Finish narrative By This Coming Wednesday

(Due This Friday)

Loopwriting
Prompt #1:
Choose an event that has occurred in your life.
Parental Divorce

Prompt #2:
Write for a few minutes about something that has happened to you. Did it make aware of a
larger problem? How did you make that connection? Don't worry about grammatical
correctness. Just write what comes to mind.
My parents had divorced when I was the age of 6. The larger problem at hand
that I recognize from this scenario are the issues of mental health on children
through divorced parents and the reason divorce is at such an all-time high.
How is this affecting the everyday average life of someone or what social
implications lie on that person? Personally, my family has suffered a lot from
this, including myself and my brother at the max. They say the worst age for a
kid when their parent’s divorce is the ages of 6-8. I was 6 years and old and my
brother was 8 years old. The reason I recognize this is because its directly shown
in my brother and myself and we stem with many different issues similar in both
of us. Some being anger or social anxiety issues.

Prompt #3:
Describe moments, events, places, or specific details about your topic.
I remember specifically not being able to go to school and having anxiety attacks because my
dad was not with me. This happened directly after the divorce and never before.
I remember instances where my mother or father would leave the house for several days and
not even tell me to not make me worried.

Prompt #4:
What do you see when you think of your topic? What is the setting? What do you want the
reader to feel when they read this? Who are the people involved? What are they like?
Personally, I see all the different homes I found myself in and the arguing moments between
my parents. I see the different people I was forced to talked to and therapists or guardian at
lidems. The big part of my narrative that I want the reader to understand when reading the
essay is to put themselves in my shoes but more so to put them in my thoughts. That tends to
be the hard part to comprehend, so If I can gauge a different scenario for people who have
never experienced this, then it would reach my goal.

Prompt #5:
Write any and all dialogue you can remember concerning your topic. This may be in the form
of conversations that took place during event. Don't worry if you have to fictionalize some of
the dialogue because your memory fails you.
I vividly remember a sheriff having to evict my father from his house after the divorce because
he couldn’t afford it saying, “You need to take your belongings and your kids belongings and
leave this residence.”
I can’t remember much dialogue because it was so long ago, but I do remember many
members of my family crying and arguing.

Prompt #6:
Imagine that something about your topic were radically different and then write about it.
What if you never had to deal with this? What if someone o something associated with your
topic changed? What if someone else were telling your story? Would that have changed the
situation or the interpretation? How would it be different? Does this change your view of the
event?
One of the things I always think about is that if the divorce never happened, how would my
attitude have changed. How would my emotions be affected? I don’t think I would think the
same way at all and that’s always something I think about. I don’t think someone else could
tell my story because for several years I had to put on a façade even though I was strongly
affected by that instance. My interpretation is the only one that makes sense to me. I think the
only other person that could tell my story would be my brother because we have both been
affected dearly by this issue. I think our stories are very aligned and they would be very
similar.

Prompt #7:
Go back and read through what you've done. Omit any lies, or things that you don't entirely
believe about your topic, that you may have written throughout this exercise.
Everything I stated is true to my experience.