Danitra Roberts
English 121
Diagnostic essay
August 21, 2013
Title
My friend and I had been riding a train for hours! We were exhausted, extremely bored of this train ride, and we had no clue where it was stopping. The reason we even got in this train is because we wanted a new beginning. We lived in a horrible town with a lot of horrible people. The only way we knew for things to get better was to leave. So we hopped on a train and headed out.
As the morning came we decided that we no longer wanted to go where this train was taking us, but instead to walk to the nicest place we find on our way. So we gathered our bags and we went to the back of the train. We looked out of the train and tried to see where would be the easiest place to jump out at. There it was a small spot of grass and it was up shortly so we knew we had to jump quickly. So we threw our bags out, and we grasped each other’s hands and we jumped. We landed a little rough, but it was not as bad as I had thought. Our adventure of finding a new home had now begun. We walked along the train tracks for quite some time, and we knew we’d have to find a place to stop soon. In the distance we could see that a storm was moving in. We walked a whole lot quicker after seeing the clouds starting to move in. We were following a two way train track and we could see that they were soon about to meet up. What amazed me the most is how beautiful this sight actually was. The trees and grass were all so green. The sky was just as beautiful. It was full of clouds and we could see that there was a storm that was moving in. the light behind the clouds really made the sky a beautiful scene. We stopped and stared for a short while, and then we were right back onto our journey. Finally as we kept walking we came up to a nice town. We had finally walked into the storm. The clouds were right above us. We were still undecided if we would stay and begin our new lives here or if we would just stop here to wait for the...