Proposal

Megan Fett
English 111
Joe Griffin
November 13, 2008
Proposal
For this assignment, I plan to write a short story. The story itself is actually a personal experience that changed my life, so it is much easier to write about having been through it. Although many would find it hard to write about, I actually find it rather soothing, as sick as it sounds. My story is of a death I experienced in the family and the twists and turns that my family and I had to go through to understand and make sense of the whole situation.
The best way to approach this is to write the short story in the form of a journal or diary. I want to do a day by day play of what is going on. A story is not meant to leave bit and pieces out, so by making the story go through every day I feel the reader will actually become involved. Also, I feel by writing a journal, which means it will be written in first person, it will be more relatable.
My intended audience of this piece will be for any person who enjoys a dramatic story. I suppose to will be more directed at people who need to understand the experience of a death. At the end of my journal, it will be clear there is a moral to the story. It is one many people always hear:
“Live each day to the fullest” and “Tell people how much you love them everyday”
I know this is common a common moral to a story, but I feel since it will be written in first person, straight from the source, people will understand and connect to the piece more.
The purpose for the project was already stated, but basically I want to make people understand the tragedy of death and the positives you can take from it. Not everything has to be horrible. I believe there is something more that people have to dig for to find.