Melisa-Maurice P. Janse van Rensburg’s “Not like the Movie” is an essay constructed to convey her experience as a nurse and the effects it has brought upon her life. Beginning in 1993 when Melisa was a student nurse just embarking on her journey, she tells us about her experience in school and also about the events that happened on July 25,1993 that would stay with her for the rest of her life. When a massacre happens at the church in her city, the student nurses were some of the first to arrive to help, the events of that day have stayed with her for the rest of her life. As a result, she went on to study psychology as a way to try to “understand” the minds of people. Furthermore, she tells us about her journey moving abroad and finally,
