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Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence

In this example of a personal narrative, Paul describes his childhood throughout all the chapters in his book. By using settings and characters that readers could really follow, they could connect with the situations more. The readers become sympathetic towards the main character, who has problems with his peers. This inspires me to create my own narrative for people to see how certain situations and problems affect myself and my life.

Roller Boogie

"Roller Boogie", is a chapter is author, Rob Sheffield's book, Love is a Mixed Tape. In this chapter he remembers his love of music, especially rock and roll. When he was a teen, he made mixed tapes for all the school dances. He was so obsessed with music, he didnt really have time to take life seriously. We all wish to have that spontanious attitude when we get older, because sometimes we forget whats its like to be care-free when we grow older.

The Republic of East LA

This personal narrative example is about a limo driver, who goes back to his old neighborhood to embark on his childhood. He remembers the lessons he learned while living here, and knows that he uses them in the present time. He likes his job as a driver because he likes driving by and observing. I'm inspired to tell my story because I want people to know where I learned my most vaulable and important lessons.

The OC: The Road Warrior

In this scene, Summer and Marissa discuss the topics of voiceovers. Summer records herself talking and makes a voiceovers, so she can listen to herself talk about her life. Marissa doesnt understand why Summer is listening to herself talk, and Summer responds they make life more dramatic.

High-School Confidential: Cappie and Lauren

Lauren and Cappie, start off in the episode in their senior year in high school. Throughout the episode, they show video clips and interviews from previous years in high school. By seeing this, you see how these individuals changed during their journeys throughout these four years. You see how they dealt with peer pressure, medical emergencies, and relationships. It was very interesting to see these girls point of view of their high school experiences.

This American Life- My Way

This episode shows three young people who all have certain unique ways of living their lives. The first character, Joe, lives in a world of medival times. He feels that love is useless, because he never wants to feel the pain of heart-break. The next character, Brad, is a political figure who believes souly in the truth, because thats what brings him the most joy. The next character, Marcus is a photographer who captures some of peoples most intense moments on film. All of these characters are unigue and different and deal with life in their own personal way.

This American Life- God's Close Up

In this video example of a personal narrative, the two main characters showed importance of their faith, by looking at biblical scenes. One lived in Utah, where the population consitsts mostly of mormons. He is a painter who looks for men with long beards and long hair, which most mormons dont have. The second character is an atheist, but her father is a devoted Christian. Even though, she doesnt believe in God, she likes to paint biblical figures. And one day her father hopes she connects to God one day.

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My So Called Life: Pilot

In this example of a personal narrative, the main character lives with her mom,dad, and sister. She deals with problems at home and high school by hanging out with a new crowd, trying new things, dying her hair, and leaving her best friend. After watching this, I want to show my narrative to show people how I deal with my frustrations too.

What Is Important To Me

What is important to me? In normal conversations we don’t hear that subject brought up very often. There are many important things in my life that I wouldn’t be anywhere without. My friends and family mean the world to me, but I wouldn’t be anything without my dreams and goals. They are what keep me going everyday and inspire me to keep living my life the way I want to. My goals and dreams give me purpose to live my life. Most people don’t have plans or aspirations for their future, but I do and that puts me a step ahead of most people my age. My parents as well supporting my goals are also very important to me. I have my own dreams and they accept that instead of pushing their own dreams on me. My goals in life are what’s most important to me, and always will be.

My Story

Alyssa Renard, 18
Movin On Up

As seniors we always get asked the common questions: What school are you going to? What do you want to do with your life? What are your goals? My answer is always a little bit different than everyone else’s. Most of my peers will be off to a four year university, saying goodbye to their parents, and starting their new independent lives. On the other hand my plan is to go to a community college while working toward my dream in becoming a professional dancer.
Every time I tell someone my plan, I always get the same response. Individuals tell me that I should really think about my options. But the truth is I have. I’ve thought about this long and hard, weighing my positive and negative aspects of my plan and the plan everyone else has for me. The way it came down to was, I know if I didn’t give my dream a fair shot, I would’ve always wondered what could have been. In all the things I want for myself in life, one of them is not regret.
I was starting to feel very discouraged when everyone was doubting my goals for the future, being a long shot. But then the fire starts burning under my feet, driving me to keep going. I have a great support system at home and at my second home, my dance studio. I know I’m going to get beaten up inside and out, and I’m going to deal with it using grace and strength. I’ve become the person I am today by using the lessons I’ve learned at home, but mostly the lifelong lessons I’ve learned while dancing. Perseverence, strength, fight, and drive will keep me going in everyday situations throughout my life. So the next time someone asks me what I’m doing in the future and their response is a negative one, I will brush it off and say,” I’ll buy you front row tickets when I make it big”, and leave with a smile, my self confidence booming.

Wings for Wheels: Making of Born to Run

In this personal narrative, in the form of a documentary, it describes artist Bruce Springsteen's journey to creating one of his songs, "Born to Run". During this video we got to see the the steps to making his song, and why it took as long as it did to make it just perfect. Springsteen's friends, family, and co-workers also talked about him as a person and his work ethic. After watching this, I realized how long it takes just to create one song. It was very interesting and entertaining.

Personal Narrative: My LA

Alyssa Renard, 18
Los Angeles

Late at night, I crawl into my bed and turn on the TV. There is a documentary on the people who live on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. As I watch this program, I remember a trip I took with my Girl Scout troop. We were going to go downtown and give people on the streets and shelters scarves that we had made for them. While we were in the car driving, I remember being a little scared of how the homeless would react towards would react towards my troop and I.
Getting out of the car, it smelled different than where I live in the San Fernando Valley: dirty, unclean, B.O., odor, and other things that made my nose twitch. Walking into the shelter smelled a little bit better, but not as much. The people were very grateful, and showed us respect and gratitude. Even the people on the streets who had nothing, were very nice and accepting people. Walking around I realized how lucky I was to have the things that I’ve been given. After this experience, we went ice skating in an open rink downtown. I felt so free skating around right in the center of downtown Los Angeles. Here I was freely skating in a nice area, but just 10 minutes away was the shelter I had just visited. LA is home to many diverse groups of people, being very accepting and open to anyone who walks on its streets.

Juan Rodriguez: Running

In this personal narrative written by Juan Rodriguez, he remembers the way running makes him feel by watching a sports movie. While watching the movie he doses off and actually thinks he is running in the streets of LA. Every place he sees, food he eats, and people he sees, he documents in his memory. He wakes up and finds himself in his bed, then this being no more of a hallucination. His great descriptions make you feel like you can see what he is actually seeing. This narrative reveals how the things that people enjoy are always on their mind.

Steve Abee: The Bus

In this personal narrative by author, Steve Abee, he describes every detail and thought that pops into his head while walking through the city of Los Angeles, and later on a bus ride. His style of writing is in your face, but at the same time still flows. The way he described everything little thing he say and every emotion was really very interesting. People deserve to see the world through others eyes and this narrative does just that.

Grace Habegger: The Depth of Depp

In this personal narrative, written by author, Grace Habegger, she writes about her obsession with actor Johnny Depp. Not only does she love his looks and great acting skills, but also gets inspired by his lifestyle and the character that Depp is. Being an actor, it is easy to have Johnny Depp as one of your heroes, mentors, but to Grace he is more than that. I myself find him very talented and humble as well. I too also think its a good idea that he doesn't live in the center of Hollywood. It shows a lot about his character to just go and live with his wife and kids out of the spotlight. He is definitely someone to look up to.

Saskia Boggs: Just Watch

This personal story, written by author, Saskia Boggs is about how television has effected her life throughout the years. Her whole family would be so involved with the tv that family time became watching tv instead of playing board games or even just talking. Even though she sees the problem, she doesn't get up and say anything. Its like the same in my house, we pretty much revolve around the television and our shows. This definitely needs to stop, and families need to start having real conversations again.

What Truthiness Taught Me About Being (Un) Cool

The author, Sarah Schelde, 14, writes about her obseeions with TV show host, Stephen Colbert. She remembers how much his words effected her life and inspired her. As I was reading this story I became very intrigued and interested to see how an individual gets so obsessed with a television show. She stood by her thoughts even though people thought she was obsessed and crazy. I was able to visualize her story through her little details and quirky comments. Her style of writing was informative but also very funny.

Appeal from an Angry Not so Emo

The author, Kali Moriarty, 15 writes about the struggles young teens go through when verbally abused. She remembers waking up and feeling amazing, and then coming home from school feeling worn out by all the hatful words said by her fellow classmates. I can relate to this story because I see fellow students at this school getting verbally abused everyday. I could visualize her story well because I've seen the same things in my own life. Her little jokes and sense of humor really made the story personal.