Sondra Whited

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Things to Consider for this Paper:

1. Yes. Although my couch is a small area and there isn’t too much to describe about it the audience will have a visual picture of what it looks like

2. I will be credible because I will be the one narrating it, as I am the one living it.

3. The way I will incorporate my essay to be something new instead of just the boring old cliché, is the way the characters and emotions in each time period will be different, but it will meet full swing in the end. For example, in the beginning both my siblings and parents will be there and there will be a sense of unity and happiness. However, as several years pass the couch will just be filled with me and my mom as my siblings and dad both left for different reasons. This time period is going to be filled with a feeling that something is missing and isn’t the same. Then, in my final time period I am going to have the story come full circle and have everyone visiting for Christmas and we all sit on the couch opening presents, a full unit again.

4. My intended audience is probably for young adults. I feel like the way I write is pretty straight forward and I think that appeals to a lot of young adults because it’s not like they have to read a sentence and wonder what is happening, I like to just straight up say what is happening.

5. My intended readers will have a strong sense of family. I am tapping into the world because I am trying to point out that although every family is extremely dysfunctional and things can change all the time, at the end of the day you will always be family no matter what happens.

Full Name: Amy Whited

Gender: Female

Age and Date of Birth (as your story does not need to have a contemporary

setting): 53, November 16

Birth City: Rockland, NY

Parent’s Names: Ben and Sandra

Siblings: sister named Karen

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Pets: dog, black lab

Education: Northeastern University, degree in Business

Favorite Movie: The Impossible

Favorite TV Show: This is Us

Favorite Book: doesn’t read

Favorite Food: Salad

Favorite Day of the Week: Saturday or Sunday

Favorite Hobby: doula

Favorite Drink: diet coke or seltzer

Favorite Band: Dave Matthews Band

Favorite Song: Crash into me

Favorite Halloween Costume (if s/he celebrated Halloween): parent so hasn’t dressed up in a while

Religious affiliation: Jewish

Political affiliation: Moderate

Love interest(s): married then divorced then remarried

Physical Description: small, thin, brunette

Eye Color: brown

Hair Color and Style: brown and curly

Height: 5’4”

Weight: 105 lbs.

Skin Tone: white

Facial Description (does s/he have a unique nose, forehead, eyes, ears, lips,

ect.?): she has bangs

Clothes (what s/he is wearing or usually wears): leggings and a sweatshirt or a business suit to work

Other Physical Characteristics (booty, busty, muscular, corpulent, scrawny,

disproportioned, ect.): small

Defining Moments

The one childhood instance—good or bad—that indelibly affects who this

character is now: her mom died very young from melanoma

The character’s proudest moment: being a mom

The character’s most embarrassing moment: breaking her butt bone from sledding

The character’s career goals of future aspirations/ambitions: she is currently a pharmaceutical rep, doula, real estate agent, and cater water to support her family

Whom the character would most like to have dinner with (past or present)

and why: her mother

Three adjectives the character would use to describe him/herself: giving, happy, workaholic

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