Theme: Isolation, acceptance, dreams
Techniques used: Repetition of text, Use of questions, First Person POV, Clouds, Absence of Quotation Marks, Personification, Twist Ending, dialect.
Explanations
Trinabh Banerjee
(It could have been a UFO, but that’s debatable)
It was a chilly, winter night. Chilly, chilly, we walked back to the parking garage, across the large plaza. The clouds were becoming a little thicker, and the one that looked like a Steve, moved across the sky, grey and pale. The plaza was deserted. Apart from the few cars on the main road, a few people on the fringes, of course. I rubbed my hands together. It was cold, and our plan meant we wanted to get inside the car as quickly as possible. Like all plans though, that wasn’t going to happen. ওটা কী? I asked to my dad, my finger pointed to a large circular object in the sky. What is that? আমি জানি না, he replied. I don’t know. As we walked a little faster, the strange shape began to follow us. Or what seemed to be following us. I told everyone to stand still. I looked up again. Even Steve the cloud looked menacing. I gave a direction. Everyone was to take 3 steps forward, one at a time. The object remained… motionless, awkwardly frozen in mid-air. I was the last in line. With menacing Steve the cloud and a strange object looking down upon me, I stood for a …show more content…
Thud. The ground shook with anticipation. I took that final step. I took a breath. In and out. Everyone was across. The object, remained motionless. Frozen. And then it moved the three paces we had taken. Ugh, I said. We kept moving, walking quickly to the parking garage. As we drove out, I looked out the back of the car. The sky was pitch black. Finally! The object was no longer following us. Yet, there was a sense of uneasiness. It didn’t feel right. Definitely, there was something wrong. I turned forward, and faced the front. I sneezed. I looked back again. There it was. The object had returned, in all its
Techniques used: Repetition of text, Use of questions, First Person POV, Clouds, Absence of Quotation Marks, Personification, Twist Ending, dialect.
Explanations
Trinabh Banerjee
(It could have been a UFO, but that’s debatable)
It was a chilly, winter night. Chilly, chilly, we walked back to the parking garage, across the large plaza. The clouds were becoming a little thicker, and the one that looked like a Steve, moved across the sky, grey and pale. The plaza was deserted. Apart from the few cars on the main road, a few people on the fringes, of course. I rubbed my hands together. It was cold, and our plan meant we wanted to get inside the car as quickly as possible. Like all plans though, that wasn’t going to happen. ওটা কী? I asked to my dad, my finger pointed to a large circular object in the sky. What is that? আমি জানি না, he replied. I don’t know. As we walked a little faster, the strange shape began to follow us. Or what seemed to be following us. I told everyone to stand still. I looked up again. Even Steve the cloud looked menacing. I gave a direction. Everyone was to take 3 steps forward, one at a time. The object remained… motionless, awkwardly frozen in mid-air. I was the last in line. With menacing Steve the cloud and a strange object looking down upon me, I stood for a …show more content…
Thud. The ground shook with anticipation. I took that final step. I took a breath. In and out. Everyone was across. The object, remained motionless. Frozen. And then it moved the three paces we had taken. Ugh, I said. We kept moving, walking quickly to the parking garage. As we drove out, I looked out the back of the car. The sky was pitch black. Finally! The object was no longer following us. Yet, there was a sense of uneasiness. It didn’t feel right. Definitely, there was something wrong. I turned forward, and faced the front. I sneezed. I looked back again. There it was. The object had returned, in all its