Blog 5

How to analyze a story

Nina Yang

W&C III

Ms. Guarino

10/18/2014

    To tell a story to people is always easy since it’s easy to say what you remember the things that already happened. However, to analyze the story you tell is kind of hard because people seldom conclude what they’ve learned during an experience. Therefore, I think to analyze the story of my significant moment is the hardest par of this paper for me.

    My significant moment was the first night in Australia because I went there all by myself when I was in fifth grade. It was pretty tough for a 10-year old kid to stay in a totally unfamiliar country, which doesn’t speak any Chinese.

    The first difficulty came after I wrote the first draft. What I wrote was pretty much all the things that happened during the first day and what I thought at that time. There was not many analyzes in my first draft. Then, in the next draft, I had to think about what I learned after the first night in my home stay. It was hard to think what I should write because I had to related what I learned to my thesis which is I became a mature and thoughtful girl. Then, I had to write about what I learned to make me became mature and thoughtful.

    The hardest part came after that because I had to analyze my story to show that why I became a mature and thoughtful girl. I had to write about the difficulties I faced and wrote about the feelings I had at that time. In my opinion, to analyze a story is to tell a reason of the result. I had to show the reasons clearly enough so that my readers could understand what I’m talking about and why I became mature and thoughtful.

    Finally, I wrote another new paragraph about what I learned from this experience and what should I do next. I wrote that because this experience I learned that how to pack up my stuff and take care of myself. After this experience, I was able to handle situations all by myself. I learned how to become independence. In addition, I was able to put myself in other’s shoes when I face a problem with someone. Also, I really appreciated to my parents and wrote my appreciation at my analyze paragraph. Besides, I wrote the equal length between my analysis part and my story part.

    From this significant moment paper, I learned that how write analysis of an experience. First, I have to write the most important part that I can analyze and related to my thesis. Then, length of the analysis and the story should be pretty much the same. Last but not the least, the analysis should be what you learned from the story, and it should be something valuable and worth to learn. Besides, I should also write something afterward in order to show I actually learned it and use it in later of my life.