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Reliving Hell In All Its Glory Analysis

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Reliving Hell: In All Its Glory Life story- what a broad subject: does it begin with the moment you first took a breath, or does it begin with the moment you are old enough to remember, what about when you actually start living your own life? The truth is all of these answers could be correct; it depends on your choices and where to begin. With that being said, when Russ gave us this assignment I couldn’t figure out where I wanted to begin or what I wanted to say, at least not on one page. Yet, when I got home and started writing, I realized there was one particular year that made me who I am. That is one hundred percent of the reason why I am writing this and why I am here at UNF. My senior year of high school was definitely not a patch of …show more content…

However, that extremely daunting task of writing knowing that it was going to take a lot out of you emotionally is what makes it feel so important to write. Moving on, I noticed -when writing this essay, I had to take a few breaks and come back to it. Every time I wrote something that happened, the memories resurfaced, so as you read what I wrote you are hearing it for the first time; but for me, I was reliving it like it just happened. For example, when I scrivened “Driving the jeep home, was like the way my life had been for the previous year, suffocating and uncontrollable as the exhaust walked into my lungs.” (Babson) To this day, I can still smell that awful stench of the exhaust pipe; it was not fast and sudden like someone running into the car but it was a slow sneak, creeping into your lungs until all of the sudden you can’t breathe and didn’t even notice the change. That feeling of suffocation, and the uncontrollable loss, hit me as I was writing this. It was so unbearable, I often had to walk outside or go swimming just to overcome the claustrophobic feeling. Another example would be when I stated: “…but on the inside she was dying. Who could save her, from herself? That final sentence probably hit me the hardest when reviewing my life story; no one realized how much I had stored …show more content…

We are often referring to the Hell where they are damned to an eternity of burning alive and watching our lives play memories over and over again; but can that be the only hell? On the same note, we often hear people saying their life is hell and there are always two reactions. A) You nod your head sympathetically because you know they are going thru a hard time or B) you roll your eyes because their life cannot be that hard. These are the two reactions I would receive in that short year when I told people my life was hell, yet after writing my life story, and practically reliving it with the memories; I still believe it was my own personal Hell. This assignment literally expelled emotions as I was writing it, released the truth screaming inside and showcased the reason I am sitting in Jacksonville today. It was still my own personal Hell relived. While I never want to repeat this process, at least not for a while, I am glad for the opportunity to show everyone the reason I am a survivor and a fighter. That is why writing this assignment was so important. Do you see her, the girl hidden behind the

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