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

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1Exploring Life and Loss: Analyzing Narration in Steve Martin’s ‘TheDeath of My FatherAfter reading the essay “The Death of My Father” by Steve Martin in Chapter 5 ofEssentials of College Writing, identify at least three elements of narration in Martin’snarrative and analyze the effectiveness of those elements by describing what made thoseelements effective. You should also be able to state the author’s purpose for writing thenarrative, determine the intended audience, and identify the thesis statement.Reply:-Having gone through the essay, the three elements thatcometo mind aredemonstrationof the extreme scene of life,ability ofthe author to express the truth in a lucid mannerand third element would be the manner in which the author has put forward the entirestory concerninglife.There seems to be specific reason for writing this essay. This may target any one who hasthe capability of reading andunderstanding thereason behind one’s write up because anyone who possess areasonablemind,will be able to understand life andas this essaycovers the prime scenes of life so the essay targets almost all sections of the society fromteenagers to elders and everyone gets a varied feeling after going through the essay sinceit 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 bedifferent in comparison to an elderly person reading the story.The prime reason forwriting this essay isto showcase the bits and pieces of life’s happy moments and also thesordidscenes of life and it goes to give us the messages that life is not simple and it doesnot move in a straight and simple manner. It is full ofsuddensurprises anduncertainties.The life of a person revolves around so many stages and each stage of life turns out in itsown way in front of the person and this again iscatalyzedby the presence others and the

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