Narrative Text

•Anecdote
The Great Gatsby contains a number of anecdotes. In this example, Daisy Buchanan shares a
story about the butler. This anecdote significant because the Buchanan family kept the story of
their butler a secret. Interpretations of this story and its importance have been discussed by
readers for years.

“’I’ll tell you a family secret,’ she whispered enthusiastically. ‘It’s about the butler’s nose. Do
you want to hear about the butler’s nose?... Well, he wasn’t always a butler; he used to be the
silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people. He
had to polish It from morning till night, until finally it began to affect his nose –’
‘Things went from bad to worse,’ suggested Miss Baker.
‘Yes. Things went from bad to worse until finally he had to give up his position.’”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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•Short Story
WHAT REMAINS
Sucharnochee Review, 2016
The woman stooped low and gathered a motionless bundle of fur into her arms. She cradled it
before laying the dead raccoon into a sack that hung from her shoulder. She finished her round of
the neighborhood, finding a flattened squirrel whose tail had fallen off. There was also what she
guessed was a crow. She brushed the feathers and her thumb dipped into its skull. Maybe it was a
young raven. Careful to hold the sack in such a way that it didn’t bounce against her hip, she
walked home. The rusted gate squeaked shut behind her.
Her spade scraped away chunks of dirt, throwing it onto her lap and into her shoes. The sun was
nearly set when she finished the first carefully-squared hole. She laid the raccoon in and pushed
handfuls of dirt over him, pressing it into a mound before she topped it with a small rock. Sitting
on her heels, she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand. The squirrel and what re- mained
of the crow had their own graves and stones when she brushed her hands on her pants and
cracked her back.
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•Anecdote
“I’ll tell you they were in love. Young and wild for each other. Happy in it, though they scraped
and squabbles. She was going into seventeen when they came together the first time. It was after
they’d been together the mark came on him. He didn’t tell her. I don’t know whether to blame
him for that, but he didn’t tell her. And when she found out, she was angry, but more, she was
devastated.”
-Dark Witch by Nora Roberts
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Example 1:

Single Parent Struggle

For many years, children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed as
different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has
become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally
stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them the rocky path that life
bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the difference of children raised by single
parents versus children raised by both a mother and a father. Does a child need both parents?
Does a young boy need a father figure around? Does the govemment provide help for single
parents? What role do step-parents and step-siblings play? With much speculation, this topic has
become a very intriguing argument. What people must understand is that property raising a child
does not rely on the structure of a family but should be more focused on the process or values
that are Laught to these children as they leam to mature. Children of single parents can be just as
progressive with emotional, social and behavioral skills as those with two parents.

People claim that the only way for children to gain fall emotional and behavioral skills is
to be raised by both a mother and a father. When a topic such as this one has a broad amount of
variables it is impossible to simply link these problems to only having one parent. In the article.
“Single-parent families cause juvenile crime”, author Robert L. Maginnis states, “Children from
single-parent families are more likely to have behavior
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Example 2:

This family was a victim of a problem they could have avoided-a problem that, according to
Florida park rangers, hundreds of visitors suffer each year. “Several times a month,” ranger Rod
Torres of O’Leno State Park said, “people get scared and leave the park in the middle of the
night.” Those people picked the wrong kind of park to visit. Not that there was anything wrong
with the park: The hikers camped next to them loved the wild isolation of it. But it just wasn’t
the kind of place the couple from New Jersey had in mind when they decided to camp out on this
trip through Florida. If they had known about the different kinds of parks in Florida, they might
have stayed in a place they loved.”

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Example 3:

The alligator has a u-shaped, round snout and tends to live in freshwater swamps and streams.
The crocodile has a long, v-shaped nose and can live in saltier waters as well as freshwater
habitats.

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