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Exploring Life And Loss: Analyzing Narration In Steve Martin�s �The Death Of My Father�

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    1 Exploring Life and Loss: Analyzing Narration in Steve Martin’s ‘The Death of My Father After reading the essay “The Death of My Father” by Steve Martin in Chapter 5 of Essentials of College Writing , identify at least three elements of narration in Martin’s narrative and analyze the effectiveness of those elements by describing what made those elements effective. You should also be able to state the author’s purpose for writing the narrative, determine the intended audience, and identify the thesis statement. Reply: - Having gone through the essay, the three elements that come to mind are demon stration of the extreme scene of life, ability of the author to express the truth in a lucid manner and third element would be the manner in which the author has put forward the entire story concerning life. There seems to be specific reason for writing this essay. This may target any one who has the capability of reading and understanding the reason behind one’s write up because any one who possess a reasonable mind, will be able to understand life and as this essay covers the prime scenes of life so the essay targets almost all sections of the society from teenagers to elders and everyone gets a varied feeling after going through the essay since it is not possible for everyone to have similar kind of feelings and attitude towards life. So, the way a teenager would look at life after going through the essay is expected to be different in comparison to an elderly person reading the story. The prime reason for writing this essay is to showcase the bits and pieces of life’s happy moments and also the sordid scenes of life and it goes to give us the messages that life is not simple and it does not move in a straight and simple manner. It is full of sudden surprises and uncertainties. The life of a person revolves around so many stages and each stage of life turns out in its own way in front of the person and this again is catalyzed by the presence others and the

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