Personal Narrative Essay: The Dream World

The Dream World It was a normal, Saturday morning in 3582 for Carly Bright, a seventeen-year-old girl. She was helping her mother and father in the kitchen when she accidently fell and dropped all of her breakfast on the floor. She started bawling her eyes out while her parents were chuckling and helping her up. Her long, brown hair was covered in her breakfast as well. All her life, for seventeen years, she had always found it sad and a waste to live. Everyone around her had never cried or been sad other than her; no one could relate to her and she felt extremely lonely. Her parents always tried to help her by buying her anything she wanted to make her happy, but it never worked, for they did not understand. The only person who understood …show more content…
They hopped onto the bright yellow bus and had a great conversation about dogs as Carly stared out the window, looking at every happy person along the city street. She lived in New York so she was able to look at thousands of happy couples and families every day to school. They finally arrived at their high school and together they walked through the huge front doors and down the hall lined with blue lockers and then up the stairs. Their class was located on the second floor to the right so they had to travel a long way to arrive at the class because the school was so large. When they entered the classroom, they realized they were late as the whole class stared at them awkwardly. They went up to their teacher, Ms. Sheridan, to try to negotiate their way out of being late but she denied them and sent them down to principal Anderson’s office to receive a late pass. Together, the two strolled down the hall again to meet the …show more content…
My name is Carly and I don’t know what happened to my friend Tom. He was with me when we came here.” Cried Carly. “I’m sorry, but he is probably dead. The government does not like people who break their rules.” replied Sophie.
The two talked to each other for the rest of the night. Sophie never had a friend or neighbor next to her in the cell so she was happy for the company. The two decided that they would try to escape because they did not want to end up dead. They figured out that the guards leave to trade shifts at nine o’clock at night so during that time no one watches them for about ten minutes. They then would pick the lock with a bobby pin they had kept in their hair.
“Okay, are you ready? They are about to leave to change guards. Get the bobby pin out. We have one chance,” said