Topics for a Narrative Essay

1. An embarrassing experience

2. A memorable wedding or funeral

3. An exciting minute or two of a basketball game (or

another sporting event)

4. Your first or last day at an immersion

5. A disastrous date

6. A memorable moment of failure or success

7. An encounter that changed your life or taught you a

lesson

8. An experience that led to renewed faith

9. A strange or unexpected encounter

10. An experience of how technology is more trouble

than it's worth

11. An experience that left you disillusioned

12. A frightening or dangerous experience

13. A memorable journey

14. An encounter with someone you were in awe of or

afraid of

15. An occasion when you experienced rejection

16. Your first visit to the countryside (or to a large city)

17. The circumstances that led to the breakup of a

friendship
18. An experience that showed that you should be
careful of what you wish for

19. A significant or comic misunderstanding

20. An experience that showed how appearances can

be deceiving

21. An account of a difficult decision that you had to

make

22. An event that marked a turning point in your life

23. An experience that changed your viewpoint on a

controversial issue

24. A memorable encounter with someone in authority

25. An act of heroism or cowardice

26. An imaginary encounter with a real person

27. A rebellious act

1. A brush with greatness or death

2. A time that you took a stand on an important issue

3. An experience that altered your view of someone

4. A trip that you would like to take

5. A vacation trip from your childhood

6. An account of a visit to a fictional place or time

7. Your first time away from home

8. Two different versions of the same event

9. A day when everything went right or wrong

10. An experience that made you laugh until you cried

11. The experience of being lost

12. Surviving a natural disaster

13. An important discovery

14. An eyewitness account of an important event

15. An experience that helped you grow up

16. A description of your secret place

17. An account of what it would be like to live as a

particular animal

18. Your dream job and what it would be like

19. An invention you'd like to create

20. A time when you realized your parents were right

21. An account of your earliest memory

1. Your reaction when you heard the best news of your life

2. A description of the one thing you can't live without