I M Jumping Off The Bridge Analysis
I recently received your email regarding how can an essay be included in The Best American Essay 2017 edition. Before I spell out my standpoint, I want you to think about what makes a story, an essay persuasive and impactful.
I believe all of us have heard of the Disney movie Moana. I’m not here to say how bad the movie is but to reveal my true feeling toward the movie.
It was a 3-day weekend or someday in my senior year of high school that I was able to persuade my mother to let me go to Irvine Spectrum with friends on a Friday afternoon. This was the last couple times that I could hang-out with my high school friends before we walked our way to the graduation; we better did something fun! However, there was really nothing, yes, nothing, …show more content…
Sampsell successfully created a mist around the narrator and revealed the mystery of the character step by step throughout the entire writing. In the beginning, we see the narrator as a usual, nothing-special guy who works in the bookstore. As we were to predict, once the narrator saved Chris, he felt honor and proud, and we may think he’s going to go home and share his heroism with friends and family. However, this is where things get mysterious, or ambiguous: “Maybe I was saying these boastful things because it just feels good to help another human being. Or maybe I was saying them because by then my own life was spinning out of control” (107). Mr. Sampsell did a really nice transition by showing us the “surface” of the narrator and then rising up a line that makes the reader thinks “What?” Why would his life “spinning out of control”; what happened to the narrator? By raising questions upon the character makes me want to read more and emerge myself into the story to see what is going on. Other than the storyline itself creates a suspension, the formatting of the text boxes also creates an effect on readers. After the sentence, “my own life was spinning out of control,” the reader needs to flip to the next page to continue on the journey of understanding the narrator. This page break may be a coincidence, but …show more content…
Through the conversation and interaction he has with Lynne, we learn that the narrator is someone who has many worries in his mind, is unstable and fragile. This is where ambiguity kicks in. He saved a life early in the day, but how come he becomes so weak and frail by the end of the day. Thus, to further understand this character, the author leads us to the narrator’s personal story and his relationship with his girlfriend. Through the way the narrator describes the scenes happened to him, I would say the narrator is a keen observer, but he is also someone who constantly has unstable relationships. At the end, when the author brings up the narrator’s son and demonstrate how important they meant to each other shows the last characteristic of the narrator: value the
I believe all of us have heard of the Disney movie Moana. I’m not here to say how bad the movie is but to reveal my true feeling toward the movie.
It was a 3-day weekend or someday in my senior year of high school that I was able to persuade my mother to let me go to Irvine Spectrum with friends on a Friday afternoon. This was the last couple times that I could hang-out with my high school friends before we walked our way to the graduation; we better did something fun! However, there was really nothing, yes, nothing, …show more content…
Sampsell successfully created a mist around the narrator and revealed the mystery of the character step by step throughout the entire writing. In the beginning, we see the narrator as a usual, nothing-special guy who works in the bookstore. As we were to predict, once the narrator saved Chris, he felt honor and proud, and we may think he’s going to go home and share his heroism with friends and family. However, this is where things get mysterious, or ambiguous: “Maybe I was saying these boastful things because it just feels good to help another human being. Or maybe I was saying them because by then my own life was spinning out of control” (107). Mr. Sampsell did a really nice transition by showing us the “surface” of the narrator and then rising up a line that makes the reader thinks “What?” Why would his life “spinning out of control”; what happened to the narrator? By raising questions upon the character makes me want to read more and emerge myself into the story to see what is going on. Other than the storyline itself creates a suspension, the formatting of the text boxes also creates an effect on readers. After the sentence, “my own life was spinning out of control,” the reader needs to flip to the next page to continue on the journey of understanding the narrator. This page break may be a coincidence, but …show more content…
Through the conversation and interaction he has with Lynne, we learn that the narrator is someone who has many worries in his mind, is unstable and fragile. This is where ambiguity kicks in. He saved a life early in the day, but how come he becomes so weak and frail by the end of the day. Thus, to further understand this character, the author leads us to the narrator’s personal story and his relationship with his girlfriend. Through the way the narrator describes the scenes happened to him, I would say the narrator is a keen observer, but he is also someone who constantly has unstable relationships. At the end, when the author brings up the narrator’s son and demonstrate how important they meant to each other shows the last characteristic of the narrator: value the