WRT 102 Personal Narrative
“A Haunted Place”
Finished length: 4-6 pages, double-spaced
Put your full name, “Personal Narrative” (the genre), and the date of writing in the upper-left hand corner, and center your own title for the essay underneath this.
Write a story about a place that you know, or you have been, that is haunted. It doesn’t have to be haunted in a supernatural way (although it can be spooky). It can be haunted by a memory or haunted by the feeling that you have been there before (deja vu) or haunted in any way that you like to interpret the word.
In your essay, tell this story. It should not be fiction (made up). It should be something that is truthful to you. You can retell the story using description and dialogue. The description should help to set the tone of the story. The essay can be mostly introspective observation or it can be a true dramatic unfolding of the plot, but this story should have in some way changed you or made an impression upon you that you want to convey to the reader as the point, or thesis, or the narrative.
This can be a story from your childhood, or your young adulthood, or it can even be a story told to you by an older family member or friend.
