Narrative Essay On Mango Street Crash

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Alexandra Bate
Draft: 28 February 2018
How near-death brought me closer to living
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in, smelling the salty air, I rested my head on the water board and relaxed as the waves lifted me up and down as they passed under me. I opened my eyes a while later to my friend nudging me; she pointed to the beautiful setting sun. I had landed in The Netherlands a couple of hours before, and as my friend, Annju and I always did, we gravitated towards the beach. As we paddled to shore after hours of surfing, I felt a slight nudge on the bottom of my board; I thought I had hit a rock, so I looked down, raising my legs out the water but didn’t see anything. I started joking around with my friend that there were sharks in …show more content…

We laughed all the way, reaching the beach quickly. As we looked back at the converging sun display while unstrapping our wetsuits - I spotted the sharp, distinctive fin of a shark, I gasped, pointing it out to my friend. She started to hyperventilate and crouched down and putting her head between her knees; she was having an asthma attack. I cursed myself for not remembering her pump, I told her to lift her arms above her head, and I sprinted inhumanly fast back to the house. I found her inhaler while screaming through the house for my parents to help. I ran down and lifted her into my arms, giving her a few pumps. She started to calm down, and I felt her relax in my arms, we both lay there, unresponsive to the stressful calls of my mother who seemed to be on the phone with the coastguard. At that moment I started to think about how so much could have gone wrong from just living life, strangely I wasn’t panicking but instead felt empowered. My friend murmured something I couldn’t hear into my chest, I bent my head down and asked her to repeat what she had said. “I need a beer” we both burst into laughter. I have always believed that if I didn’t live life to the fullest, I was wasting my time, but at this

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