My essay’s purpose is to demonstrate that when you loose someone you will never forget them but when you least expect it you may accept it. I wanted to write this piece because I feel like a lot of young people do not go through loosing someone so close to them. When it happens and none of your friends can understand what you are going through it makes it more difficult to grieve. I want this essay to touch people and help them to understand what it is like to loose a parent at a young age. I would hope that others would appreciate their parents more after reading this. I believe that the overall theme of the Pittsburgh Steelers will tie the story together. From the beginning of me being a fan watching games with my dad to the super bowl without my father. I think that my flashbacks and segmenting my essay will really pull people into the moment. My overall main point will be that you have to grieve and you cannot hold it all in forever. I will include a description of my father’s looks and personality. I will also include descriptions of our surroundings to further develop our relationship in the essay. I am going to leave out the details of my father’s illness. It is not pertinent to the story so I feel it will just drag it on.
After reading the beginning of my essay readers will know this is an emotional piece. If they relate to or are curious about my topic there will be clues throughout my essay to read it more deeply. I will use symbolism and foreshadowing so the reader will be prepared. I will also have some strong descriptions. Many people believe that you get over the death of someone close to you and that’s it. It’s never brought to a head again, but that’s not true. When you loose someone that is that close to you the pain will creep back up when you least expect it. I would show my reader that even today I still think about it and get upset, it’s just less frequent and less sad thoughts more memories.
2 comments:
Only an idiot wouldn't understand and empathize with what you will focus on. I also lost a VERY close uncle, a father figure in my childhood, which was hard. And even if someone hasn't lost a loved one YET, they should be able to imagine the pain of living without a father, brother, or any close person. My question is: even though this is mainly about you and the way you dealt with the loss of your father, will you include some flashbacks, commentary and reflection about how this experience affected all the other members of the family? I will probably be curious to know how the others dealt with the loss, and how you were fitting into all that. Unless of course the objective of the essay is to also highlight your SPECIAL connection with your departed father. Am I making sense? Otherwise, the formula (flashback segments) that you're considering for the story is perfect for in this case.
Wow, that hit me kind of hard. I'm sort of terrified of the idea of losing someone close to me like that, so you kind of already hooked me onto your story. I imagine the essay will have that same effect on anyone who reads it. Like I posted on Jess's blog, I think that kind of honesty is what really makes something compelling to read. Very cool. I'm interested to see how the Steelers will work into it; I imgaine it would provide a sort of bitter-sweet memory part, or something like that? I dunno, but I think you're right about it pulling the reader in.
I also really like how you're going to reach out to your audience. It seems like this could really serve as something very uplifting to someone going through something similar. Very cool yo.
The only thing I'm wondering about is what specific writing techniques you want to use to get all of those effects in the reader.
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