Kalea Delgado Ms. Lehmann English 2-1B 9 October 2019 Thanksgiving Day As we stepped out of the car, you could smell the fresh baked rolls in the air. My mouth was watering, and I was so hungry. I didn’t eat breakfast that morning. I had to save room for Thanksgiving lunch. I walked in and greeted everyone. “Happy Thanksgiving!” Grandma said. “I’m surprised you guys weren’t late.” Everyone laughed. Allie and I walked into the living room to find the majority of my cousins sitting. “Hey guys,” Kyah said. “Hi,” we replied in unison. “Let’s eat!” Grandma yelled. Everyone went into the kitchen and dished up a plate. Once we were all done eating, we walked outside and talked. My cousins and I went and played a game of football. My team won by a lot. “Do you want to stay the night at my house?” Kyah asked. I replied excitedly, “Yeah! Let me go ask my mom first.” I walked over to my mom. “Can I stay the night at Kyah’s house, please?” I asked. “Please? I never get to stay at her house.” She looked at me as she thought about it. It seemed like forever before she finally replied. “I don’t care.” “Sweet! Thanks!” I said. We stepped out of the car onto the gravel driveway. The dogs were barking and jumping on the fence. You could barely see the dogs since it was dark. We walked inside the house and went into my cousin’s room. “We should sleep on the trampoline tonight,” Kyah said. “Okay,” I replied. We grabbed all the blankets and pillows we could find and walked outside. I made it on the trampoline and Kyah was handing me the blankets and pillows. As she handed me the last pillow, her dog, Macy, came running over to her. Macy burrowed her teeth into Kyah’s leg, and she let out the loudest scream I have ever heard. I was in so much shock, I could barely move. I hopped off of the trampoline and pried Macy’s mouth from Kyah’s leg. Her leg, dripping with red, was injured. She let out a loud scream and began to cry. As I ran into the house, I yelled, “I’ll go get your mom!” I stumbled into the room. “Kyah’s leg…” I gasped for air. “It’s bleeding!” Her mom jumped out of bed, and we ran outside. Kyah was lying on the ground. We picked her up, wrapped a towel around her leg, and drove to the hospital. As we arrived at the hospital, Kyah quit crying and got used to the throbbing in her leg. I walked around the car, opened her door, and gave her a piggyback ride into the emergency room. They took us back into one of the rooms, and the doctor came in immediately. “We need to get started quickly so she doesn’t have a chance of getting an infection,” the doctor said. They had her lay down on the bed and she rolled up her pajama pants to get to the wound. The nurse came in with a huge needle and poked it into her leg. Then, they rinsed out the wound with alcohol. Kyah gritted her teeth to prepare herself for the pain she was about to experience. “This is a really good bite. That dog must have really had her grip on you,” the doctor said. The doctor informed us, “We’ll we have to put in 6 stitches to close this wound up, then you’ll be good as new.” They got their procedure ready and began stitching her leg shut. This was the craziest Thanksgiving day I’ve ever experienced and I learned to always be careful because the unexpected could always happen.
Personal Narrative Reflection
Please answer all questions in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific. First, I had to come up with ideas to decide what my topic would be for this essay. I wrote down times where I felt happy, sad, scared, etc. From there I chose to write about the time my cousin got bit by her dog. Then, I wrote down an outline and labeled where I had to put in imagery, dialogue, and show don't tell. Finally, I wrote a rough draft and then revised it once it was graded.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them? I used dialogue, imagery, and show don't tell. I had a conversation between me and my cousin for dialogue. I also described her bloody leg to show imagery and showed how her leg was bleeding instead of telling the reader, "Her leg was bleeding." 3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part? I think that overall my story was good, but the part I liked best was when Kyah got bit by her dog. I used "show don't tell" really well in that paragraph.