English Notes
September 10, 2015
Journal and Article Reactions:
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Perspective can impact storytelling. You may experience a memory positively while a sibling
experienced the same memory negatively.
Article comes from the point of view as writing for therapy. If you write about pain, you may
feel worse. However, if you write about a painful experience in the 3rd person, you may be able
to overcome it.
As a narrator of an event, if your lens is positive, you may view your future as positive.
Someone may try to tell a happy story to get away from something unpleasant.
Personality/Identity
Static (people don’t change)
Dynamic (people change—think of Macbeth who was loyal and then turned into a tyrant)