Have you ever faced death in your life? If you are asked to this question, you may think, "Why does she bring up such serious subject?" Interestingly, if you carefully go through your life history, you may find some life events that you consider so small, but actually it almost had taken away your life. The first essay that we read in class recalled me the event that I almost died.
It was a normal autumn day after school. I was 6-year-old girl, and was going to turn 7 very soon. I was very much delighted to be released from school but I had a small concern. I had to be home all alone by myself till her aunt came from work because my grandma went back to hometown to see her mother. I was trying not to think about all the ghost stories that I read on the books, and talked with friends. I told myself, 'It is not a big deal. You have done this several times. Auntie will come home soon and there are no such things as ghosts.' I took a big breathe when I unlock the front door with the keys. The house was full of darkness, and I felt that the ghost would pop up from nowhere in the house, and that feeling got me so frightened that as soon as I put my school bag on the ground, I ran out of the house.
"BUMP!" Out of sudden, my body floated in the air and then dropped on the ground. I realized I was hit by a truck. The driver jumped out of his truck and came to me, "Oh, my goodness! Kiddo, are you okay?" I do not remember what I said- or if I had answered to his question, but what I needed to do was to get my auntie informed of my accident. I unlocked the front door again and went inside the house, and called my aunt at work. "Auntie, this is Seo Young. I got something to tell you, it is not a big deal, but I just got hit by a truck in front of the house. " As soon as I finished talking, I fell into unconsciousness, I could hear what was going on, it was just that I was not able to move my body. Something came out of my left ear – blood. It was very unpleasant feeling, it was somehow sticky and unnatural. The truck driver took me to a hospital nearby, he was very nervous and scared, but then the hospital we first went to did not accommodate seriously injured patients, and I did not remember what happened next.
When I opened my eyes, I was lying on uncomfortable hospital bed, and my grandma and aunt looked so much worried. I was hospitalized in Yonsei-Sebrance. I do not remember the day I was hospitalized, I guess I must have fallen into deep sleep because of the medication. The next day, my doctor came in and talked to my family, he said I had a fracture in my cranium, and my family got so panicked. In order to get thorough examination of the brain, I needed to take MRI and they let me take sleeping pills so that I would not move during the examination. After examination, it was found out that the fracture had nothing to do with my brain. What is more, the doctor told us that it was really such fortunate thing that blood came out of my ears. If not, I could have been a vegetable person. My family felt grateful that it did not turn me into a disable person.
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ReplyDeleteOh my god...I was really surprised when I started to read the first sentence of the 3rd paragraph. Your writing really makes me imagine the situation you had experienced. I can picture each moment you wrote due to your appropriate use of dialogues and description. And I like the point that you make start with the question. It induced me to read more. Everything is good but the one thing I want to suggest is to write one more paragraph to end the essay more smoothly. It would be better if you write some lessons from that experience like family's love or something like that. :-) - From Shim Min Jung
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