Bryson Eiler Ms. Lehmann English 2-2A 9 October 2019 MURDER I could still hear the loud yelling from the other room as my friends were all gathered, shouting at each other. I went outside. I could hear footsteps behind me, which wasn’t too alarming because I thought it was one of my friends. Then, out of nowhere, everything went black, and I jumped in my chair sending my arm flying to the right. I felt a burning sensation in my arm. It all started sometime last summer. It was a normal day. I woke up. I cooked some hot pockets, then I started up my computer and started a game. I had the hot pockets on my right just next to my arm. I could feel the heat coming off ofthem. I knew I overcooked them. I could also smell a burning smell coming from the microwave, so I pushed them a little bit further to the side. It didn’t take long for my group of friends to find out that I was online as a notification gets sent out every time a friend goes online or offline. Seconds after I logged on, I checked to see which friends were online. Typically, my friend Sparklegyrl was online. I texted him in private chat while he was in his game and said, “Hey, you up for a game or something?” It took him mere seconds to respond with “Hold on a second. I’m almost done with this game. Actually, I think you will like this one.You should play it with us.” I said in return, “Yeah sure.What’s it called?” He then texted in all caps, very suspiciously, “MURDER!!!!” I said in a very worried way “ok.Uhh, should I be worried?” Then he immediately says, “Trust me.It’ll be fine.It's not too bad.” I waited for him to finish, and I got invited to his party filled with, more or less, the usual people. This party consisted of three people, not including me which were Sparklegyrl, Technomage, and Orion, which coincidentally was also my in-game name, so we constantly got it confused. He ran over the rules of the game with me which took a good 5 minutes or so. They didn’t tell me what the murderer looked like, so I had a very wild image of just somebody with a knife or something. We all spawned in this original living room looking area, and immediately they all started spamming humorous voice lines. I started looking for these so called “watermelons” around the map. It didn’t take long before I heard these ominous footsteps coming from behind me. I thought they were just basic footstep sounds. I stopped for a second to collect my first watermelon,and the entire screen went dark. This scares me so much that I slammed my right arm into the molten hot HotPockets to my right. I started writing in the chat “Oh crap.My whole screen went dark, and I slammed my arm into my burnt hot pockets.Oh gosh.” Sparkle wrote “Yeah, we were all ganging up on you to see how you’d react to a jump scare.” The entire party started bursting out with laughter as my screen slowly shifted to a spectator view of my friends. This is when I finally saw the murderer.It was this wild tentacle monster which also strongly resembled a person.This scared me again, but I didn’t jump. I watched for a few minutes as my friends hilariously murdered each other. That was the day I learned to never trust anything my friends on the computer encouraged me to do.
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific. I started off brainstorming by writing down multiple ideas on a piece of paper with an overlaying theme like sadness, anger, disgust, etc. Then once I was set on an idea I decided to do a bit of a layout of the experience by writing down every main idea in the paragraph and making sure I was showing not telling all of these. I then wrote next to each idea what I would use in the paragraph like Imagery, Dialogue, etc. 2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them? This paper qualifies as a narrative because I wrote a story about an experience I had. The requirements are that there has to be dialogue and not just one sentence but an entire conversation. 3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part? I believe at the end of my story when I got scared by the murderer that actually turned out really well by writing down the surprise I experienced. I like that part because its the whole climax of the story and its actually really funny to me.