Personal Narrative

Tyler Kiser

2/25/13

Personal Narrative

Reagels 5^th hour

Hide the Glowstick

“Author’s Note:

I wrote this piece to demonstrate my understanding of a Personal Narrative.”

            We flew through the woods, with the moon high in the sky. It was providing us with minimal light to guide us through the path. “C’mon on where is it,” my dad whispered impatiently over the humming of the engine.

“I am totally lost! We have looked all over and haven’t found anything at all!” I shouted back as we soared through the woods on our a.t.v.  Then there out through the trees in the distance I caught a glimpse of the green glow.

“Dad, dad I think I see it over in the back yard!” I said anxiously.

“No way that’s like the most obvious place ever!” he said as he shut off the lights.

“Then why didn’t we look there then?”

“Well I don’t know.”

“Whatever let’s just go!” I whispered over the stalling engine.

            As we started up going again my dad kept the head lights shut off and we went “stealth mode”. We shot through the endless rows of trees until we ran into a problem: the competition. We heard them coming down the path and instantly my dad cut right off the trail and right into a tree. “Don’t make a sound,” my dad whispered as he shut off the engine. GRRRRRRR! You could hear the competitions’ engine rumble as they rode past.

My cousins are really clueless sometimes. I thought when I couldn’t hear their engine anymore.

            Finally we took off down the path passing wildlife, passing trees, and passing brush until we broke out into the open and there it was: the glow stick. All of a sudden out of the blue came our cousins, flying down the driveway and gaining on us. Instantly after we saw them my dad full throttled it and man did we soar.

Soon we were within 50 yards of the objective, but we started tilting on our two wheels. We were going too fast and the ground started to slant, we were on the side of a hill with only two wheels on the ground until… BAM! It flipped! The a.t.v came crashing down on my leg! “Ow!” I screamed.

With my last effort I pushed through the pain and ran for the glowstick. Soon I was within 10 feet, my cousin Jake to my left and my sister Hailey to my right. On my final push I dived for the glowstick and grabbed it right before they could grasp the string of the glowstick. We had did it! We won!