First-Person Narrative Essay Examples

A human being contains a lot of qualities. Like feelings which is a very big part of a human. We can feel happiness, sorrow, anger but we can also feel the conscience and the guilt. Anger can result in bad behavior and bad behavior can result in the feeling of guilt. No matter what we […]

Towards the end of the novel as Vernon faces the death penalty for a crime he didn’t commit, he has an outer body experience. The ending is indefinite as the reader is left questioning whether Vernon is alive or dead. The uncertainty of Vernon’s fate is worth exploring.From chapter twenty-six onwards, a chain of events […]

Plot: I believe that the plot in this book is a very true to life plot, and I actually very much enjoyed the way that it was told and laid out, because the book’s whole theme was very realistic and believable. I cannot even imagine being Melinda and having to deal with something as horrible […]

Duffy very cleverly in “The World’s Wife” gets famous myths and tales from the past and turns them around making them have a totally different meaning to their originals. Duffy refers to the women in “The World’s Wife” as victims or outcasts. Duffy modernises the poems on a contemporary basis. In this way Duffy shows […]

The texts chosen for this study are: ‘The Pit and The Pendulum’ by Edgar Allan Poe and ‘An Encounter’ by James Joyce which, I feel, are appropriate as they provide comprehensive coverage of the themes analysed whilst managing to cover a historical period of some seventy years1. Poe’s piece is a dark, Gothic work which […]

Connecting with others is a natural and frequent occurrence in our daily lives. The author Isabel Huggan depicts the agony caused by societal and psychological restrictions that hinder our attempts to assimilate with the majority in Celia Behind Me. Through a poignant and straightforward first-person narrative, insightful characterization, situational ironies, and powerful imagery, Huggan establishes […]

This essay focuses on two stories: “The signalman” written in the 1800s and “Lamb to the Slaughter” written in the 1900s. In this text, I will analyze and compare two stories in terms of their style, content, and language. Specifically, Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” effectively uses descriptive adjectives to establish the story’s setting and […]

“ Lady’s Maid “ is a short-story written by a Katherine Mansfield , a famous British writer , was first published in 1920 . It is the final story in the 1922 collection of her work, The Garden Party and Other Stories. The writer is well known for her psychological stories. In the “ Lady’s […]

“The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” is an interpretation of a traditional folktale, “Beauty and the Best”. There are some aspects that make this story different from the old version. Firstly, the characterization of these two stories is dissimilar. The characters in the traditional version are almost flat characters. The protagonist, Belle, is completely good; lovely […]

Imaginative writing is an art that expresses ideas and thoughts in an imaginative way. This art involves universal laws of human nature, and both time and place. Without connecting the reader through these principles, the author’s work is somewhat meaningless. In order for the author to gain something through his/her work, the author must be […]

These two poems have a lot of similarities and differences between them. “Charge of the Light Brigade” is a pro war poem and shows admiration for the young men, it is a third person narrative based on the Crimean war from 1854-1856. “Dulce et Decorum est” shows concern for the men that are risking their […]

“Fat” is a story within a story, told from the point of view of a waitress, one of those discontented ordinary people, who live in Raymond Carver’s fictions. The story-within-a-story structure told through a very sparse and very lean prose style that contrasts with its theme of bodily (obesity) and emotional (depression) excess frame the […]

The Mortal Immortal was quite different than past assigned readings for several reasons. First, it was a short story rather than a long-winded, descriptive novel. This appealed to me because that, in itself, shows a turn to the modern side of literature. Gone are the days of praising the sublime and merely hinting at characters […]

Ghost stories have fear in them, twists to the story, they have strange characters. Ghost stories are generally set in haunted houses or castles or derelict places. A ghost story is Gloomy and tells the reader of sounds and dingy colours. Sounds that make you scared and make your arm hairs stand up, howls of […]

The story “The Wife’s Story” is about the tale of the werewolf but vice versa, instead of seeing everything from the human’s point of view it shows it in the werewolf’s perspective. The author of this is Ursula K. Le Guin and she did a fantastic job writing this. Its odd how she reversed the […]

In the novel, ‘How I Live Now’ by Meg Rosoff, the protagonist Daisy was thrust into an entirely different environment; a new country, a new family and the threat of impending war. Daisy faced and overcame many challenges during her time in London, which caused her character to grow and develop significantly. The author portrayed […]

Cut, By Patricia McCormick, is a fine example of why some young adult fiction deserves literary serious consideration. As a first person account Cut is not only the story of a young adult’s journey through a mental illness, it also serves as a guide to help others find solutions to their own mental problems. The […]

Drinking underage is not something a person jokes about; but Frank O’Connor story “The Drunkard” is a story about Larry, a kid, who gets drunk, but does it for a good cause. In the story O’Connor uses first person point of view, irony and humor to make this story more entertaining. The narrator is Larry […]

In Sherman Alexie’s, “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” an alcoholic, homeless Indian sets out on a quest to win back his grandmother’s stolen regalia. The main character and narrator, Jackson Jackson, stumbles upon his stolen family heirloom in a pawnshop window and proceeds to spend the next day trying to earn enough money to […]

Ever since the beginning of human race, meat has been a primary source of food. From our ancestors hunting animals for meat, to our generation going into a fast food restaurant and ordering a cheeseburger, meat has always been a huge part of our food consumption. Today there are certain groups that look at meat […]

1. From what point of view is Poe’s story told and why is this view particularly effective for this story? The story is being told from a first person narrative point of view. Poe chooses the first person narration to give the reader a better level of understanding of the characters emotion, mental state and […]