Rhetorical Situations-Narratives

In Class Lab: Literacy Narrative

 

1. “When she opened the front door, the whole street looked like a river, and water poured in. She described it as ‘Rushing like the Colorado River’.” (pg.129 Paragraph 6)
2. “ Because of him I can quote, ‘If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you’ (Kipling lines 1-2), ‘And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose’ (Housman lines 11-12), ‘I grow old…I grow old… / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled’ (Eliot lines 120-21)” (Pg133 Paragraph 4)
3. “She was unable to shut the door against the brown rushing water. Horrified, she tried not to panic. Seeking higher ground, she climbed on top of her dining room table.” (Pg. 129 Paragraph 7)
4. Possible topics
   1. When I first started reading
   2. When I started to enjoy writing
   3. What book made me fall in love with reading
   4. How books made me fall in love with writing

 

1. I want to write tell this story not only to fulfill this assignment but to share the memory of why I love reading and what initially caused me to fall in love with it.
2. My audience is fairly likely to have the same experience as me and could probably end up telling close to the same stories. I don’t think I would have to do too much explaining for my audience to understand my narrative. I don’t know if they will share the same attitude, it just depends on what they enjoy.
3. The attitude I want to project is sincere and affectionate towards reading. I want readers to understand that I thoroughly love and enjoy reading.
4. My narrative will be in print, possibly with pictures that could help readers understand visually what I’m trying portray.
5. When I think of my narrative I just think of sitting on the couch with a blanket and my book with a slightly dimmed light next to a window occasionally glancing at the dark starry sky outside.
6. When I picture my story I don’t hear anything other than my mind bringing the words on the pages to life in my mind.
7. I smell fresh air from my window that’s opened up next to me.
8. I feel curious and excited to find out what will happen next in my books.
9. I don’t taste anything.
10. The only person that’s really in this narrative is me and im usually squinting from being so into what im reading, I can see perfectly well.
11. “Mom do you think we could stop by Barnes and Noble on the way home?”, I said as I exit the Bremerton YMCA.
    “Why? Didn’t you just buy a book a few days ago?”, She replied sarcastically.
    “I already finished it.”, I say with a proud grin