"Three Last Days" (essay)
If you have read the essay by Helen Keller, than you may notice a relation between her essay and mine. My Gr. 9 english teacher assigned us to make an essay sort of based on hers all the way back in September. Now i am supposed to make a third draft of the essay for a large chunk of my mark. Please give me as much feedback, critique, ideas, etc. to help me improve my story.(plz also take a look at my short story and give feedback on it too)
Here is my story
Three Last Days
As said by Helen Keller, humans normally do not use their senses to the best of
their ability. Say for example, someone driving by a beautiful park will not really notice
the astounding amount of flourishing colours in the flowerbed stretching along the side of
the park. But, if a person were to only have three days until one of their five senses were
lost it is most likely that the person will then pay a great amount more of attention to the
things they can sense with that particular sense. Another situation is if a person were to
die in three days and knew it they certainly would not live their life normally, going to
work everyday, coming home, eating dinner but would instead live it in the most extreme
way they could, either if it is getting together with their whole family to say their own
goodbyes or go bungee jumping and sky diving since there is no point in worrying about
a risk of dying.
If I were to die in three days I would not want to be relaxing on the sandy beaches
because I would not really be able to relax for I would die in three days but instead I
would want make the most of my three last days through thrilling things and unique
things that I would probably never get around to doing in my normal life. I would sky
dive, bungee jump and much more of the same sort.
The first day I would start planning out and making arrangements for the second
day as quickly as possible so no time would be wasted. I would talk to all my friends and
get them involved in my plans so my last days would be more enjoyable. Some things I
might plan out to do with my friends would be to have a humongous paintball game since
this is one of my most favourite hobbies. Then my friends and I would go sky diving,
which is something that would be a very unique thrilling experience. I would also go
white water rafting, which I have heard from many people is very exciting. Finally, for
the night we would rent a couple very scary movies to watch with a television outside in
the dark.
The second day will be the greatest day of them all. The day I would execute all
my plans! I would buy tons of paintballs to shoot at all my friends while playing capture
the flag. Next onto skydiving, getting pushed out of the plane by my friend who is getting
impatient! All of a sudden I am battling the white water waves with a paddle while
twisting and turning through the heaving, unmerciful rapids. Finally we would spook
ourselves out by watching the scariest movies that we could rent and those movies would
be watched… outside… in the dark… hopefully… gloomy night.
The third day I would tie up some loose ends. Who would get all of my prized
possessions? Of course, my friends would get all my prized possessions! I would be the
happiest to see my friends keeping those items that are precious to me. I would make
peace with people if I have to because I would not to create even more sorrow than there
would have to be. My family is one of the most important things to me and I cannot
forget them. I would dedicate myself to my family for the remainder of the day. Finally
the last pleasure of the three precious final days of my life, I would eat a filling, delicious
meal.
In an essay written by Helen Keller, she stated a philosophy that can make
people’s lives more enjoyable, “always live each day to the best of your ability as if you
would die tomorrow.” I think I will start tomorrow. I wander how expensive skydiving
is?
Once again, i ask you to please submit feedback to my essay, please.
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