Your first weekly journal assignment is simple and straightforward:
– Who is the narrator of your story? What does s/he know? What sort of approach will s/he take toward the reader? How will the narrator speak?
– Who are some of the characters in the story? What can you tell us about them? What are their backgrounds? What are their likes and dislikes? Who are they close with? What do they want most in life?
Post your thoughts in the box below.
ENG 102 @ LaGuardia CC 
I’m going to write my story in third person. I’m going to narrate the hard life of a young girl in 1776. The characters of my story are Mary that is the main character, Saul her father, Ines her mother, Frederick the pattern and Andy Mary’s brother. Mary family are poor they have to work to have something to eat without receiving any money. They are African American and they are mistreated and discriminated. What they want is have freedom and rights.
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I will use a 3rd person as narrators of my story. What She and he know is that they personally are living the story. The narrators will approach this story to let readers know that life is strange and it’s not always how they want. The characters of the story will be mostly husband and wife. What I can tell you is that he is a perfect husband. And she beg to love him one day. They were born in a country side of Mexico. They are very respectful. They both like to be together, They never get bored from each other. He hates lies. she lies to make him happy. Both of them want to live their lives together forever.
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The story is going to be in first person narration. There will be two main characters in the story, two young adult females living on their own house for the first time. Both characters are based off me and my friend however, the events that surround the two characters are fictional. Both characters in the story are going to experience the joys and hardship of being on their own for the first time.
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Hello Matt,
I am unsure what to write about, but I am interesting in something related to riding the subway everyday. I like to see what people do while they are riding it and I find many strange things that happen there. Obviously, I will add something that gives my story some fiction, but I am trying to organize my ideas to see what I want.
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The narrator of my story will be the third person. I don’t think s/he will know about it because I will not use the real people in my story. However, I haven’t decided what kind of story I want to write. I’m thinking to develop my story based on some Japanese anime, Korean drama, and American drama’s backgrounds since I watched them a lot. Also, I will use their characters as my story’s narrator. My idea is that while I watched those shows, there was always something big happened to push the story forward. Yet, it is not always good. It may be someone died for the war, or illness. As a matter of fact, I’m thinking WHAT IF the tragedy has not happened, and that may be the story which I want to talk about.
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I am going to use first person narrator but I don’t have specific story guideline yet. I may write about ordinary usual daily life but different point of view. little small detail things with close attention would be different.
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I will use third person narrator in my story. The main characters are narrator and his some friends. He goes back to the past to start all over again. He knows everything about future. If he changed one thing, even a small thing, the future will be change. He knows who is a good person and who isn’t. He knows what bad things will be happen, if he should try to stop them? That a difficult decide. His friends give him some revelations and they are together with him. Finally,, he finds what is the important thing in his life.
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I will be using the main character as a first person narrator and having him interact with the other characters.My story will consist of the earth in 2030, and the story revolves around these teenagers who are sent by the government up to a station in outer space to train with advance weaponry and explore other planets to try and find different life forms,natural resources, and survive with doing so.Everyone on earth thinks they get chosen randomly but theres something that connects why each teenager is chosen, but I’m still deciding on that part as it ties with all they’re character traits/backrounds/ and development including the main character who is very lost at his point in life but is also very hot headed, but in a way redeemable.
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I am going to use the first-person narrator or third-person narrator in my story, maybe the main character could be my friend or someone. However, I still not sure what kind of the story I will write. In order to make the reader pay more attention on my story, I will try my best to do it.
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The two stories from the reading assignment persuade me to write following their authors’ styles. I am very interested to practice the three-dimensional characters in my story which will be -in some how- about “Arab Spring” . Right now I am still building my characters so I can’t be more specific, next time I might add more detail about them.
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I am going to write my story in first-person narrator. As a girl, I will make the narrator a boy. I am not sure that I will give him a name. He is a high school student who is in the eleventh grade but doesn’t work hard on study. In a Maths exam, he cannot finish the questions, so he struggles and regrets. Finally, he realizes that he needs to study hard. Maybe he will change, or maybe he won’t. In the test I will put some other characters to enrich the main character’s inside world.
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I might use first person and third person in my story but I have no idea what to write about now. Later, I will build up several guidelines which one is more interest and easily to develop. So everything is undecided now.
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I’m still undecided about what I want to write about. I do know that my story will be written in 3rd person. I am still in the process of developing the plot setting and characters of my story. When I am more sure of I want to write about I will let you know.
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Short Story : Narrator and character : The above two short stories persuades me to write a short story of my own . First person will be the narrator of my story . There will be different characters in my story . I am still not sure the actual fiction plot of the story. I think this would be a non- realistic fiction story . I am thinking and will come in a conclusion very soon.
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Actually, I didn’t know what I will be writing. I think I am going to write my story in first-person narrator. May be I use three characters in my story. I am trying to write interesting story.
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Before today, I had no ideas with my story. But today my classmate helped me to think about it, and she also identified that I can write down a story like a fairy tale. Then I found that I can write down a “dream”. In my story, I will use the third-person narrator for the main plot, and at the end story I may change it. To be honestly, now I didn’t know what will happen in the story, I will totally think about it and try to make it interesting.
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I will use third person narrator to write my story. There will be mainly two characters involved in the story. The story will be like the moment in part of their life. Something like “Cigarette break”.
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both story talking about the love really love in side their heard the person not just taking with out nothing I like both story their are interesting no name in the character in both short story.
Than one story it was taking about man look for perfect woman 100% and another story was taking about the woman love man , but when he spend a lot of time with her he thanking she is not sexy as he guessed it would be and she saw him with another woman .then in the first one man he is honest ,but the second story his actually he is not honest .
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I will be using first person or second person narrator in my story. I am not sure what i am going to write about but i want to write some thing interesting that everyone will like and i will let u know soon.
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I’m unsure as to what I want to write about for my short story. I do know that I want to write it as a third person narrative. I’ll keep you updated as new ideas start developing.
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Based on my previous reading, I’m still confused which person narrator i will get based on, i feel i have so many scattered interesting ideas, i just need some time to focus and build an enjoyable story …
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My story is going to be third person. I’m going to write a short story about 3 friends. They grew up together. They made plan for future which didn’t workout. One tragic accident separated them.
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rula abu shairah
September 22, 2014 at 2:08 am
love story (short story)
the mean character was: Ail he is Moorish he is black man he was general in the venetion military ,he love Sally so much he can’t leave with out her .He is going to his father and asked her father for her hand in marriage ,but her father refuse to this marriage.
Ail is referred to as a Barbary horse and he is Arabic lascivious moor he denounces Sally supposed sin as being black as mine own face .He is dark skin and Mike tells brabantio her father that an old black ram is tapping your white ewe than Sally (she is whiter skin of hers than snow.
the second character :Sally she is rich woman ,she white woman ,she love a black man from Moorish, her father refuse to leave her to marry Ail then she decided to left the castle and she is goes to live with Ail .then sally decided to marry Ail .then in the end of the story Ail killed Sally because he thinking she tricks him .and she is cheating him with his beast friends in the end of the story he knows the truth Sally didn’t cheating him .He kill him self .
the third character Mike: he is evil he hate Ail and he try to kill him many time ,but he can’t .Then he try to destroyed Ail’s life Mike hates Ail for promoting a young man named Tony a bove him and tells Amir that he plans to use Ail for his own advantage .Mike was also angry because he belives ,or at least gives the pretence of belief that Ail slept with his wife mary.
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can you give me new idea about this story? 2) what is your opinion about my story?3)are you like the beginning of the story or not ? than are you like the end of the story?
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questions:
how should the story end?
is there enough details or does it need more?
is the begging of the story good or could it be better ?
the story:
A dark night in a small city where one can see only the lights given by the apartments in the buildings. As time began to pass one can see the lights being turned off one after the other. All the lights were turned off except for one. In that apartment lived a family: a man, his wife and their son. Their light were on because of them abusing their son. It didn’t start that night, but it has always been like that. The man was an alcoholic named jimmy. The wife, Shawna, was addicted to drugs. The son, Jack, was by that night seventeen years old. Jack’s face was always filled with peruses and scars. Jack was never allowed to go out of the house, so normally he suffered severe disorders and depression.
That night jack was watching a show when his dad came home after a late night of drinking. Opening the door, jimmy got so mad to see jack watching a show and not in bed. So jimmy went to his room and got out his whip. Of course, knowing what was going to happen, jack ran to his room and hid under his cover. But that did not stop jimmy from grabbing his leg from under the cover and pulling him out. Jimmy started whipping jack on each inch of his body. Jack kept his hand on his face so that jimmy wouldn’t whip his face. Frustrated from jack, jimmy throws the whip and starts punching jack in the face. Jimmy got tired so he told his son to go to sleep and that his mother would deal with him tomorrow. Jimmy went to sleep next to his wife leaving jack alone in his room filled with anger and frustration.
As I said that this abusing didn’t start that night, but it was the case all along. However, this night was different. Thinking about the next day, jack had had enough so he went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. He sneaked into his parent’s room. He stood at the top of the bed next to his father’s face looking at him with hatred. His hands were shaking, his body was trembling, but his mind was determined. He took the knife and put it on his father’s throat and sliced. Feeling the knife go through his neck, Jimmy woke up. He grabbed jack’s arm, but had no power to do anything. Jack looked into his father’s eyes in silence and didn’t feel sorry for him. Shawna woke up to see blood everywhere and jack holding a knife. She screamed and tried to run, but jack caught her before she could even go out of the room. He grabbed her from her back, had his hand over her mouth and stabbed her in the stomach. Then he carried her and threw her on the bed next to her husband. Jack knew what he did was wrong, but it didn’t matter to him. It’s like he lost the ability to feel or the ability to differentiate what is right from what is wrong.
After killing his parents, jack calmly left the building thinking about how awful parents are. This lead him to decide that he would kill any parent who he thought treated his or her kids the same way he was treated.
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Analyzing my story – Spark of anger-
Like I claimed before, one of the reading assignment persuaded me to practice the three-dimensional characters in my fiction story. I tried to create characters from different places and time but are related to each other by sharing similar ordeals and the same dream, which is living with dignity. I changed the places using the main character who is talking about himself as a watcher(ghost), than changed the time, place, for the same character using ” He” where the narrator tells us his story while he was still alive, In the last part of this paragraph I changed the subject from the ” HE to I ” using the smell description. After I turned the story to ” You” story style that I learned from one of the reading assignment, which was a good practicing for me.
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My story is based on two friends who experienced different situations. They decided to narrated to each other.I used to titles” Deception”, and ” Everything is for a reason”. First I used a dialogue between a narrator and the tree, and in the other story it was just a smooth narration of events. the both boys ended up by having a furious dream.
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