How my writing has changed throughout this course This course has tuned my critical thinking and my appreciation of narrative strategy. This course required a daily journal regarding one or more short stories or excerpts. These daily journals have refined my analysis skills and my understand of how powerful narrative strategy can effect my perspective of stories and the charterers in the stories. “The reader has a powerful view of the world. In “Bullet to the Brain” the reader views the events as a person that was there in the middle of the action and had an omniscient view of the main characters mind.” This excerpt is from one of the first journals that I wrote in class. It was about “Bullet to the Brain” and it was the first in my many steps in to critical thinking about stories and what narrative strategy can do. This journal was not …show more content…
In this journal I combine my knowledge of characters, themes and narrative strategy. I mention that the character that cheats on his wife knows that what he did is unforgivable. He tries in vain to undo the pain he caused but he gives up and is left miserable. This in conjunction with the fact that the narration is in the second person makes it so the character, who I believe is a cheating scumbag, more likeable. In other words the author has made an unlikeable character likeable by show casing his constant misery after the break up with his fiance. Not only that but the tone of the story made it seem as if the narrator was not scolding but showcasing how his actions in the past made him miserable in the present. Like a friend telling you how you messed up. Not lecturing you, but illustrating the bad decisions you made. This allows the reader a unique understanding of the character and this is due to the narrative