Write Wrong Identity

Identity gives a person a strong sense of individuality, but sometimes a person may challenge their identity by questioning everything they ever knew about themselves. The latter holds true for a student named Emily Vallowe. In her narrative, “Write or Wrong Identity”, Emily Vallowe contests her self-concept as a “writer,” by exploring everywhere from her earliest years to her present life to determine whether or not she can live up to this claim. She utilizes personal anecdotes from her childhood and onward to contemplate and ultimately defend her “right” to call herself a writer.
Since the author’s contemplation of her identity reflected the contemplation I once had of my own identity, I felt that this was the narrative that I could best
Throughout the narrative, she implements anecdotes about her past that relate to her conceptualization of herself as a writer. These anecdotes not only help to catch the reader’s attention, but also help the reader to understand the author’s reasoning for her identity as a writer on a deeper level. She gives examples such as the encounter she had with the Catholics that made her probe her identity, as well as the time she spent in Chicago that gave her a basic understanding of what “the” meant. I thought the way that she integrated her understanding of Chicago as “the” city with her idea of herself as “the writer” showed her creativity and genius as an author since she was able to parallel the two in a way where she was able to correlate two superlatives of different kinds. When she started to question everything that she knew about herself and compared it to challenging absolutes when she starts with “If I found my vocation at the age of three, have I skipped this journey?”, I felt like I became one with her since the questioning that she did seemed to permeate my mind and penetrate my heart as I read through the long list. In addition, this long list of questions demonstrates her ability to use parallelism and repetition in a way that she could adequately express her inner emotions and thoughts. Overall, I felt that Emily Vallowe