Personal Narrative Essay: Charlie's House

Have you ever had a good or bad event that you can never forget or is hard for you to forget? Well i have. It was my first time going to Knotts Berry Farm, and the events that followed that were fun and funny.

The first day after Charlie picks up Raymond from Wallbrook, Charlie, his girlfriend, and Raymond stop at a hotel while on there way back to Los Angeles. Raymond is flustered about the hotel room since everything is not where he likes it and most of all he does not have a book to read. Charlie is busy on the phone not too concerned about Raymond’s concerns and he gives him a huge phone book at his brother not really expecting him to read it. Raymond is satisfied with it and reads it until he has to go to bed. The next morning Charlie and Raymond go to eat at a diner. Their waitress name is Sally Diggs and

I didn't always live in California. Before California I lived in Denver, Colorado. Before Denver I lived in Aurora, Colorado. When we moved to california we had a family of five. We moved to California, when I was six, Then we lived at my grandma’s house in Riverside for a year. We found a place on Ferree Street and that became our home.

All of a sudden the neighbors hear a car starting to start. It’s Les Goodman, one of the house owners on Maple Street, unaware of the situation. As he walks back to his house, his car starts up. As everybody rushes up to him in suspicion. They ask him questions

One night while driving in a new boy’s car, Connie sees a strange guy pointing at her but thinks nothing of it. On a Sunday afternoon, after staying home alone from a family barbeque, she hears a car coming up

Connie refused to go with and decided to stay home and washes her hair. After washing her hair, she decided to out on the sun to dry it and listens to music. Connie then sees the same car she saw when she was with Eddie; the gold convertible car with this strange person that pointed at her. This strange man asked her to come for a ride, but she told him I don’t know you. He introduced her to his friend which was in the car with playing the radio called Ellie.

Clemmie Sue pays Beth, gives her a dollar tip, and thanks her for making Estelle Louise’s birthday memorable. Beth shepherds them to the front door, shame engulfs her as she stands there watching them get into a battered pickup and drive off into the stormy night.

Charlie sits in the white wooden chair at the end of the two coffins, her youngest child on her nearly inexistent lap, while holding the hands of the children on each side of her.

After listening to their personal stories about the past, Charlie and Jenita began to discuss their concerns about their relationship, the children and Charlie’s sobriety. Considering Jenita felt the sobriety was affecting their relationship as a couple and as a family, the opportunity was given to her first to explain why she felt that way. She explained since they got back together, Charlie was outgoing, animated, engaging and fun. Not only did he plan dates with her, but he made sure they did family outings with the kids as well. It was also important for him to spend one-on-one time with their eldest daughter also. However, once the doctor highly advised him to stop drinking that is when she noticed he started changing.

As time moves on, she decides to drive over to the mailbox and check on Estelle Louise. Much to her surprise, the mailbox and Estelle Louise are not there. With darting eyes, she searches the area and soon discovers that Estelle Louise’s home is on fire. Panicking, she drives in a maniacal frenzy, up Estelle Louise’s slippery driveway. Once she reaches the top, she slams the brakes,

Christofer was asleep in the carriage but was soon awaken by cold and dirty tire splatter from a rushing SUV passing by in the street. Tamara froze in terror due to her child’s unfortunate mishap. Being the overprotective mother that she was, she put Christofer in her jacket and zipped it up. Tamara held Christofer with one hand in her jacket and pushed the carriage with the other. Regardless of her current situation, Christofer’s safety was her main priority. The last block was approaching after the cross light. With relief and little to no patience, she put Christofer back into his carriage and ran into the street with no sight or direction. She continually ran into the street and suddenly there was a loud screech followed by a massive thud. It appeared to be a Jeep with drunken tattooed Latinos speeding into the mother and her child’s direction. Christofer was knocked across the parallel streets side. Tamara was knocked to the ground, unconscious, without her child. The sirens blared loudly into the messy streets and knocked fallen autumn leaves into the air. The paramedics rushed to the accident

Charlie is a car salesman whose business is going down hill. Charlie and his girlfriend are on their way to Palm Springs when Charlie gets a call from his friend and co-worker. He tells him that his fathers'

Charlie and his wife lived in Paris during the twenties, and just as any other night they were out drinking and having fun. They get into a fight witch results in his wife, Helen, kissing another man. Charlie storms home, and an hour later when Helen has stumbled herself home, Charlie locks her out of their apartment and she dies soon after. Charlie has a breakdown and is institutionalized right before he looses all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. As the story opens three years later Charlie is back in Paris, sober, determined to get custody over his daughter, Honoria, who lives with Helens sister, Marion.

The main character in this novel, Charlie, is an interesting character that projects a unique personality and way of thinking. His thoughts and reactions are not common, therefore, as a reader, one can tell that Charlie is a peculiar character indeed. After many traumatic scenes Charlie stored in his own mind, he has lost control of his thoughts and emotions, ending in him getting a lack of confidence and depressive thoughts. Which indicates he has a type of mental illness for a reason he has not realized about yet. But the novel soon enough gives certain clues regarding Charlie’s background that, even though they seem vague or the character gives them little to no importance, are incentives to think Charlie has a mental disease. As the novel advances, the author clarifies for the readers that many of Charlie’s mortifications come from his past, his childhood.

The clock strikes 8:30AM and Charlie to gets out of bed to start their day. First, Charlie puts on their gym shoes on and heads over to the gym. While fitness and eating healthy are important to Charlie, they find time to burn those calories and hit those miles on their Fitbit. After the gym, Charlie gets ready for the day and watches the news in the background to stay current. There's never enough time in the day for everything Charlie wants to do. Charlie packs their schedule with a busy week and frees up the weekends so they can go out and enjoy all the things the city has to offer. After Charlie prepares their healthy lunch, they say goodbye to their partner and get back on the train. After a long day of classes or work, Charlie commutes