September 16th Homework

Option #1

     There are many things that can be added to a narrative to make it an interesting one, and a well written one as well. To make a narrative first off, one must have an event. This event can be major or small, but must tell a story about one's life. The author of the narrative should include consistent POV,  dialogue, transitions, and also correct verb tenses to write a well written narrative. The author should also should include many details of the event, so the reader can smell, hear, see, and felt what the author experienced at that moment.

     I loved the narrative, "Clinic". As a reader I was able to picture, like a movie, of what was going on. I saw the skinny boy in front of my eyes suffering. The use of the author's language made the story flow, and interesting through out the end.  As a writer I can see that he uses many techniques such as including dialogues, using correct verb tense, consisting use of the same POV, and using transition words to make the narrative flow. I liked how the story kept me interested through the end, and made me want to find out what was wrong with the boy. I think I felt even more sad for the boy because I too had a friend that was abused by her stepfather, and was able to relate how the boy felt.

     I would say this story is the medical student's story. The story, written in first person view, is talking about an incident that changed the medical student's perspective when looking at his patients. The boy the medical student encounters changes him.  The medical student student states in the end that what he encountered in that 5 days thought him more than what he has learned in medical schools. Even though the boy was important in the narrative, I think it did not have enough back story on the boy to call it his story as well.

     Gremmel's purpose in writing this narrative was to share what he had learned when he encountered the boy.  Gremmel even states in his own story towards the end that he had learned so much through this boy. Gremmel also ends his last sentence stating his main point of the narrative by saying he has learned more from this boy than all the years of school that he has gone to. Gremmel also wrote this story as a medical detective story. The reason Gremmel did this was to keep a suspense while the readers are reading. The suspense makes the readers are help captive throughout the story, thinking and questioning till the end what is wrong with the boy. It keeps the readers occupied, the reader is always entertained. Overall Gremmel wrote this as a medical detective story, for flow, and suspense, so that the readers do no get bored.