Personal Narrative: The Life Changing Experience Of Having A Baby

Innocence first proclaims itself when Sarah discovers that she is not returning home. Sarah’s behaviour and lack of understanding towards pressing information is a portrayal of how she has been raised to be quite naïve. These preceding traits are revealed when Sarah explains to her brother, “I’ll come back for you later. I promise.” (9). Here, Sarah proves her innocent nature as a result of being raised by her parents in an exceedingly structured way. Guilt emanates into Sarah’s moral conscience when her father confesses that “we are not going back. They won’t let us back.” (23). Furthermore, Sarah’s sheltered upbringing is proved to be true when she smiles at a boy during the roundup and he looks back at her like she’s crazy. She then thinks to herself, “Maybe [I] had got it all wrong. / … Maybe things were not going to

A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s

Someone somewhere turned off the sound system and switched on the emergency lights. Robert tried the door on the left. Locked. Then the one on the right. Unlocked. He pushed it open two inches, and then it hit something, something that moaned. Robert looked down and saw more blood. Real blood.

Two dark brown eyes, hooded by heavy lids turned in his direction and, despite his mental pep talk, his heart immediately fluttered with longing. But he quickly pushed the feeling aside and stepping into the room, he managed a watery smile. “Hey.”

After his lunch break, Tom didn’t have long to wait before the paramedics burst in through the swinging double-doors of the ambulance bay wheeling in a young man on a gurney. Edward, a veteran EMT, recited the vital signs to Tom and Dr. Greene as they helped push the gurney into the trauma room,

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

She is able to overcome her tribulation by accepting it and realizing these events will improve her future. Geneva, Saranell's mother, has recently passed away and the grief is crushing Saranell. “She gazed up at it, and the aloneness of the dark hills merging with the dark sky began to crush her. Tears ran from the corners of her eyes” (Carr 154). Sadness has overtaken Saranell.

As the book went on Sarah was forced to face the harsh reality and she witnessed thing some people never see in their lives; “she saw a dead baby , gray and waxen, like a shrunken doll, promptly hidden behind a dirty sheet”(45). Sarah was forced to grow up even if she didn’t want to. She was instantly changed as soon as she stepped foot in Vel’ d’Hiv; “From where the girl sat, she could see the dislocated body of the woman , the bloody skull of the child, sliced open like a ripe

I remember the day she born. I was nervous for the simple fact that my life would never be the same. Soon no longer would I be known as just Ayanna, I would take on a new title. A title that I would share with so many woman, and after eight long hours of labor, I would now be known to the world as mommy.

She wants to keep her promise and so she takes the responsibility to come back to Michel. She promises to her that she will find a way to save her brother: “I’ll find a way to go back and save him” (48). Soon, Sarah starts to wonder “how long could her brother survive”. Sarah also starts feeling guilty because she promised her brother she will be back to save him, and she knows that “he trusted her; he trusted her implicitly”(45). The feeling of guilt is always present, her brother is the only thing that “[haunt] her”.

She eats by herself for the first time in her life, and afterwards remarks on how she feels about it: “How strong, how full of life and hope I felt as I walked out of that bakery. I opened my arms, burning to hug the new day. The strength of a million people was struggling up in me” (157). The words “strong,” “life,” and “hope” epitomize Sara’s newfound freedom she feels after breaking ties with her family. She relates her feelings within to that of “a million people struggling up in me” and these people-filled descriptions of loneliness show that even though she is physically alone, her individuality is such a success to her life that being only with herself is still a triumph. Sara continues, “I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with the grandest company” (157). She mentions that she is finally “alone with [herself],” but starkly contrasts this isolated description with the feeling of “the grandest company.” Sara celebrates her individuality another time when she leaves college with enough money to rent a beautiful room. She describes how, “I celebrated it alone with myself. I celebrated it in my room, my first clean, empty room” (241). By saying she is “with” herself even though she is “alone”, Sara demonstrates again that her individuality is a success. She celebrates the luxury of being alone and overcomes the hardships of her past by embracing

​She turned away and took a deep breath, wondering how to say it, and when she finally started, her voice was quiet. “I’m pregnant. You remember Ian, right? He was our high school friend.” Lawrence sat in silence for endless minutes, staring at Daisy, unable to believe what he had just heard, yet believing it. He could see in her eyes that she meant every word she had said. “I’m sorry,” she said softly. He nodded understandingly.

“I, I, I’m sorry Roxy… I was just angry…” Miles stammered back a little as he listened to the horrifying story of her pregnancy. That must have been hell for her to go through. Miles had heard stories of how painful pregnancy was, but a c-section must have been even worse than an average pregnancy. “I’m sorry for not being there Roxy… You’re right as well he looks great…”

It was her stalker he was fast asleep. Valeria walks over to the clipboard with information about the patient. He’s name was Tom Flor, Valeria had recognized his surname before but couldn’t pin point it where from. Valeria continued flipping through the pages to read more information about him, she heard a voice from behind “Accuse me are you one of the nurses” Tom reached over to the table beside him to grab a glass of water. Valeria panicked, she imagined that the cup was a gun. Valeria thought to herself where is my gun when I need it the most. She imagined that Tom was about to shoot her but all along he was lying in bed. Valeria quickly took a pillow from a chair and held it down on his face trying to suffocate him. Tom woke up screaming and trying to remove the pillow from his face, Zena the night sister ran in “Valeria what are you doing? That’s my grandson!” Valeria turns around realising that his surname was the same as Zenas’. Valeria immediately removes the pillow from Tom’s face, staring at his pale face Valeria realises she could have killed an innocent person. “My grandson just told me last night that you were the girl he liked” Zena says to

“Who could imagine we admitted the wrong person”, said a nurse wearing just the same surgical mask.