Read the essay “Trauma, Storytelling, and Time Travel” by Leslie Kendall Dye (7/25/17).

Annotate this essay as you read, paying attention to and identifying the components of narrative writing. Use the chart for annotation provided in section 1.3 to record five passages and your responses to them.

Respond to the following 4 prompts:

• What does Dye (the author) say about the act of storytelling? How does that correspond to what you’ve learned in this chapter?
• How does Dye’s unique experience become something her readers (you) can relate to? Hint: think about the details she uses and the emotions she discusses.
• Discuss Dye’s use of time in this essay — how does she move from the present to the past?
• The subtitle of this essay is, “A writer questions the reliability of witnessing her own experience and the faithfulness of narrative.” Discuss what she means by “faithfulness of narrative” — in what ways does she question this faithfulness?

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