Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last month of your life into the glistening marble of immortality. What’s the statue of and what makes it so significant?
Author: D. Sader
Dreams
The psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that dreams often express our most hidden desires and fears – parts of ourselves that we do not want to or are too afraid to acknowledge when we are awake. He claimed that these neglected, or repressed, aspects of our personality often manifest themselves in dreams in the form of a relentless pursuer.
How does this theory apply to a protagonist from a text you have studied?
Existentialism
Existentialism is a philosophy of life that emphasizes personal choice and subjectivity; that is the idea that our everyday choices, actions, and reactions determine who and what we are. Find out more about existentialism. Write as summary of what your have discovered.
Explain how a text you have studied reflects elements of this philosophy.
Observe death carefully, sympathetically
Write a narration about your experience with a person or an animal whose actions you have observed carefully, using a first-person point of view to present not only your own observations of your subject but also the details of that subject’s experiences as you have sympathetically understood and interpreted them.
“Death is stronger than I am”
Narrate the specific events of an experience from which you learned that “death is stronger than I am.”
Death of an Animal
Write a narrative account of your experience of the death of an animal, using specific details to show your readers why this death was significant to you.
Forever
Write a narrative account of an unpleasant or a pleasant experience that seemed, at the time, to be continuing on forever. Provide specific details about the events that took place, but carefully organize and develop those details in a sequence by compressing and expanding the narrative time duration in order to maintain your reader’s interest.
Uncontrollable
Write a first-person narrative account of an experience in which you felt helpless, providing a detailed treatment of those aspects of the experience that seemed particularly uncontrollable.
Storm
Write a first-person narration about a storm that you have experienced, emphasizing not only the details of what happened but also your responses to the experience.
Loathed Activity
Narrate an actual (or perhaps imagined experience) where circumstances made it necessary for you to be involved in a particular activity that you had always loathed.