Intellectual Growth
English Class
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• Standard: 2.1 Write fictional or (auto) biographical narratives
• Assignment Name: Slaughter House Five Travel Story
• Objective: To make up your own character with a life timeline and than write a short story explaining events that happened in their life but in a non-linear form using varied sentence patterns..• Prompt: How can I continue to grow as a writer, learner, student, or intellectual?
lalalaAfter reading Slaughter-House Five, a novel, we had to make a timeline about a made-up character of our own. The timeline started from birth to death, than we had to follow the same time order as in the book, writing in a non- linear form. I wrote my story about my character Cash Giant in which my story started at the point where he is at his mother's funeral, because she has just died. From that moment, he jumps into his childhood when he’s remembering riding the bicycle, than jumps to his 30’s, than wakes up in his girlfriend house. The story is always jumping from one moment to another, but with a huge difference in ages like from 8 years old to 30, to 22, and like that. The novel Slaughter-House Five would also go from one scene to another while the narrator would be remembering one moment in the war and the other one about a person he knew similarly.
lalalaI can continue to grow as a student, writer, and intellectual because I have learned that time and order is important, and that the world does not always happen in a linear way, just as in the book. We may be watching the TV and than what you are watching may remind you of when you were a child and than a sudden thought pops up in your mind. In every day life we live in a linear way, because we have to keep everything in order or people would turn crazy, because they would not know what they have to get done later. But when we have to write about what we know or have learned and relate it to a book, novel, or movie, we also have to use a linear form of thinking or else we would get all confused and our ideas would not make sense to the reader. But writing in a non-linear form often makes the story more interesting, because you have the reader guessing what’s going on and what’s going to happen next.
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