Formal Assignment 2: Literacy Narrative

Dear Reader

As you are progressing through the story of my literacy narrative you will come to a realization of my topic and purpose. The purpose, as you will have been able to ascertain, is the depiction of an eventful life in which communication was a large part and as such developed. The topic for which this purpose will take place is my eagle project which depicts my development of servant leadership as my form of communication. The closing message can be seen in the last paragraph where it dissects what servant leadership is to me where the story depicts that it is important to learn and empathize with the emotions of those you are leading and demonstrate you understand that change in emotions through your actions. I fulfill this by quite literally outlining it at the end of the passage. The narrative techniques I employ are many and include dialogue, character description, figurative language, and plot. They help shape the narrative because the plot progresses the story from beginning to middle and end while the character descriptions, dialogue, and figurative language provide for the filler details allowing you as the reader to get a feel for the story. The main revisions to my essay that are evident can be found in the fact that from my draft to my final copy they are entirely different. In other words, I took a few lines from my rough draft which I realized was formatted more as an essay than a descriptive story and used them as context to the eagle project origins. The main reason I made these changes came after reading my peers' essays where I realized they all depicted a complete story while mine argued the use of communication instead of intertwining the communication as a message within the story. These revisions help enhance my narrative by forcing me to actually focus on the event at hand and tell the story like I am reliving it as a dream. A dream that I was able to convey to you as the reader through a plethora of sensory details. I think the best part about my narrative is the aforementioned sensory details due to the fact that they bring the reader into the story entirely as if they were actually part of the events taking place.

Best,

Wesley Bergman