Henry's Life-Personal Narrative

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Staring out the large window of the airport, he watched the snow blow in gusts around the airplanes outside. He heard Christmas music faint in the background and hummed along to “The Christmas song”, one of his childhood favorites. He used to sing it on Christmas Eve with his mom and his dad while sitting in front of the fireplace in their log cabin in Colorado. Hearing it being played now just added to his feeling of remorse. Sitting in this airport waiting for his flight was the most down time Henry had gotten in a long time, so he closed his eyes and let the Christmas music take his mind to a place free from his troubles. Ever since he left his home in a small town in Colorado to pursue his dreams of journalism in the Big Apple, Henry hasn’t …show more content…
The roads were starting to curve around the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and this is how he knew he was close to home. He had less than an hour to go before he would reach the large log cabin the woods off a back-road. He could feel the altitude increasing as he rounded the curves, going higher and higher into the mountains, with the snow only getting worse. Everything was covered in snow and ice, event the tall pine trees growing from the rocks on the side of the path. Henry’s attention was focused on the familiar scenery and his sense of nostalgia, so that when the elk ran across the road, he reaction time was delayed. He saw its eyes widen in the headlights and he hit the breaks as hard as he could. However, instead of halting, the car spun on the ice, crashing into the rock wall guiding the road. This all happened in a split second, but it felt to Henry as if it had taken hours. He saw the car hit the wall in slow motion and he saw his mother and father telling him it was going to be all right. The elk ran back behind the trees as Henry reached for his cell phone in his pocket. He held his thumb on his dad’s contact and press call before everything went

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