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Personal Narrative: Summer Robinson's Life

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“He towered over me, glaring down at me with creepily dark eyes” (Preston 7). Little did Summer Robinson know that this man would soon be a huge, dark part of her life. It was a simple beautiful night; Summer was going to go meet at a club with her boyfriend and friends, and like every other night she decides to walk there, alone. As she walks in the dark, she hears and sees a creepy-old-walking-man ☺ saying “Lily” repeatedly, and soon calls her Lily. Feeling nervous, she tried to figure out an escape route, but he soon grabs her and takes her away. Now, she ends up in his downstairs cellar, along with 3 other girls: Poppy, Rose, and Violet. How long will these girls be trapped down there living Clover’s fantasy? Summer is a very interesting …show more content…

I was still the basic Summer Robinson; my hair was still a mess, and I still hadn’t yet decided on clothes to wear for tonight. I still had my perfect boyfriend, with perfect hair and a perfect personality ☺. “I started liking him when I was eleven. He would come home with Henry after football practice every week while his mum was at work” (Preston 3). Who would have ever thought we would be together for eighteen months? Honestly, it has been the easiest, and greatest eighteenth months of my life. Tonight we were going to go out to the club with all of our close friends. Lewis and my brother offered to drive me there, but I want to walk. I have been walking everywhere since I was just a little girl, and I wasn’t about to change that. It is going to be a night to remember, I can feel …show more content…

I have seen things from rape, to beating, to murder. Everything I have seen the last few days, I will never be able to erase from my mind. Today, Violet and I met in her room, and Violet confessed to me that she was planning on escaping tonight. To say the least, her plan did not work, and I lost one of the only people I can talk to in this cage. Now how am I ever going to escape from this place? There is no possible way I can do it on my own, and we all know Poppy and Rose will not help me. Soon, it is going to be my timed to get raped by Clover, and I think I would rather die than allow that to happen. I cannot live here anymore; everyday is getting crueler and more unbearable. I simply can’t do this anymore; I am giving up. In the novel, we can continuously see Summer giving up on herself, the girls in the cellar, and her family and friends. She has witnessed terrifying events that will forever stay in her memory. But, will Summer every escape from the cellar? I believe I deserve a 9.25/10 on this journal because I included good punctuation and different types of sentences, I tried to make it unique and personal, I also included smiley face tricks and used more than three

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