Narrative Journalism -When Your Dreams Die

1. Well in the story that I read, I feel like the writer in order to make the story feel like more than just following one person around, did a good job of including family members, friends, and even coworkers. Since it was someone narrating the story, it gave the reader and advantage of not just seeing a story through someone's eyes, but seeing and feeling emotions among other people.

2. Well the author seems to be narrating the story, which does include him a lot in the story, voice wise. However opinionated wise and thoughtful wise, he did a great job of letting the story do its job and not trying to hint the reader the exact meaning of the story but letting the reader read and find out for themselves. Which the writing was excellent, and the meaning wasn't that hard to find.

3. In this story, there is well use of drama and order. Which were the two that really stood out. Drama, allowed the reader to see the story in obviously, a more dramatic view. We notice it at the moment when the author explains the hate phone calls the ref gets, the feelings that were explained on how the wife felt when she saw the empty pill bottles in the restroom, and one of the most dramatic scenes, was when he was writing the suicide letter along with how he started feeling when he was taking pills and how he knew it was a stupid thing to do. This then follows in with the order the story was out in, we notice that in the beginning the author decided to add the scene of the main subject walking with the suicide letter, to the shed, and the pocket full of pills he had in his pocket, after explaining that scene the author then moved on to the story, which was kind of a hook for the reader to want to keep reading more. This shows 2 literary devices hawthorn explained in his books.

4. The author seemed to use a lot of sources, from the subject himself, to coworkers, family, friends and maybe even enemies. Therefore I estimate that the author had about 12-15 people at least that he interviewed for this story. He wrote the story as someone narrating it so, he 100% had to ask the subject how he was feeling at every single scene and how others were feeling, plus what they said, did and thought. The author did a great job narrating, so effort was for sure evident in this story.

5.  "Melissa felt a pain in her stomach." - Here we notice that the author must have asked how this person felt at the moment they found out that her husband had taken a handful of pills and told his daughter that he was going for a "walk".

"..Gerdes slapped him, slapped him hard shook him." - Here we see that the author must have asked the person slapping him, why they decided to do that and how they felt in that moment. This quote I thought what strong because we see the anticipation and anxiousness from the character because we see that this person really wants the other to live.

"If it happens, it happens' Kenny says."- Here we see Kenny moving on. So more likely the author asked questions like how did he feel after everything that happen and how he moved on and maybe what his motto was afterwards.