I have to write about the importance of forgiveness. I could easily ramble on about my opinion and reasons why, but it has to be a first person narrative and that’s throwing me off. I’m not sure how to incorporate it all into a story like this. So I need some ides. 🙂 Thanks.
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It sounds as though you are being asked to tell how you experienced the importance of forgiveness yourself.
You can easily talk about your opinion, .. so what is this based on? What experiences of forgiveness have you experienced either from the point of view of your forgiving someone and the subsequent benefits of it, or from the other side of being forgiven and the importance of it to both you and the forgiver.
If i understand you right, you basically have to write a story demonstrating the importance of forgiveness? If that’s right, then you could write about someone who mistakenly got angry with someone else and never forgave them, then later found out that they had been wrong. Or you could write about someone who doesn’t forgive someone and they die without that closure. I hope that helps!
Point out that forgiveness is "good for the soul",meaning, it gives the person that forgives closure and a sense of peace about the situation/person. Unforgiveness causes bitterness, resentment, possibly even hatred, which is bad for us emotionally/psychologically. Good luck for your essay!
maybe this will help:
Forgiveness Quotes
"Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you."
-Ephesians 4:32 The Bible
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” -William Arthur Ward
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” -Lewis B. Smedes
“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.” -Israel Zangwill
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.” -Eric Hoffer
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” -Voltaire
“He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.” -The Koran
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” -Bernard Meltzer
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” -Mark Twain
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” -Cherie Carter-Scott
“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.” -Lawana Blackwell
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
-Catherine Ponder
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?” -Dolores Huerta
“Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.” -Randall Worley
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” -Marlene Dietrich
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.” -Franklin P. Adams
“Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.”
-Sara Paddison
‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”
-John Sheffield
“The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart, far more damaging to yourself than to them.” -Lawana Blackwell
write a story bout hatred and forgiveness, Ex: They killed you pet on accident but you cant forgive them, because you dont believe them
Sometimes we have to forgive ourselves. We feel guilty for doing something. We can spend weeks, months, and years with his horrible mistake we can not take back.
Sometimes we have to reflect on things. Confronting our mistakes, learn from our mistakes, and forgive ourselves for a horrible ordeal.
My older dog just recently got into a fight with my 3 month old puppy. And, it was sort of an accident, but my puppy, Baxter, got chocked and went to the animal hospital. He died that night, because he couldnt breath! 🙁 so, i now have to forgive my other dog, and its really hard
– maybe something like that you can write about!?!?
peopel hold grudges, simpla as that,
like this teacher hated my friends sis and she made my friend miserable
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Hi,
sounds like you need help with the layout/format of this essay. You basically need to use the I format when writting your story. You should use past tense, if you are having problems with writting in First person narrative. You can use this format.
Introduction: – Start by I remember the day as if it was yesterday.
Then insert your story – for example – I was sitting alone at my table when all of a sudden, my best friend walked up behind me and screamed in my ear. I was so startled that I spilt my hot chocolate all over my brand new laptop computer. My laptop made a sudden loud noise and then died. My assignment was due in 2 hours. I never wanted to see my best friend again.
Then go into the development:
1) Talk about what you did- screamed at them, told them to get lost, never want to talk to them again. Marched away, ignored them for a week. You miss your best friend because now you have to eat lunch alone.
2) Talk about what they did – they laughed, took off, didn’t help or apologize
3) Talk about how you felt – angry at them, panicked over assignment, worried parents would kill you for breaking laptop, worried fail assignment.
4) Talk about how they felt- they didnt get why you were so mad, it was an accident, dont know why you won’t talk to them, they don’t know how to fix the problem
5)Talk about how you resolved it – you talked to them about what happened, and told them why you were so mad, they agree to pay to repair the laptop. You ahve your best friend back.
conclusion:
Restate your intro, and finish up by stating: it is important to forgive. Beeing mad only makes you miserable, and creates more problems than good.
hope this gives you some ideas.
by the way Wikipedia has some more information on first person narrative. Here it is:
First-person narrative is a narrative mode in which a story is narrated by one character, who explicitly refers to him- or herself in the first person, that is, using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no other characters. In some stories, first-person narrators may refer to information they have heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view.
The intensity of such confessional intimacy can be overwhelming. First-person narratives can appear in several forms: interior monologue, as in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground; dramatic monologue, as in Albert Camus’ The Fall; or explicitly, as in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Since the narrator is within the story, he or she may not have knowledge of all the events. For this reason, first-person narrative is often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together. One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective’s principal assistant, the "watson", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
In the first-person-plural point of view, narrators tell the story using "we". That is, no individual speaker is identified; the narrator is a member of a group that acts as a unit. The first-person-plural point of view occurs rarely but can be used effectively, sometimes as a means to increase the concentration on the character or characters the story is about. Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily (Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view – see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural), Frederik Pohl in Man Plus, and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came To The End.
First-person narrators can also be multiple, as in Akutagawa’s In a Grove (the source for the movie Rashomon) and Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury. Each of these sources provides different accounts of the same event.
The first-person narrator may be the principal character or one who closely observes the principal character (see Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, each narrated by a minor character.). These can be distinguished as "first person major" or "first person minor" points of view.
First-person narrative can tend towards a stream of consciousness, as in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The whole of the narrative can itself be presented as a false document, such as a diary, in which the narrator makes explicit reference to the fact that he is writing or telling a story. This is the case in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As a story unfolds, narrators may be more or less conscious of themselves as telling a story, and their reasons for telling it, and the audience that they believe they are addressing, also vary wildly. In extreme cases, a frame story presents the narrator as a character in an outside story who begins to tell his own story.
First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired (as in The Last Film of Emile Vico by Thomas Gavin), lie (as in the The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not (as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro). Henry James discusses his concerns about "the romantic privilege of the ‘first person’" in his preface to The Ambassadors, calling it "the darkest abyss of romance."[1][2]
One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified ‘I’ narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work. Even within this nested story, we are told that another character, Kurtz, told Marlow a lengthy story; we are not, however, directly told anything about its content. Thus we have an "I" narrator introducing a storyteller as "he" (Marlow), who talks about himself as "I" and introduces another storyteller as "he" (Kurtz), who in turn presumably told his story from the perspective of "I".