Before submitting Write a personal narrative of 500–750 words. Your narrative should describe an event or experience that was important to you. Remember that your personal narrative will read like a story with you as the narrator. Write with your conclusion in mind, and include all the details your readers will need to understand the narrative and its ending. the assignment, make sure you have included

• a beginning, a middle, and an end

• first-person-point-of-view narration

• a setting

• dialogue to draw readers into the scene and to give information about actions and characters

• precise, vivid language that shows rather than tells

• events in a logical order with appropriate transitions

• an end that includes your narrative's point or the meaning it holds for you

• specific nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

• a variety of sentence types

Remember to submit your Planning and Organizing document when you submit your paper.

Select the correct answer. what opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasim recognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimes all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly became familiar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone did not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out: "we shall all of us die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate people. b. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth century. c. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. d. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.