Betrayal

For your first essay you have options. In first person (in the I perspective) & in past tense, please tell the story of:

1) A rivalry youve experienced with a sibling, a friend, a parent, or some other figure in your life, OR

2) A betrayal youve suffered or inflicted, OR

3) A love relation of yours that went badly wrong.

Structure: Your story (told in paragraphs)

Your reflections (your last paragraph answer to the question: What did this experience teach me about how I should live?)

Your essay will begin where your story begins. No standard introductory paragraph!

Your story should be richly detailed out of your own unique experience. Write it as if you were telling your story to a close friend, candidly, in your own voice. Your reflections should be your own. Please avoid in your reflective final paragraph the platitudes on rivalry or betrayal or love that are easy to hand on the internet.

Two full 12-font, double-spaced pages. Your essay can be a bit longer than two pages, but not much longer without permission (which I’ll gladly give in certain cases :-)).

Why do this? This work promotes the Course Learning Outcomes concerning essay writing and use of standard American English. Your essay will give me something to work with in my effort to help you improve your writing. Further, this work will prime you up for our third & fourth week classes & also connect vitally to content presented at later points in our course.