Narrative Essay About A Gift

In our lifetime we may come across many experiences which we only know how to handle because of the way we were taught by our families. My family consists of two brothers, my mother, father and myself. Everyone stayed with my grandmother in West Humboldt Park except my dad who lived alone. My mother was who i looked up to all my life. I knew that no matter how mad I was with her, she’d always find a way to make me forget. She could make any day brighter with her smile and she taught me so much. It was December 24th of 2004, my father and I went out to buy my mom a gift. This year I got to pick out the gift that would be from me and my two older brothers. As we walked through the store I was excited because I saw the perfect gift the week prior to. It was a maroon jewelry …show more content…
I knew it meant something went wrong, but I didn 't think anything of it. We sat on the couch throwing pillows at each other as A Charlie Brown 's Christmas played in the background. The room was lit only by the t.v and the lights seeping into the window from the ambulance. As we sat pondering about what could 've happened my uncle who lived in the back room rushed passed us with the look of despair on his face and his coat and shoes in hand. That 's when my heart dropped and I then knew something terrible had happened. We ran after him up the dark stairway and my grandmother stopped us and in a taut voice instructed us to go back downstairs. We kneeled on the couch peering out of the small window in silence as the ambulance passed by with its sirens wailing. As it passed my dad peered into the room and instructed us to come sit in the living room upstairs. As we followed behind him he told us how my mother had gone to the hospital because she had an asthma attack. When he said that I was lost for words because it was always something she struggled with and everyone knew