How to Write an Essay about Someone Who Influenced You

How to Write an Essay about Someone You Know, Who Influenced You, or Has Impacted Your Life

Introduction

Writing an essay about someone requires one to write about someone who you probably know or you have strong feeling about or inspire you. The feelings that you have towards such a person are the one that will color your observation. Your morals and values are the one that will shape your observation and interpretation. As you make observation that you put across be objective enough as you do it with a lot of honesty. How strong your essay will be will be determined by the way you display own perspective.

Instruction to follow when writing an essay about someone

• Through research is essential when writing an essay about someone. Go to the library or make online search in-case you are writing about a historic figure. In-case you want to write a family member you may be required to interview people who know them or are close to them.  Have writing material as you do research or have sound recorder.
• At the introduction section start by giving a story that reflects how you feel about the subject. For instance if you decide to write about someone who is close to you, you can talk about something she/he did that made you know their type.  When dealing with a famous person you can quote a phrase that that person said or wrote that makes you remember them. This will help your essay to have sense of direction and interesting to the reader.
• At the body of your easy is where you give details about that subject. Relate the subject with an event you wrote in a concrete manner. In the case you are dealing with a historic figure, give some historic information that can help the reader understand that person well.
• Discuss what you have learned from the subject an experience or moral lesson you got from that person. In-case the subject hurt you in any way discuss the impact that it left you with. In-case the subject is historic figure show how history has been affected either positively or negatively, what example did the person display and to what effect could that have to future generations.
• Finally proofread your essay to make correction and check out grammar and how well have the punctuation marks been used. Writing an essay about a person needs one to be relaxed and using conversational tone without being sloppy. For historic figures a lot of formalities are needed.