Self Story

Self-study assignment
Zicheng
Univ-105i-01
Feb 29, 2015
Professor Millard, Nate
Part one
The theory of narrative identity postulates that individuals form
an identity by integrating their life experiences into an internalized,
evolving story of the self, which provides the individual with a
sense of unity and purpose in life.( McAdams, D Pg5). So a narrative
identity always is a story with characters, episodes and other details.
Works sited: McAdams, D (2001). "The psychology of life
stories". Review of General Psychology 5
Part two
My name is Zicheng, I come from Shanghai, China. I grew up
in that city, studied in that city, made most of my friends in that city
and I love that city. Id like to share a personal story of my own wity
you today
What kind of person I am? Im mot spider man, Im also not
iron man, but I will name myself surprising man. My parents always
think Im a cute boy when I was small. Even now my mom still call
me PangPang---not my nickname but they think this name is
funny. Some day, my mom called me from China, she told me she
missed me very much, we didnt met each other like 3 months, I
never left her like this long time before. I told her I miss you, too.
She cried and started to recall the past, then, she told me she still
can remember that moment how surprised she was. When I was
10 years old. A sunny days afternoon, I went out from school with
my classmate, I still remember the last class that day was math,
and I wore our schools uniform-a blue jacket and black trousers. I
always went home by bus, my classmate took the bus with me at
the same station but not the same bus, it cost me like 45 minutes.
When the bus arrived the stop where was nearby our house, I still
needed 10 minutes to walk home. On the way home, suddenly I
got an idea. I wanted to give my mom a surprise! I didnt have my
own cell phone that time, so I went to a small grocery store which
was nearby our house and I used the phone service in that store to
call home. My father went to work, so every time I finished my
school, only my mom would at home and waited for me to have
dinner together. As expected, she picked up the phone and say
Hello, I said : Hi mom. Im PangPang, now I just go out from the
school and prepare to go to the bus stop! I will arrive home in 45
minutes. She said: Ok, Im waiting for you ! Then she hung up
the phone . I just spent 3 minutes to reach a corner beside our
house and I put my head out of that corner stealthily, softly,
noiselessly. Thanks god, as usual, I saw mom was watching TV
inside the living room. I walked by the wall as quiet as I can and
then knocked the window Dong! Dong! Dong! My mother turned
her head and saw me dancing like a pig outside the window! She
was so surprised and said Oh my god! in Chinese.
The story is over and I think Im a person who want to have a
happy life and Im also a person who want to bring happiness to
others. In my opinion, the purpose why we live in this world just
because of several words: LOVE, RESPONSIBILITY, and
HAPPINESS. I really believe a word: If we bring happiness to
others, others will bring happiness to us. If we bring happiness to
others, happiness will bring others to us. Even now Im in America,
I need to use English to communicate with others, I still want to do
my best to surprise you!
Part three
I selected some detail information like that days weather, my
clothes style and the person I went with. Because I thought these
information would be helpful to show the environment and situation
to the readers. And I also want to describe my mom but I didnt,
since I thought describing her movements is enough to show
readers about her. Then, the most important detail must be the
math class, it meant that I was very tired that day, but I still wanted
to surprise my mom.
In this story, I was just a son of my mother, what I did was for
my mom. After reading, people might be think Im a funny people.
And the most important thing I think we need is happiness, so of
course happiness was mentioned in this story. Although other
things like love, life, courage and so on are also very important in
everyone s life, I still think the most essential is happiness since I
think happiness is include everything.
My story happened when I was 10 years old, so I used the
past tenses in my story, my story was really a deep memory in my
mind. But I think this kind of story will happen in the future, too. I
will bring much more surprises to people who surround me.
Happiness will exist in my life all the time even I am going to old.
Nowadays, With the competition becoming increasingly fierce,
people are burdened with mounting pressure. Their life is filled with
numerous work. In order to stay competitive, they have to work
very hard, which leaves them less time to accompany family and
friends. I dont want to become like this, so I do my best to find
opportunities to have fun, and I also want to let my parents and my
friends become happy. This is me, a happy person for me and for
other people.
Part four
After I discussing with my friends and my group, I consider
that identity means what a person has in his or her soul, what kind
of people he or she is, and I think everyones identity is unique.
People have a lot of personalities, and all of these personalities
combine together and become all of the people in this world. But
every one must have different combination of personalities, these
personalities comes together will created a new kind of personality,
and this is identity. Another interpretation of identity is every people
have different thought. Even when twins saw the same thing, they
would have different thoughts in their brain. So every time people
thinking, it will impact his mind, and in the end, the identity would
be created. I arrived at this definition several years ago, I had a
similar project in my Chinese high school, of course that one was
much easier than this one, I did not need to use English and I also
did not need to write many pages, but our teacher still let us to
think about this question, after we answered his question, he told
us this answer, I still remember he told us every people was unique
because of their different personalities. Some people are quiet,
some people are noisy, some people are optimistic, some people
are pessimistic. But in one kind of people, they are different, too.
Some people they are hardworking and fickle, some people thay
are hardworking but they are calm. I think what my teacher told us
was right, we could not find two same people just like we could not
find two same leaves from all the trees, two same stones from all
the world.
I really like this assignment, it will let people review
themselves. Now, I certainly know who I am, what kind of people I
am!

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