I found in this essay that the author, Galen Strawson, of “I am not a Story” seemed to be using other authors who have a different opinion to his own mostly, and sort of bashing them in a way. I thought that his language came across as fairly harsh. He often uses the word “normal” to describe people, implying that there is an abnormal percentage of the human population as well. It is unclear how he would define normal and abnormal people, and I would like to know where he draws the line.  I read it as a rude use of the word normal because I felt he was not strong in his argument. I also found that he was attempting to call others out for generalizing the narrative perspective as applying to all people, and then he immediately proceeded to apply his own opinion universally in the following paragraph. I did not find myself relating to his ideas very much throughout my reading of “I am not a Story”. I feel that I have naturally just thought about my life in short episodes or stories that have added up to create my self-narrative.  My overall reaction to his work was that I felt as though he was in a very defensive mode, although no one was giving him any reason to feel the need to defend himself.  I think his overall tone of the essay made it hard for me to be open to agreeing with his points.