Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hey Mr O, I can write!

Is it easy to love the father you never saw? There are a lot of sufferings, failings, difficult situations, and problems in our lives but the question consists in how we overcome them. It is like a soldier who lost a foot in the war and came home, trying to live despite of all contributions, and just being happy that he is alive. Likewise Lucie, who is happy that her father is alive and with her right now, however she never met him. I want to speak up on behalf of Lucie. Lucie is a character from Charles Dickens's book "A Tale of Two Cities". I want you to picture Lucie's story, and to feel the way she felt. My name is Lucie Manette. I was raised by my mother in English traditions. All my childhood and youth I considered myself as an orphan because I thought I don't have a father until I turned twenty years old, when I found out that my father is alive. My life changed completely from this moment. My life was divided into two parts, "before" and "after". I was confused what I should do in the future. At that moment, I had to make a big decision whether I believe that it is my father, to love him and be his daughter, or not excepting this person knowing that he is my father. But for me, the only option was to accept him because I already loved him. When he first saw me you could see it in his eyes that he did not understand what was going on, he didn't know who I am but he recognized me by my mother's hair. When I was looking at him, my heart was full of love and pity. I thought that I was waiting for this moment for my whole life. Here is my father, who never was in my life, and never knew me. I was deprived of his love and care, but at this moment I precisely knew that I want to be with my father, I want to know him, and to be ready to do everything to help him to return to normal life. Lucie's loving, thoughtful decision changed her life in beneficial way to do everything possible for her father to come back to normal life brought a powerful change in his life. He started forgetting the terrible part of his life when he was in prison, thanks to his lovely daughter who except him in spite of risk that he is a stranger. For Dr.Manette, Lucie was a light to his world. She gave him a strong will to live which made him a new person.



The tone I use in this essay is strong but is weak at times because of the sad story. One of my favorite strong quotes with a strong tone is "He started forgetting the terrible part of his life when he was in prison, thanks to his lovely daughter who except him in spite of risk that he is a stranger". One of my favorite quotes with passion is " All my childhood and youth I considered myself as an orphan because I thought I don't have a father until I turned twenty years old, when I found out that my father is alive". In this essay I also use figurative language. A type of figurative language that I use is a simile. A simile where I compare Lucie to a soldier "It is like a soldier who lost a foot in the war and came home, trying to live despite of all contributions, and just being happy that he is alive. Likewise Lucie, who is happy that her father is alive and with her right now, however she never met him". I mostly have simple sentences, as you can see throughout my essay, because I wanted to make sure that the reader would not get depressed because of the overly sorrowful story. A place where I have a detail is when I talk about Lucie’s loving decision "Lucie's loving decision to do everything possible for her father to come back to normal life brought a powerful change in his life". In this essay I tried to use a simple diction so that normal average people would be able to understand my writing without having to look up words. My favorite imagery in this essay is in the sentence "Lucie's loving, thoughtful decision changed her life in beneficial way to do everything possible for her father to come back to normal life brought a powerful change in his life". 





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