Personal Narrative: The Lovely Bones By Ray Singh

Statement of Intent:

My narrator is Ray Singh from The Lovely Bones. In this piece of writing, I am showing that he is in his late 30’s and single and has a flashback of his crush/love in high school. I am trying to pinpoint the moment when Ray and Susie first connected with each other and it changed Ray’s life and how he may have hada different life if this flashback hadn’t have happened.

While sliding my feet into my black leather dress shoes, my fingers grasp the mauve tie sitting on my unmade single bed. The noise from the washing machine bounces off the wooden acoustics, echoing throughout my small apartment. I walk to the bed and sit down on the edge, making a dip on the surface. My eyes dart to the wooden nightstand drawer, I yank on it for a while and it finally comes out. The collection inside the drawer includes multivitamin tablets, some Panadol, two medical directory magazines, a medicine prescription paper pad, a few bandages and several coins. However beneath the layer of my collectables there is a sheet of pitch black felt which separates my collectables from my treasures. I grab each corner of the felt and shift the pile to the

The unpolished floors and graffitied lockers with pictures of the Beatles glued to them indicated to me that no summer cleaning had been done at school, for what seemed like several years. As I walked, a neatly folded piece of paper, which I placed in my pocket earlier this morning, grazed my outer thigh was not letting me forget its purpose. My palms were sweaty and all I could think of was that on the first day of school, I had decided to tell my crush that I liked her. What a stupid decision. I decided to wash my hands and then put my plan into action. My walk across the hallway continued till I reached the guy’s bathrooms. Just as I was about to push the door, it opened and out ran a blonde and petite girl. My crush. Her face was surprised and her hazel eyes were