Not So Great of an Example

          The literary narrative Proficiency by Shannon Nichols was about a girl who failed her writing section of her proficiency test. Even after retaking the test she failed it, only to succeed on her third attempt. This article is not an adequate example of a literary narrative because of several negative characteristics. I was not all that impressed by this paper's word choice. The organization and sentence fluency were not outstanding either. But most importantly there was no real purpose to the narrative.
           After reading Proficiency I was left confused because I had not gained anything from it, I was bored and it was not clear what the purpose of the story had been. The article just goes on about how she failed the writing portion of the test twice and then passed it the third time. The style of writing made me disdain the narrator because of the sense of self-absorption I received. Also after watching The Case Against "good" and "bad"  video in the Vocabulary topic on the English class page, I realized how dull the articles vocabulary is. I now understand why Proficiency had not been one of the ones assigned.