General Narrative analysis

In English 101, I had to write a general narrative on a discourse I was passionate about so I chose track and field. The purpose of this essay was not to discuss how this specific hobby changed our lives but how it shaped the people we became and our specific relationship to it. We also had to bring up a specific experience we had with this discourse. In my paper instead of solely talking about a big race I had or something; I broke down the race itself and that race would be the 400m. I spoke about the start, the middle, and the end. At the start, you have the gun go off which determines if you’ll be successful throughout the rest of the race. Next, you have the middle, at this time it is what I call the after the gun affect. Here you have to mentally break down the race and determine your position within the other runners. Lastly, you have the end of the race where you finally get to know if that hard work actually paid off. I decided to break it down this way because I felt like it allowed a visual for the audience reading the essay. I chose this topic to discuss because it is the one thing that I know so much about. Not only facts but personal experiences that make me feel like a pro when it comes to talking about it. It was easy being able to personally envision my paper because it is something I couldn’t forget even if I tried. There was no other discourse that I could have picked that would have given me more success.