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A Personal Narrative Essay
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He wiped off the slick sweat on the back of his neck, knowing it was his time to shine. Centennial Olympic Park surrounded him. The Bank of America Plaza towered to the East. He rubbed the back of his blood stained feet, shook off the blister pain, shoved his polished trainers on his feet, picked up his stick, and started for the other side of the field. He was in the big leagues now.
In May of 2013, my grandma was waiting in front of the preschool to pick up my little cousin when she was stabbed. Her killer’s name, Nahn at the time I only knew his first name. It was not until a few days later that I discovered his last name I was familiar with it because it was my last name, Dong. The reason I did not recognize his name was because the only Nahn I know I call him Uncle.
When Rainsford(protagonist) awoke in bed he had remembered the night as if it had happened 10 minutes ago. As the scenes of him and Zaroff’s fight replayed in his head a smile grew on his face. He knew what he did was right and that he is not a murderer, he did what he had to do to survive and save the others trapped in the cellular. He had forgotten all about the cellular and was determined to find out where it was to free the others and find a way off of Ship-Trap Island.(Setting) He knew he would have to do a lot of convincing to the people trapped and try to explain that he wasn’t like Zaroff and is only trying to help them.
On December 9th 1773 in a small little town right of the coast of boston lived a very young man named Matthew Thompson or Matt for short. Matt was a young 23 year old man with short beard & hair with crystal blue eyes that lived in a small little house at the edge of boston. Matt worked at the harbor fixing sails and working on the hull of ships. Matt had moved to america at a the age of 15 and ever since have been helping his parents and working at the harbor. His parents beth thompson and troy thompson were in the military, well at the time was just a militia.
Gary Kinder’s book, Victim: The Other Side of Murder, offers a disturbing record of the murder and attempted murder of five individuals in a murder/robbery planned by an individual who should have never been free to commit such a heinous crime to begin with. Kinder’s book allows the reader to essentially get into the heads of the people who must experience the fallout of this devastating event, and offers a unique perspective on how the indirect victims of crime can be impacted just as direct victims are. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of a father, Byron Nasibitt and his son Cortney Naisbitt; one an indirect victim of crime and the other, a direct victim, both of whom were forced to deal with the devastating effects
“Whitney? Whitney! Come back! Please, not again!” Screamed Rainsford, voice hoarse from his constant cries. Rain pounded on him, and the midnight-like sea was trying to pull him into its depths.
Henry Bailey suffered from bronchial troubles. He would cough and cough until his narrow face turned scarlet, and his light blue, derisive eyes filled up with tears; then he took the lid off the stove, and, standing well back, shot out a great clot of phlegm – hss – straight into the heart of the flames. We admired his for this performance and for his ability to make his stomach growl at will, and for his laughter, which was full of high whistlings and gurglings and involved the whole faulty machinery of his chest. It was sometimes hard to tell what he was laughing at, and always possible that it might be us. After we had sent to be we could still smell fox and still hear Henry's laugh, but these things reminders of the warm, safe, brightly lit downstairs world, seemed lost and diminished, floating on the stale cold air upstairs.
Off and On I, Kevin Sandersons, am not a genius. I simply am determined to succeed in my future, yet my grades and actions in class imply the future Einstein is present, according to my classmates. But that’s not how I visualize myself. I’m 13 years old and I live in Charleston, SC.
One stray bullet put me in the hospital for 4 months; the other bullet killed my friend. I had known him ever since I was 5, and knowing that his mother was not ever going to see him again just made me mad. I thought about revenge several times but then I thought that is the not right thing to do and ever since then I have been wondering about that night he died, when he was dying in my arms and I was telling him he would be
Yando stood out to me the most because he always felt compared to his older sibling. Dan-el having done so much school wise, Yando became jealous of how much attention was given to Dan-el. “I don’t want to be here! Everyone talks about Dan-el, about how cool he is or how smart he is and how I should be like him! Everyone keeps asking me if I’m applying to Princeton!
They recognize me as big cass, but my actual name was Colin Cassady. I’m seven feet tall, 275 lbs and a wrestler. My best friend and partner Enzo armor he is 5 feet 11 inches and 200 lbs he started it with me and I hope he will eat with me. This week me and my family will go to Gatlinburg black bear cabins to have fun, why I’m here and fine. “This is a nice place, ” he said with the wind messing up his hair, sand between his toes smelling the sea water, hesitated “Let's take a selfie and post it on instagram ”.
Ya’ know that feeling you get when you realize something bad is about to happen, but you don’t wanna accept it cause you want to pretend like everything’s alright and everything’s gonna be A-okay? I can’t count how many times I’ve felt that way considering all the trouble I done got myself into in my short amount of time. Growing up as Dallas Winston, the tough guy with no heart, has always been hard for me. Sometimes (maybe all the time), I try to act tough and fearless and I want to look real rough-looking so people don’t mistake me for being “soft”.
I spent my days after the incident gazing at the sunsets. For ear I could see Johnny’s smile within the clouds. Darry wanted to host a funeral for Johnny and Dally. To be honest, I was troubled about this. I couldn’t bare the fact I might have to have to go through this again.
“Sir, sir wake up now.” I couldn’t understand him very well he looked like he was eating something. “Get out of here you stupid jerk.” said the strange man maybe even a guy in college. I looked up and asked him where I was and he said a group of people in long black robes dropped me off and I was passed out.
She continues, “I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6th, 1973.” (Sebold 1). As the story begins to unravel, the reader is shown how her death came about, and who was guilty of such a low crime. Normally, a young girl is taught by her parents to never talk, nor follow strangers; this wasn’t an exception