Creative Writing: Little House On The Prairie

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I do not remember the first book I read. Actually, I do not really remember much before I turned six. I do remember reading Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingles Wilder when I was in first grade. Back then, I lived in a neighborhood called Shadowmoss Plantation with my mom, dad, little sister Emme, and our two cats named Stonewall and Lilly. That was the year we discovered that Emme had cancer. While Emme stayed in the hospital with my mom, my dad and I lived on a combination of fast food, anxiety, hope, and prayers. My dad had received his PhD a few years earlier, so our house looked like the historical section of the library. I remember two large wooden bookshelves filled with books. He had books about the Civil War, early America, …show more content…

As a child, I asked my parents so many questions because I wanted to learn everything. I wanted to be super smart, and to protect people from death and disease. I wanted to be smarter than everyone else, because when I studied, I did not think. When I did not think, I held back my anxiety. I questioned my faith, and I found answers because of those questions. The more I questioned ideas, the more I learned from the answers. But the more I thought about those answers, the more anxious I felt. Its not that exciting of a story really. The story of a little girl who faced tragedy, loved to read, and wanted to help sick people. This girl could be anyone really. But her story differed from the rest. She had a little sister that survived. She felt the real impact that a brush with death incites. This little girl, this privileged little girl, wanted to make a difference. However she wanted to do it all by herself, so nobody could say she did not earn it. One day, this little girl will be on stage, getting her degree. She will change lives in ways never done before. Maybe she will even find the cure for cancer. I know this all sounds cliché, but I have a lot of faith in this little girl, because this little girl is

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