Thank you very much for your posts to last week's question! It sounds as though many of us have important people in our lives.
I would like you to use this week's blog to explain how you considered your audience in your narrative. Who were you imaging as your audience? What message were you trying to convey to this audience? How does your narrative answer the question, "So what?" Explain your answer in detail.
Good work so far!
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I have a story that could be told to anyone as my audience. I envisioned this class as my audience. I think that i have a meaning full story because i talk about my connection with a little girl who looks up to me, and then i couldn't see her anymore because her dad and I were not getting along.
It is meaning full to other people whos familys are split up.
When I was writing this essay, I was imagining you and the students reading it. I knew that possibly the whole class would read it. I wanted to impact some people's lifes. I wanted to make a strong point and let everyone think of their lifes. Think of who is important, what is important, and what they want out of life. I know it was a sad story, but I wanted to emotionally touch you. This story has so much meaning behind it. People die everyday and it is tradgic, but in my story i explain why it's so horrible and I tell you what i got out of it. It was a horrible experience and I got something good out of it. I also made a impact on others i hope..
When I was writing this story I was imagining that the whole class was my audience. I wanted to make a strong impact on everyone. I wanted to show everybody how difficult a divorce can be, and just live each day to the fullest, because you never know when the people that you love will be out of your lives forever.
-Bob Harsin
In my narrative I would say that I was writing to high school students. My narrative could also be told to anyone who has lost friends. It is telling them of my last few weeks of school and how things change. It tells people that throughout your life you will have many different friends. You will lose some friends, but you will always have the memories of them to cherish.
Jenny Evans
When I wrote my narrative, my audience is anyone who is looking to buy a vehicle. My message to the audience is to do the needed research and to be patient, so that one knows what kind of deal one is getting. The narrative answers the so what by me being patient and not buying the first vehicle I liked. If I had done that, I would have bought a vehicle that was older and with higher mileage on it. Because I waited, I now have a newer vehicle with lower mileage. I am certain that I got myself a good deal.
-Shawn Martin
As I was writing my narrative, I thought of my audience as being young and people who are trying to figure out a certain lesson in life. I hope my readers understand that life lessons don't just pop infront of them, but that you have to learn what that lesson is. I also hope my audience can see that learning can be difficult but you can always fight your way through. When someone corrects your wrong doing, take it and learn from it. I feel my essay is something fun and interesting to read and you will get something out of it.
~Samantha Duryee
I wrote my memory paper considering my classmates to be my audience. The lesson from my memory paper, although personal to me, was easily shared with a general audience. I wanted to communicate with them a truth that I had discovered about the nature of people because I think it has value to many. People are just people regardless of what position they hold in life. I have found it helpful to always keep that in mind because it removes some of the unnecessary anxiety around certain social interactions. I do not want to imply that I am totally at ease meeting any new person, but I do try to put this experience to use to minimize my discomfort in new situations. I believe that we often worry about being judged by others and draw conclusions based on what we think the other person will think of us. This type of activity wastes a great amount of time and energy that can get in the way of enjoying the situation at hand.
-Andrea Harken
The narrative I wrote for class is a story that I feel would be beneficial to anyone who tries to multi-task while driving or drives wrecklessly. Although it could pertain to anyone at any age, I imagine people in their teens and twenties getting the most out of hearing my story. My story answers the question, "so what?" by explaining what I learned from my experience and how it has affected my life from that point, on. My story transitions from the importance of driving safely for the sake of yourself and other drivers, to the importance of valuing your life enough to do so.
--Candace Daiker
When I wrote my narrative I was going after an audience that was more sports related. My message that I was trying to convey to my audience was that even in the most unfavorable circumstances you can still prevail. It answers the question, "So what?" in a way that I honestly don't know.
- Kris Edwards
In my narrative i believe my main audience were my classmates. Because my narrative was focusing on myself breaking off of my whole family and trying to explore and take on the world alone. Thats why i believe my narrative related more to the college students in my class because many of them are going through these things right now. However, i believe my narrative can relate pretty much to anyone seeking an adventure, or something in that nature. I wanted this paper to influence the students in a positive way.The message being that no matter what are the circumstances anyone can make it on their own.~Sheyla Zegarrra
My narrative considered my audience in that it was a colorful representation of an actual experience I had. My story is lightly humorous and paints an interesting picture of what childbirth is truly like.
In the narrative I wrote for class the audience that I had in mind were mainly teens, and young adults. I wanted my audience to understand that the story I wrote about really had a big impact on me, and that now I cherish my friends a lot. My narrative was mainly about friendship, and how sometimes certain situations that we might have to go thru can distance us a lot. The important thing about all this is that if we really want the friendship to continue we must give it our best. I explained how certain people we meet through out our life will change our life forever. I’m sure that everyone has friends, and can understand what I’m trying to say. Hopefully they could see the sacrifices, the values, and the loyalty I was talking about in my narrative.
Karla Baez
When I was writing this narrative essay, i was imagining my whole classmate as a audience. I don't think I am a only one international student but i know most student are frme here. So i want to they know about how diffcult homesickness. Because sometime, they will go out of this country and they will have homesickness. I think my experience of homesikness will help them someday.
-Ho Soung-
When I was writing my narrative essay; I pictured the class as my audience. I wrote about my grandfather, who had a stroke. He was healthy one day I talked to him and the next day he was lying in the hospital tying to get better. The older you get the more you realize time is a huge factor in this world. We don’t live forever and those around us don’t either. Something horrible could happen to the ones closes to you in a heartbeat. If you don’t make time for those closest to your heart, you may have many regrets throughout your life. Make time for those closest to you.
My narrative essay targets the crowd that wants to read about a football story. I hope to attract them with the aspect of football, but leave them wanting to make stronger commitments to things they love. The so what in my story shows how when I played football without commitment, we still did well but it was just a game, when I committed myself to it, it became a part of me, that I will be involved in for the rest of my life.
In my narrative I was writing to anyone who has had problems with a parents' divorce, or problems from losing a loved one. I wanted to show that no matter what you do, the only person you can control is yourself. A person can really benefit from knowing that. It took me a long time to learn how much that matters. I have now known for awhile that you can't expect too much from everyone. You can expect everything from yourself though.
-Rebecca Peterson
My Narrative Essay didn't focus on any certain kind of audience. I was focused on a general audience. But my message behind the story was a very powerful message. I hope any one who has lost some one close will take my lesson, and use it to their advantage. ~Shayla Stephenson
I just imagined telling it to someone I just met. Assuming they knew nothing about me or what has happened. It just seemed like the logical thing to do. Because I know most of the people in my class aren't from Boone or even remember my name to this day. I'm not kidding I assume they don't know me. But the story was something that changed everything about me so I wanted to make sure it would sound right to anyone that read it.
~Tyler Lurvey~
In my narrative i was writing about the relationship that i never really had with my father.I envisioned the class as my audience but i feel anyone could understand where i was coming from. I bascially was letting out alot of built up aggression i had toward him. I wanted to let him know that yeah he wasnt around and i made it with out him. So thats where i feel i answered the so what.-Raynell Burton
When writing my story, I was imagining my audience to be any one that has lost a loved one. My story happened in high school so I guess I could be writing to that audience too. I believe my story answers the question “So what?” by explaining that if you put your mind to something, you can do anything.
Cory Van Pelt
The audience i think i was getting out to would be anyone who has not experienced the outdoor life. I imagined my readers to really put themselves into my story so they could imagine it for themselves. I was also trying to tell the audience to find a way to spend time with your family and enjoy accomplishments in life. I hope my meaning of my essay got out to people who read it.
Jay jensen
For my narrative story I imagined my class as my audience. My story is conveing that I was able to stay calm in an intense situation. I was hoping that I would get a message across to someone. The message that maybe they could take in next time they were in a hard dilema. This narrative answers the so what of me being patient and calm during a situation that might happen to someone else.
-Caity Mills
I am using my church as my audience telling them that the Lord wanted me to survive the fire and He wanted me to be closer to Him. Everyday since the fire I think He wants me to find out who I am and what I am supposed to do. My church listens to what people have to say because they care about others
When I wrote my essay, it was for anyone, but more like people who didnt know what to do with there live and tells what alternative I took to achieve my goals in life. In my essay, the biggest momnet for me was capping my beret on my head, telling me that I faced my fears and achieved a goal in life, thats succeeding on my own. My "So What" question is where leave and say "So what".
Jason Carter
The audience for my narrative was general. Anyone interested in reading my story and discovering "the pit". I was trying to not only share my story but to inform my readers of the incredible epiphany that I had as it relates to the experience, with the hope that they too would value and learn from their "pit" experiences. I answer the question "So What", in this narrative by sharing my discovery during my first "pit" experience and sharing how the insight gained encourages the reader to do so as well.
Ilsa Evans
I believe that my narrative could be told to anyone. I think that it is a very open narrative, and that any reader would get the same message from it. I never imagined a certain audience, honestly I was just trying to make my paper flow fluidity. I think that the letter I wrote was directly targeting you, the teacher, as my audience though.
oh by the way, the previous comment was by aaron dooley, sorry forgot to write my name on it
In my story I was trying to get my audience to see how I changed. I wanted my story to be entertaining. I wanted them to see how I changed from being cocky to humble. I wanted my audience to see that I kind of had an epiphany. Like after a point of my football career I saw how people were looking at me and I wanted to change. MY story might help other people, because they might be cocky, and see what happened to me. That might cause them to be more humble.
In my story I was trying to get my audience to see how I changed. I wanted my story to be entertaining. I wanted them to see how I changed from being cocky to humble. I wanted my audience to see that I kind of had an epiphany. Like after a point of my football career I saw how people were looking at me and I wanted to change. MY story might help other people, because they might be cocky, and see what happened to me. That might cause them to be more humble.
Jovan Creighton
I would consider the audience for my story to be anybody who has graduated from high school or who has had a relative graduate from high school. I think that my story could have also been intended for anybody because it was a topic that many people could relate to. I wanted people to remember what it was like for them, or make them feel like they were there. I feel that I did a fair job at accomplishing that. I also wanted people to see how I saw my graduation day through my own eyes and actions as I described in my narrative essay.
--Jordan Troup--
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