Question

Experiment with the stream-of-consciousness narrative. Think about something that has happened to you recently. You might relay the events of a school day, a visit to a friend’s house, a trip to the store, etc. Tell about the event in a stream-of-consciousness narrative. In doing so, you should— as Virginia Woolf does in her speech—explore a new concept, draw a conclusion, or find a solution to a problem. In other words, you are using a relatively simple story of commonplace events to discover a not-so-simple element of truth. Your narrative should be at least 250 words.

Answer 1

I've been working at a restaurant for over a year now, and I was supposed to get one of the managing positions this month (the only reason why I was staying at this job, so I could redeem the reward for all of my hard work and dedication). But one of the guys that I have kept rejecting decided to sabotage that. Him and a couple other of my coworkers were supposed to take my place as trainer, so I could be promoted to manager. We all joked "oh yeah don't do anything dumb like stealing food to mess that up!" Guess what he did. Stole food on purpose, which is something that he knew not to do and has never done before. Complete sabotage because I have rejected him many times in the past.

Therefore since the reason I was going to stay is gone, I am no longer going to keep working there. My dad is completely unsupportive about the whole thing, so that makes things even harder. Why do I want to leave so badly? Good question. My boss bullies the heck out of me, mostly because she's unhappy and miserable. Just the entire job sucks in general, and I know that every job is going to have its bad parts to it- but I'm ready to leave this one. (this ended up being a paragraph of ranting but oh well it helped me analyze my thoughts)

Answer 2

A trip to an store close to my house something I always do it’s second nature to me and it’s something I always do because I want to or because I have been told to go to get something either something small as it’s not a big store it’s small tiny usually boring and one doesn’t think of the places one visits each time they become second nature second nature or third or fourth nature how many places one does visit and one doesn’t remember how the entrance actually looks like or the ceiling or the cashier’s hands one works with already created images when entering or recalling this places the usual photographs mental photographs of a regular old normal store what with their products and their lights and their price tags and the same for all the places even our houses our school places where we spent thousands of hours places where we don’t even know how we enter them how are the knobs arranged or the chairs or how the light strikes a window Nothing yes sure nothing in specific not a concrete experience of that place whatsoever but not today today I’m going to look at the cashier remember his hands the lights the ceiling was it broken or was it perfectly painted how does it look how does each place look and how my mind would work if I actually had the strenght to look at everything without preconceived images