The Mythological Journey

The Mythological Journey:

A Personal Narrative

Due: Submit to turnitin.com by Sunday, August 27 by 11:59pm

Overview:

This personal narrative has no set length of pages, but in order to receive anA grade, you will have allowed your reader to understand your journey by:

Giving insight into your innocence. What did you believe? If another person/animal is involved, what was your belief about the two of you?
Allowing us to be there at the very moment of initiation. We need to see and hear what you did. Give the details that bring this very moment to life for the reader.
We need to understand your chaos. What did it look like for you? How did you act? How long did it last?
What is your new belief system….and how did you reach resolution? If you are still in chaos, what will it take to finally leave this stage?
Please note: you should not explicitly state things like, “My moment of initiation came when…” (You’d just TELL us! It should be OBVIOUS!)

Grading:

To better understand how this will be graded, please reference the followingessay requirements:

5 different uses of figurative language should be italicized (with the type of figurative language indicated in parentheses immediately following its use)

EX: Her eyes were as blue as the ocean (simile).

Show us this journey…don’t just tell us
Dialog should be included in some portion of the paper:

When characters speak, their exact language should be in quotes, and the reader should know who’s speaking, thus these rules:

Each speaker gets his or her own paragraph; a return and indent. This mimics real conversation, indicating pauses and so forth.
Attributions (“He said, “She said” and variations) should be used, but not too much, and varied so they’re not repetitious; they can be used at the start of quotes, in the middle, or at the end.
Always use a comma after attribution (She said,) when introducing a quote.

EX: When I was eight, my father dragged me into my bedroom after I lit a folded pile of his shirts on fire. I sat on the edge of the bed, not looking up, my hands folded mannerly in my lap.

“What’s wrong with you?” he asked.
“Nothing,” I said.

Appropriate paragraph breaks (this is up to you as a writer)
Well-polished final copy, almost free of errors
Final, typed hard-copy (MLA Format) is due at the start of class on Monday, August 29
Electronic copy of the final draft is due by 11:59pm on Sunday, August 28
Please note: you WILL receive a ZERO (F) if you do not have a final draft, hard-copy submitted by our deadline.