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作为留学生做常见的essay，也是由很多种不同类型的，例如reflective essay、critical essay、Description Essay、Classification Essay等等，还有我们今天要讲的Narrative Essay（叙事性essay）。从内容上讲，这种essay类似于我们常见作文“一件难忘的事”，就是通过叙述自己的经历，来讲述道理或者阐述观点。既然要写经历，就相当于讲故事，人物、背景、情节等要素必不可少，让多数留学生倍感头痛。下面小编就带大家看看Narrative Essay具体怎么写，最后还精选了一篇范围共大家参考。 1.什么是Narrative Essay？ Narrative Essay，根据来自Google的定义：“A narrative essay is a story written about a personal experience. Writing a narrative essay provides an opportunity to get to know and understand yourself better. One of the best ways to reveal who you are is to write about how you became aware of something, gained a new way of seeing the world, a new insight.” Narrative Essay写作基于一定的个人经验，和读者分享某些经历、某些事情，通常从作者的角度，提供读者参与故事的各种细节和元素，开展叙述。在这个过程中通过思考，写作者获得更好的观察视野和洞察力。Narrative Essay通常在文章的开篇或者第一段的最后一句中提出这篇essay写作的目的（或观点）。 由于Narrative Essay依赖于个人的经验，所以一般按照story的形式写作，按照通常的格式包含：情节、人物、背景、高潮和结束。并且通常情况下，Narrative Essay需要包含大量的细节来使故事丰满，这些细节也是为了支持作者的主要观点。 2.Narrative Essay写作要点 （1）Narrative Essay的内容： ①包含组成完整故事的所有要素； ②从特定的视角或角度开展叙述； ③有明确的写作目的或者观点； ④细节！细节！细节！ ⑤使用生动的动词和形容词； ⑥呈现吸引人的冲突、对比、变化等情节； ⑦可以包含对话； ⑧一般使用第一人称（但第三人称也可以使用）。 （2）主题的选择 在任何时间，任何地点，在你的身上可能都有着不同寻常的故事，而你自己却可能没有注意到。你需要认真回想你自己的过往经历，你的每次经历可能都是一个潜在的好故事： ①你有没有某些信念因为某个事情或者某些事情破裂？你能回忆到随着这一系列事情导致信念变化的过程吗？ ②有没有某次你观察到的，或者你经历的某种经历对你的生活产生了深刻的影响？ ③有没有某个人对你有很大的影响？ ④有没有某次你不得不做出某个决定的经历，或是你面对过某个巨大障碍和考验？ ⑤在你的人生中，有没有过决定做出改变面对全新未来的经历？ ⑥你每次的尝试经历是如何的？（成功？失败？可笑？痛苦？） （3）写作要点写作过程 在写作过程中，你需要注意： ①选择一件值得写的事件或者经历； ②发现事件中的相关性内容； ③挖掘细节信息，以便打动读者； ④包含完整的故事情节。 3. Narrative Essay范文欣赏
题目：Grow up in My Own Way
One summer, under the glimmering sunshine I was standing at the edge of a limpid and shallow green lake and watching my granddad to pull a large crab nest out of the lake. I was so jubilant to run over to my granddad to help him capture the crabs. The lake water was made a splash as my feet in turn ran up; yet, “Ah…” I screamed with extreme physical pain and uplifted my right feet while my left hand was carrying another crab; I noticed one of the little crabs clamped my toe. Suddenly, a flash light appeared. It was my granddad holding the camera which hanged up on his neck to take the photo on me. He laughed aloud and said to me, “Oh, my dear, you look so funny. Come. See, your gesture and your face.” For my odd motion, we all had a huge laugh. I woke up after my turn in the bed and realized it was a piece of flashback of my childhood took place in my dream. However, I perceive that each person has his or her unique childhood memory, which only belongs to them. In my experience, during the life of childhood it has occurred many events: some are gloomy, delighted, or regretful. Fortunately, I can be proud to declare I had an abundant childhood and unusual teenage years, which labeled a vital turning point in my life.I was born in Canton, a large urban center in China, and have been brought up in an ordinary but conventional Chinese family, where there are four people: my parents, my older sister, and me, a youngest girl. In my childhood, I had extensive freedom from my parents. Unlike my sister, I didn’t go to any preschool to study Chinese calligraphy or any kind of instruments in order to be the elegant girl, and I was not under strict surveillance by my parents. Inversely, as a girl I was raised with an unfettered nature style, leaving a short hair like a Tomboy and doing what I wanted to do without any constraint. In my eye, it seemed there was no distinction between a boy and a girl. Particularly, I remember my mother, who had the traditional Chinese concept that the boy is more important than the girl to a family, attempted to treat me as a complete boy. Honestly she had never bought me any lovely dress, but only boy-color Tshirt and pants. In contrast, for the girls of my generation, they had a beautiful black hair with some colorful hairpins and let their mothers dress up them as an exquisite princess. Other than my mother, my father treated me the same way as well. Obviously, every time when I needed to take the identification photo, he helped me comb the hair side partings like a standard businessman hair style. Under the traditional impact from my parents, it is the sure fact that I behaved the way completely like a boy until I went to the elementary school, where each school child started to display themselves. Thus, I struggled against the traditional gender concept of my parents, and tried to dress up the way I should be to fit in the peers of my generation.#p#分页标题#e# Even though I treated as a boy by my parents, I was fostered to be the one who is willingly to take care of and understand others by shifting role. Impressively, when I was four years old, I urged to raise a baby dog which was born a few days only. Before I came up with my idea, I had though my parents would reject my request because traditionally most Chinese parents think the immune system of growing children is weak and they need to isolate their children from pets in order to avoid some infection. Inversely my parents didn’t say no and passionately guided me how to take care of the baby dog step by step, from keeping warm to feeding with the babyuse bottle. During the process I had to think by myself about what and how to do was beneficial to the baby dog so that he could be healthier to grow up without anyillness. All of these made me enjoy the process and understand taking care of the baby dog was like to look after a real person and it was not a simple thing. Moreover, it was my first time to conceive the thought that I wanted to be a doctor, which is a willing wish from myself, not from my parents. In fact, it really impacts my future career selection. In my teenage years, I became a more mature but sensitive and impulsive girl to people and things. At that time, I could feel that my parents started to limit my freedom and tended to lecture me how to behave as a traditional Chinese woman, which they thought I should be, such as getting home on time after school and avoiding any touch with boys or not staying with them. Also, I was not allowed to walk to home with boys just in case some people would say me any rumor, which they thought unhonorable for the family. I can understand their purpose, yet sometimes I still could not calm down my impulsive emotion to have no argument with them. It was sure that all of these could keep me away from my peers. Thus, once I was in school I behaved another way which I can be myself. In addition, the years in middle school are most meaningful to me due to the fact that I met the best mentor, my professor Ms Lee. She is the first one who led me to open the door of Chemistry, is also the one who finally assists me confirm my career path. I remember when we had a chapter on the analysis of synthetic drugs, I came up with an extra question about how strong of the amount of penicillin can make the patient appear the drug allergy or even shock. She put it in her heart and we often had conversations about medicine. Hence, she specially took me to the laboratory department of a hospital, where she has a friend working in. Over there I was allowed to visit the related equipment and look up the data. Due to the firsttime real and impressive experience, it made me further prefer the occupational environment of hospital and urge to get into the medical field. However, yes I have been working hard for my goal since then. In conclusion, I cherish my preadult life, which is abundant and unique in my eyes, even though it is mixed with some incomprehensibly traditional culture. If I have children in the future, I will let them naturally grow up rather than early putting them on the box and following the general track that most people are going on. Furthermore, I have absorbed from my Chemistry teacher that real experience is more significant than what is stated in the book and if you have dreams, do everything you can do to accomplish them. It probably makes you different and someday you will not regret the decision you make and you will be proud of yourself. |
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