Reflective Essay: Malachi, Get Back To Work

“ Malachi, get back to work.” Joel said, his voice stern as always.
I flinched at the sound of his voice and quickly got back to reading my government book. This week has been especially hard for me to stay focused as it has only brought back memories of my past. It brought back memories of the things I promised myself I would not ever think about again. The pain I felt, it was just unbearable. But I knew I could not show it or else,... or else suspicion would start to arise, and that would mean trouble. Trouble for my family and I. I live in this so called perfect world, where everyone is happy except for me. Its as if I am the only person that feels any pain, and sees the flaws of our society. I read the first few sentences of the next chapter I was …show more content…
She stayed in this room for years as I grew up. She taught me how to talk and always told me stories but we never got to leave the room. I always wondered what it was like outside of the room and but whenever I asked if we could go outside, she would look at me, kiss me on the forehead and say “ Be brave my little boy. One day you will have the chance to go out.”. From that day on that was exactly what motivated me to get through the days in the dark, cold, and dusty room. Each day a man came in three times and would leave food for us but I never got see him. When I asked my mother about him she said it was a very nice and caring man that I would get to meet when I got older but she would never mention his name. At the age of ten my mother got the news that my father’s brother had died due to an accident. No one had yet known that he died so Jorge, my father, decided this might be my chance to have a normal life. My mother, Jorge, and my mother's husband agreed to put me under his identity so that I can try to live an ordinary life. For a week my mother prepared me to what the outside world would be like and what classes I was going to be taking. I was going to have to become a government