The Escape Plan

1282 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Prevention and control of child abuse

I live in a beautiful paradise full of excitement, love, and friends. Everyone around me was all kind and caring. They have given me tools to grow by nurturing me unstoppably. The time has come where I finally start seeking for independence. I mean, I’m only 10-years-old but it is always natural for people like me to want to feel some sort of independence. I do not recall having my parents around me. I grew up in a place full of children like me where they try to sell us, kids, like candies. We are like the candy shop in town but for adult couples. It’s called “a-dop-pla…c..e?” I don’t know what this place is called but all I know is it sounds complicated. People around this place although kind and caring are usually strict about children getting out of the premises. They watch us like dragons trying to protect the princess at the highest tower. Except, in this case, there is no princess, no dragons, they cannot even spit out those cool flaming fires that dragons do! But I guess you could say that they look like dragons and smell like dragons. I finally couldn’t take it anymore so I begged this lady that work at our candy shop to let me play outside the premises. Not so surprisingly, she said no. But I knew that there will be a big event tomorrow. It’s kind of like auctioning some candies, except we are kids who want to be sheltered. So I thoroughly made an effective escape plan.

Excitement floated through my body that night. A hint of anticipation of the coming day could not be abolished. I arduously forced my evil, party-pooper thoughts from exuding in and overcoming my body and mind. I still wonder if I slept at all that night. But I did. I slept soundly and comfortably but unconsciously fighting of those evil urges that are t...

... middle of paper ...

...gs started shaking, and my heart starts thumping.

I immediately remembered that that little girl was me.

Everything makes sense now. The candy shop isn’t in fact a candy shop. It’s a paradise- like place, but not quite. It is where people stay between heaven and hell as they seek for answers before they go to their respective places.

I rigidly stood there in awe, realizing, I was the lost soul, lingering in a place where memories and dreams were shattered.

This was the missing piece out of the puzzle that I have been searching for all along. I finally feel complete. I started crying out of relief and enjoyment. “I can finally rest”, I blissfully uttered.

A beam of light shine upon me, as I hear my name echoing over and over again and slowly get lifted up above and be at the place where I truly belong filled with love, happiness and tranquility called, heaven.

Show More
Related

  • Robert Hunter

    2396 Words  | 5 Pages

    The Candyman obviously has a score to settle with someone in Memphis. The "trouble" notion is both more and less apparent in "Loser":

    Read More

  • Escape In Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut

    1128 Words  | 3 Pages

    The concept of escape plays a large role in literature. Many authors explore mental, physical, or figurative escape throughout their work. In Slaughterhouse 5, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut explores mental and physical escape through his main character Billy Pilgrim. Billy is a soldier at war, but only because he feels entitled to do so. His father was a soldier and grandfather was too, so Billy feels obligated to uphold the tradition, even though he has no desire to be at war. Throughout the novel, Vonnegut describes Billy as weak, constantly trying to escape his circumstances, both literally and figuratively. In contrast, Achak Deng, the main character of Dave Eggers’ novel, What is the What, is a Lost Boy from Sudan, who walked for days, weeks and months, hoping to flee from South Sudan to Ethiopia. Throughout his journey, Achak utilizes outside sources to escape the hard circumstances he faces on his journey to Ethiopia. Slaughterhouse 5 and What is the What are similar in

    Read More

  • Revolutionary Road and Escape

    543 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Richard Yates’ fictional novel Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler, Frank Wheeler, and John Givings all seek escape from their current captive situations in suburbia; however, while April and Frank employ concrete methods of escape, the mentally unstable John Givings has no solid plan of escape. Foremost, April Wheeler is a young woman seeking freedom and independence, which also means getting away from her suburban life. She first attempts her escape when she joins the Laurel Players in a production of The Petrified Forest. Full of hope, April dreams of something different and exciting. Her dreams are crushed when the play crashes and burns. Her face that she puts on for the stage, bright, glowing, and covered with makeup, represents her dreams for something bigger. Once she fails, she retreats back to suburbia, removing her makeup and revealing a “graceless, suffering creature” with a “constricted” appearance and a “false” smile (Yates 13). The more April tries to conceal her disappointment, the more her anger builds. Soon, she snaps, declaring that her husband Frank has pu...

    Read More

  • Appalachian Musicians And Singers And The Songs They Write

    616 Words  | 2 Pages

    felt at the alter or the hope of seeing a lost family member in the here after

    Read More

  • The Diary Entries of Victor Frankenstein and The Monster

    575 Words  | 2 Pages

    As I awoke I saw the face of a man staring down at me with a look of pure horror and

    Read More

  • Frankenstein: Less Human Than His Creation

    963 Words  | 2 Pages

    that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification”

    Read More

  • The Pros And Cons Of Casual Sex

    1463 Words  | 3 Pages

    The patient was more beautiful than she realized. If only she could see it for herself. The color from her dainty face had drained to a sickened green tint and her eyes widened in fear. The walls of the clinic exam room were ordained in calming colors, but offered the young woman no comfort. She continued to blink rapidly as if she would awaken from the nightmare; her long eyelashes could not fan the health worker’s words away. She thought it was harmless, just a night of fun. It made her feel valuable and attractive. Yet being desired now left her alone, crumpling to the floor screaming between sobs and desperately reaching to the empty air around her. She couldn’t grasp any security. Not only did that harmless night of fun result in her becoming

    Read More

  • The Essence of Mortality: Nelson Mandela

    1142 Words  | 3 Pages

    Think back to last night, right before the depths of sleep rolled across your mind, and try to reimagine the feeling you felt as your soul embraced the safety of sleep. Even now, sitting...

    Read More

  • Analysis Of The Great Escape

    1071 Words  | 3 Pages

    In The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, author Angus Deaton describes the ongoing struggle of progress and inequality. The essence of the book is to explain that progress itself is the reason for inequality. I found that as I read more I began to relate to some of the principles that were stated. I didn’t understand a lot of the economics behind the book but, this book allowed me to take the economic doctrines and convert them into things that I notice happening everywhere around me. While reading this book, I found three major takeaways; people are generally doing better than before, someone always gets left behind, and equal opportunity is different than equal circumstances.

    Read More

  • A Kidnapping Plan

    834 Words  | 2 Pages

    Before retiring, Barton took his four officers to Hog Island, just off the mainland. And there, in full view of the British ships, they could see the British tent encampments on Aquidneck and the men-of-war anchored in the bay. Only then did Barton assemble his little party around him and, in a short but spirited address, disclosed to them his plan to kidnap General Prescott from his own quarters, his reasons for attempting it and the part each was to perform. To avoid the British, they would row to Warwick Neck, on the mainland opposite the northern tip of Prudence Island. From there they would head through the narrow passage between Prudence and a small island called Patience, and then hug the Prudence shore to its southern end. Finally, they would cut across the channel to Aquidneck Island, landing at the cove below the Overing house.

    Read More

  • The REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

    1630 Words  | 4 Pages

    the best of moods when we went to sleep. To view the rest of this essay you must be a screwschool member click here to become

    Read More

  • The Fire of Life and Strength of Iron

    914 Words  | 2 Pages

    It was just after 10 o’clock when his fury burst through the wall that separated my bedroom from the living room. I recognized the voice, but not the anger. I knew full well that it was my father yelling, but I had never heard him so upset. Being the oldest and most responsible of my siblings, I had to go see what was going on. I tiptoed down the hallway and gingerly stepped out of the shadows and into the dim lighting of the living room. My eyes shot to my mom who was sitting in her recliner, red-faced, and wiping away tears with a handful of Kleenex. Then I saw my father, quickly sitting back in his chair as if everything were perfectly normal. “Having trouble sleeping?” he a...

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative Essay - The Ski Trip

    336 Words  | 1 Pages

    stood upon, was frightening.  The only was to go was down.  I took a deep

    Read More

  • Personal Narrative: Term Paper Procrastination

    1336 Words  | 3 Pages

    3:30 A.M. finds me in front of a glowing computer screen yet again. I’m waiting for some inspiration. My friends, kind enough to let me use their dorm room and their Macintosh, are asleep in their beds just feet away in the half-darkness, reaping the rewards of their wisdom: they haven’t waited until the night before like I have. I take swigs of Mountain Dew from a plastic mug; it’s the sweet nectar of the Gods of Last-Minute Paper Writing. No, make that bittersweet nectar -- the taste of sugary green goodness reminds me, with every swallow, that I’ve sentenced myself to another unnecessary all-nighter.

    Read More

  • Creative Writing: One's First Day In High School

    1393 Words  | 3 Pages

    I scarcely snoozed at all, the day before; incidentally, I felt insecure regarding the fact of what the unfamiliar tomorrow may bring and that was rather unnerving. After awakening from a practically restless slumber, I had a hefty breakfast expecting that by the conclusion of the day, all I wanted to do is go back home and sleep. Finally, after it was over, my dad gladly drove me to school; there, stood the place where I would spend my next four years of my life.

    Read More

More about The Escape Plan

Open Document