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Try or Die- Personal Narrative Essay

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Try or Die- Personal Narrative Funny thing, crime is. Some do it for fun; others are forced into committing it. A crime always means that there is someone who ends up hurt, upset or even killed. I, of course was one of those people forced into committing it. Personally, I am, or should I say was a nice person and it would break my heart to bits to see a person suffering in any sort of way. But I had no choice. It was a matter of life and death for me. A situation of “do or die”. I had no other options. I know I should have died rather than do what I did. I was foolish. Very foolish. Here is how my series of unfortunate events unfolds… It was dark. It was cold. There was a …show more content…

I had to go and live on the streets, and because of this, I couldn’t get a job and work for money. So where else to go other than the cold, heartless world of crime? What other options had I? So now here I was, in this ill-fated situation, stealing other people’s hard earned money in order to live. You may have worked out what I was about to do. Yes, that’s right. I was going to rob a bank. The plan was to find a way into the bank from either of its two doorways. I was going to do this by picking the locks on one of them. I also had a map, a torch and a knife (the tool I was going to use to pick the lock with) to assist me in my quest for the safe. If I did run into any trouble, and I was going to get caught, the plan was to find the nearest, most suitable place and conceal myself there. I had to be out by half past seven at the latest if I was to avoid getting caught. I had planned this for too long and was determined not to let any ill- fortune befall me. I had had bad luck for too long and was not going to let a little ill- fortune ruin my chances of becoming rich. I walked up to the vast metal doors of the village bank and pressed my cheeks against their gigantic metallic frame. I felt the cold sensation trickling down my cheeks and down to the rest of my body. It felt

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