A narrative (story)
Description
Writing Prompt:
Write a narrative essay (5 paragraphs) that uses a story from your past experience to illustrate (or to refute) one of the following proverbs, quotations, or commonsense statements.
The statement can be the title of your essay, or you can think of another title:
1. Money can’t buy happiness. 9. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.
2. Money is the root of all evil. 10. A penny saved is a penny earned.
3. I never met a man I didn’t like. 11. Small children, small problems, big children big problems.
4. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen 12. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
5. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 13. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
6. You can’t judge a book by its cover 14. Good fences make good neighbors
7. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. 15. A stitch in time saves nine.
8. There’s no such thing as a bad boy.
