PN+PeterP

**Part II: Prewriting (post on your PN wiki page)**

 * Assignment**: Your assignment is to write a narrative about a formative moment in your life that somehow defined who you are (the event changed you or you learned about an important idea). You must include several paragraphs that reflect on how you changed, what did you learned, and WHY is it significant.

Directions: Fill in the information below as completely as possible.

Your purpose is to explain, from your POV, a moment in your life that somehow defined who you are. Be as specific as possible. Focus in on one or two main events that demonstrate the change (or idea learned). What is your specific purpose in this narrative - what change are you demonstrating (or idea learned)? My purpose in this narrative is to show a change from a desire to mimic others and comply to the norm to a realization that one should live as one's individual self, rather than as somebody else.
 * Purpose:**

This narrative writing is dedicated to an educated audience.
 * Audience:**

During my time in CTY (Center for Talented Youth), an academic summer camp, I discovered who I truly was and learned to be my individual self, rather than mimic the behaviors of others.
 * Thesis:**

Looks like: Peter Park Age: 14 years old Motivation / Objective: (What do you want?): Greater proficiency and fluency in English (this motivation later becomes trivial to the plot)
 * Description of Character** (this is you)

The narrative takes place in Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the summer of 2009.
 * Setting:**

I arrive at the CTY camp -> I notice everyone was different -> I meet my roommate -> I meet my hallmates -> I blend in with my hallmates -> realization of diversity
 * Plot:**

The conflict begins with my initial desire to mimic others and live according to the norm. However, my three weeks in CTY led me to respect both my and others' individuality and informed me that I should prefer living as myself over living as somebody else.
 * Conflict:**

No, there aren't any key moments in my narrative that require dialogue.
 * Dialogue:**

sight - This is the most important sensory detail in my story. It is the primary method of describing something I observed. sound - To be more precise, listening to others talking is a large part of the story.
 * Sensory Details:**

I didn’t have to conform to uniformity to become part of a group; that was never the case. I could be perfectly myself, and still interact freely with those who are different from me. In CTY, I learned that diversity was not unpropitious, but favorable. Accepting and respecting the diversity of other people, as well as my own, is a crucial step in forging lasting bonds. In CTY, I learned that while being unique from everyone else, one can still form friendships - strong friendships - with people who are different. This was particularly true in CTY: no matter who you were, you could join hands with others, participate in annual CTY rituals, and completely be yourself while doing this. I will never forget the memories, the experiences, the lessons I have acquired from CTY.
 * Reflection / Analysis section**: //(this section is critical)//