Death and Afterlife Reflective Essay Required contents A “final draft” of your story or poetry Try to keep your story/poetry’s final draft under 20 pages.

Death and Afterlife Reflective Essay Required contents

A “final draft” of your story or poetry
Try to keep your story/poetry’s final draft under 20 pages. Fiction should be double spaced. Poems should be single spaced but with space in between each so it’s clear where they end/begin. Try to give titles to each poem, too.
A reflective essay
4-6 pages, double spaced and with MLA formatting (heading, title, etc.)
Optional: any other additional exercises, rough drafts, or other writing that directly led to your final story/poetry

“Final Draft”

You’ll notice that the word “final” is in quotations, here. That means that your final draft doesn’t need to be THE final draft of your work, since it’s nearly impossible to develop a complete, polished draft in only a few weeks. Instead, think of your final draft as a strong revision of your most recent rough draft that you’d continue to revise if time permitted.

Note: while your “final” draft doesn’t need to be FINAL, it does need to be as complete as you can possibly make it: it should have beginning, middle and end, be as well-written as you can possibly make it, and be properly formatted and free of any errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

As the syllabus states, I will not grade you based on my personal creative preferences. Instead, I’ll look for strong evidence that you’ve actively engaged in the development of your story/poems. This evidence will include revisions of elements of craft in your work, the general sense I get that you’ve applied your knowledge of writing craft to make careful, deliberate choices in your work, and how much your work has progressed toward a completed draft. The contents of your reflective essay may also influence how I grade your creative work, since that essay will also show me evidence of the above criteria.

Reflective Essay

Write an essay that reflects on the writing process behind your creative work. I will use this essay to help me determine your grade on your “final” draft. The essay will be graded on how well you follow through on the requirements described below. In general, I’m looking for detailed answers to ALL of the prompts that clearly illustrate strong knowledge of the vocabulary terms and concepts we’ve learned throughout the semester. I’m also looking for an essay (not a freewriting exercise, or story, or poem, or Q&A) that is well-organized, focused, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Your essay should address all of the items listed below. There’s more than one way to organize these items into a coherent essay, so use your creative thinking skills to explore your options. Just be sure that:

Your final product is focused, well-organized, and coherent
It addresses all of the prompts below
You consistently illustrate and apply your knowledge of course vocabulary and concepts while addressing the prompts.

Essay prompts:

Where did your story/poetry come from? What specific things did you use from your Alien Anthropology, Creator’s Subject, or other course writing to generate the idea or subject of your story/poetry? How did you move from those original snippets of writing to a story/poetry idea to the story/poetry itself?
What discourse community does your work speak to, or for? What subject, issue, or conversation might your work contribute to within that discourse community? Be as specific as possible, here; I’m looking for detail and insight into how your work fits into a larger, already ongoing conversation within an established discourse community.
Describe the most significant revisions you made in your work, and the thinking behind those revisions (why you made the choices that you did, what you were experimenting with, or what you hoped to accomplish through your revisions). One thing you could do for this subtopic is look back at the workshop responses you received, and describe how/why you did/did not use those responses (this may include instructor feedback, too).
Describe the craft elements in your work that give it the most impact, and what you were trying to accomplish by using those craft elements the way you did. (This is where you show off your knowledge of writing craft, so use vocabulary terms you’ve learned, and be detailed with them. I encourage you to look back at the information on craft elements you’ll find within our Canvas site. Examine and reflect on how your knowledge and skills with writing craft have evolved over our semester together, and how your knowledge/skills of craft elements are illustrated in your creative work.)
In general, how did the writing process work for you? What challenges did you face as you wrote and revised? What risks did you take? What did you learn from any “mistakes” you made? What worked well for you? (This is where you should use vocabulary terms and concepts about creativity that we covered at the beginning of this course.)
Explain the specific revisions you could make to your final draft in order to further complete it after our class ends, and why you think these revisions would make your story/poetry truly finished and effective.
Imagine situations where skills in creative thinking/innovation might be useful or necessary in your academic discipline or career field. What concepts or skills from ENG 226 can you apply in those situations to help you solve problems, answer complicated questions, or innovate new ideas or solutions? (Look through the readings and exercises from the early weeks of our class to find specific ideas, skills, activities, etc., that can help you address this question. This prompt will ask you to use both critical and creative skills to apply what you’ve learned in our class to life outside of class. Creative Writing really does build skills beyond storytelling and poetry!) Death and Afterlife
There are many views on the possibility of life after death. Before we delve into them,
it is worth taking a moment to ask, Why? Why should we be interested in an afterlife—
whether it will or will not exist for us following death? And, if there is going to be some kind
of an afterlife, what is it going to be like? Some people think these questions should be asked.
Good heavens, how could one possibly not be asking them and wondering about the answers?
Yet, there are certainly plenty of others for whom the question never crosses their mind, or, if
it does, they have an answer built in that quickly squelches such questions or takes away the
grounds for such curiosity. After all, what’s really most important—and what is the only thing
we can really know for sure—is the physical life we are living right now!”
For someone responding in this second way, anything about life after bodily death has
to be simply speculation—impossible to ever prove. Or they are just taking someone else’s
word for it. That someone else might be a physicist or physician saying that nothing follows
death, or someone claiming to have had a near-death glimpse of the afterlife and believing it
to be real; or someone who received a description of the afterlife from a relative who had
recently died and was able to communicate back through a psychic medium; or a Catholic
priest speaking with authority and certainty about those of us who will be going to hell and
staying there forever. Let us concisely look, sequentially, at 3 likely groupings into which any
individual can fall concerning whether or not he or she is interested in the physical death’s
survival. First, there are individuals who are drawn for wondering regarding and being preoccupied with, the likelihood of whether or not one survives the physical bodies’ death and
what the after-life nature awaiting him or she will be if it does turn out that he or she
survives.
Second, there are individuals who are not concerned with the survival and afterlife at
all—who simply are disinterested, for whatever the cause is. And third, there are individuals
who feel they do not need to keep thinking or wonder regarding the death survival and an
afterlife possibility for the reason that they already know with certainty what awaits him or
her following death. Let us take these three categories in reverse order, starting with the last.
Most people in this third group hold such certainty because they have been conditioned or
personally convinced by a particular religious doctrine or upbringing that tells them what
they are to expect following death. They are then free to go about their daily lives without
having to worry about what is to follow earthly life. They know what will happen after death,
either because they were told so by an authority, or because they simply have faith in their
beliefs about what is to come. Other people in this category feel certainty about the afterlife
because they have already had some kind of direct personal experience that has convinced
them that when death does come, their existence will continue. This includes those who have
been through an NDE, which involves a life-changing glimpse through the threshold of death
and, briefly, on into what lies beyond.
The human beings’ modern species changed for carrying progressively complex brains
and attained the capacity for wondering regarding logical, deeper causes of their survival on
Earth, religion, and culture also progressed for answering their questions. Expectedly, the
probability of life after death particularly intrigues the mind of humans because ubiquitously
death impacts every living organism. Unavoidably, it will eventually claim everybody.
Though, as no one has yet been capable of returning and revealing the processes the soul
experiences after passing, the death topic is still masked in wonder, doubt, and mystery. Not a
single living individual is aware of the events of postmortem that took place to somebody
after death; one can only speculate them. Reasonably, theories have been formed by different
religions over the millennia regarding an afterlife to try for accepting and understanding the
death concept. Science, in more modern times, has also framed its own hypotheses regarding
life’s existence after death. Both Islam and Christianity have related views of life after death
grounded on their core principles. From the Holy Bible, the ideology of Christianity stems.
Though a number of dissimilar Christian values hold their own belief differences, they
generally all agree that a Day of Judgment will work out when God descends upon earth
along with evaluating every individual grounded on the actions performed by them
throughout their lifetime.
A soul rises to heaven when the sins are forgiven by God. In heaven, the soul can enjoy
God’s presence along with escaping every form of suffering for time without end. Sinners
and non-believers spiral down in the direction of Hell to be punished forever. Hell is often
described as a fiery misery dungeon while Heaven is portrayed as a supremely peaceful
sanctuary. Islamic doctrine, like Christianity, is embedded in Qur’an, it’s own Holy Book that
there would be a Day of Judgment. The Islamic name for God, Allah will revive the deads
and either punishes or rewards every individual for his actions throughout life. With the
intention of reaping the rewards in the hereafter, people learn to sacrifice temptations and
pleasures in their existing lives on earth. Every individual who faithfully observed Islamic
doctrines preaching activities, for example, kindness to every individual and worshipping
Allah faithfully are sent to Jannah, “paradise.” On the other hand, unfaithful people to Islamic
principles sent to Jahannam, hell. The division in which the souls are placed by God will be
the resting place for an unlimited time period.
When I was a kid, I used to listen to the tales from my grandma. She used to tell me
about heaven and hell. In my childhood, I thought that heaven and hell are just imaginary and
they do not exist in reality. My views about heaven and hell were not changed until I
experienced everything by myself. Life is unpredictable, and death is uncertain and certain at
the same time. We are uncertain that when an individual will die; however, we are certain
that everyone will die one day. I was always curious about what happens when a person dies,
what are the different stages that he or she has to go through to reach his or her final
destination, i.e., heaven or hell. My story is related to the accident that I met, and it further
relates to what I experienced after my death.
I remember seeing flashing lights and hearing people crying. I could not move. One
second I was in the car with my family and the next second everything went blurry. All I
could do is look up. I heard the faint screams of my mother as they put me into what I
assumed to be an ambulance. The last thing I heard was the paramedics saying, “We are
losing him.” Then everything went black.
I woke up in line with thousands of people. In front of the room, there were two doors,
green and red. I looked down at what I was wearing and saw it was green. I had no idea what
was going on or where I was. I asked the person in front of me what was going on, and they
told me we were dead. They explained that this was the line to go into the afterlife. The green
door led to heaven, and the red door led to hell. He also explained that the color of the clothes
you were wearing corresponds to where you go. After hearing this, the first thought that
rushed through my head was what happened to me and how did I die? All I wanted to do was
see my family and friends.
As I slowly moved up in the line, I began to feel overcome by nervousness. Finally,
after what seemed like months of waiting, I got to the front of the line. I was escorted by a
friendly looking woman through the door.
The second I walked through the door I felt happy and excited. All my feelings of
sadness and nervousness completely disappeared. I was put into a group of about 15 people,
and we were given a tour of heaven. It was beautiful. There were white sand beaches and
beautiful houses everywhere I looked. I also see many canals of honey and milk. The people
living there were very satisfied, and their faces were very bright. Moreover, I saw big
beautiful green gardens over there. There was no limit to those gardens as I could see them as
far as my eyes could see. I noticed that it was like a town where every person was living a
happy life and had no sorrow and tensions that he or she has faced in this world. Even though
I was dead, it felt like I had just been reborn. Near the end of the tour, each person was given
a chance to find out how they died. I really wanted to know, so I asked. I found out I had
been in a car accident.
When the tour ended, I was given a key to my new house. It was basically a white
palace made of white marble, and it was an enormous beach palace with a pool and hot tub. It
was explained by the tour guide that my house is custom built to my favorite things. Since I
loved the beach, I was put in a town near the beach. I decided to get some rest because I was
very tired.
The next morning, I woke up and walked to town to get some breakfast. There were so
many choices of food that I could not figure out where to go! After I got breakfast, I went to a
place called the looking glass. This was a special place that allowed you to look down at the
world and watch over the people you loved. I was able to see my family and watch what they
were doing. Even though it seemed kind of creepy at first, it felt amazing to be able to see the
people I missed so dearly.
Months later I had made so many new friends and was living my new life to the
fullest. Every day I would go to the looking place and watch over my family. Even though I
couldn’t be with them physically every day, it was amazing to be able to see them grow and
prosper. Once I accepted that I was dead and realized that there was nothing to do to change
it, I was able to have fun and enjoy all the things heaven had to offer.

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