PN+TaeYoon

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.

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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)? -The change I'll be undergoing in my narrative is becoming an older brother and how I lived in temporary disillusion at the fact that now I wasn't the spotlight-catcher within my family.
 * Purpose:**

Who is your audience? -My educated friends and Mr. Stephen.
 * Audience:**

In one sentence state the main idea of this story from the 1st person POV. (This is how you changed or what you learned.) -I looked hopelessly towards my mother's back, every sound of her calm voice drawing tears to my eyes, tapped her lightly, and managed to say, "Mom...can you...please look at me...just once...as you are...him?"
 * Thesis:**

Looks like: The current Taeyoon without glasses, very short hair, and much smaller in size (both height and weight). Age: 5 Motivation / Objective: (What do you want?) -I want the family attention, the spotlight back!
 * Description of Character** (this is you)

Where does the narrative take place? -Tokyo, Japan When does the narrative take place? -The year 2000, mid January.
 * Setting:**

In chronological order, list the main events of the story / narrative. **Hint:** focus your narrative on the key moment where the change occurred. -How I am, for the past 5 years, the person receiving all the attention from both sides of my family (an introduction to my life so far). -What is this eerie inflating of my mom's stomach? -Why is my mom gone? To where? -Now my dad frequently can't be seen. Home alone. -Sudden stay over at friend's house. -An unexpected visitor. -No way, family? -You stole my spotlight!
 * Plot:**

What is the major problem in the story that produces the change in you? Describe this conflict in several complete sentences. -My baby brother is born. After having received all the love and care from all members of my family for 5 whole years, it is hard to understand this strange phenomenon where I start to lose the spotlight. Soon after I am introduced to a new born child and I find myself devoid of attention, in the dark.
 * Conflict:**

Are there any key moments in the story where dialogue would be effective? List these moments here. -Yes -Certain moments where I try to express my sadness to either of my parents, my shock to the new born baby who is welcomed into the family, the "Great Depression", how my actions changed throughout this period of time.
 * Dialogue:**

List any sensory details that will be important in your narrative: sight, smells, sounds, tastes, touch, and movement. -Definitely sight, movement, touch, and sounds.
 * Sensory Details:**

How did you change? What did you learn? Why is it significant? -I became more mature, but more important than that, I adapted to the division of the spotlight I used to receive before my little brother existed. Gradually, I grew comfortable with the existence of a sibling but be warned that the process was not easy, nor was it over in a few days time. I learned how I was no longer the shiny new product that everyone was fascinated by, but something that was a little behind millennium boy. The significance of this change is that I finally came to look at my family in a different manner, I understood that my spotlight-hunger had driven me to despise a dear family member and from now on I wasn't to be alone.
 * Reflection / Analysis section**: //(this section is critical)//