Narration: Recounting Events

Summary Quiz for “Writing about What Haunts Us”

Question 12.13

1. Read “ Writing about What Haunts Us” and summarize the selection below. Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this reading selection:

Orner tells of stealing a pair of expensive gloves from his father, toward whom he felt fear and anger. As he grew older, Orner came to understand his father better, yet he could not bring himself to return the gloves. Over the years, Orner has tried to write a story about the incident without success, but writing the story as nonfiction has helped him confront the truth of his motivation for stealing the gloves and has finally brought him closure.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.