What i got from this weeks prompt for the blog is that we should make a connection with the read chapters in the book to myself. When i read the chapters in the book one thing popped up in my head and it's something I will never forget and will always be hard for me to get out of my head. One night i was at a party, i know tsk tsk. Everything was going normal and out of no where my friend was being pushed outside and i ran after to make sure nothing bad was happening. Sure enough he was about to get in a fight so i tried to break it up. Little did I know it wasn't only just them fighting but a lot more of the boys were fighting in the side yard inside a truck. I saw my friend and my friends step dad being pushed out of this kids truck and the kid was highly intoxicated. As the step dad and my friend were running back towards the house the kid ran over the step dad's leg and while all my other friends were helping him towards the house, the kid in the car kept ramming into cars and tried running into the house. If this one car wasn't in front of me in front of the garage I would've been ran over.
Witnessing all of this really kind of connects because all Ishmel saw was chaos and madness and inhuman actions, which is exactly what I saw. The sad thing is about Ishmel is that it was anger and hate that drove all those cruel actions instead of angry drunk testosterone. I just remember watching my friends step dad limp over by me, me watching him in shock, not being able to move and almost getting ran over by this huge truck. So i just picture how much worse it had to be for Ishmel seeing not just a broken leg or crashed cars, but his friends family and people he saw every day die brutally. I don't think I could handle that.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Thanks for sharing your story. It is my experience too, that making personal connections like yours -- even if they are not directly parallel experiences to others' stories -- help us realize that we have more in common than we might see at first.
ReplyDelete