Class 12 English Unit 13: Writing: Descriptive Essay

 

Writing: Descriptive Essay

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a.      Write a description of an event that you have recently witnessed.

I recently witnessed a case of an accident on the road while I was returning to Jhapa from Kathmandu. It was the winter season. The road was not seen clearly. It means there was very poor visibility. The driver often stopped the bus and cleaned the windscreen so that he could see the road well while driving. When we arrived at Pathlaiya, it was almost midnight. The climate was chilly cold even inside the vehicle. Our bus stopped sometimes there and headed towards the destination. But we were stopped in the middle of the forest. There was a long queue of vehicles. Most of the passengers were talking about the accident. So, I got off the bus and went to the place where the accident had taken place.  When I reached the spot, I saw the driver was crying for help because his half body was crushed and his legs seemed to be parted from his body. The bus collided with another night bus in the narrow space of the bridge. Both buses were broken into small pieces. Most of the passengers were injured, lying unconscious on the ground and crying for the ambulance and police. Ten passengers were dead on the spot. We tried to call for the ambulance and police but there was no tower for mobile service. We even tried to put the driver out from the cabin but we could not do that. At that moment, I felt very upset and cursed myself because I could not help the person who was at the door of death. It was almost 3 am after the accident when a police van arrived and the injured passengers were sent for treatment. We departed from there while I saw they were trying to put the driver out from his cabin. I just prayed for the sake of his life.

b.     Human life does not pass as one expects. You might have also gone through different but memorable incidents. Write an essay on 'An Unforgettable Event in my Life' in about 500 words.

An Unforgettable Event in my Life

I used to have a bad habit of doing things thoughtlessly and absent-mindedly, without considering the consequences, and I would never have thought that habit would lead me to an unforgettable event in my life. It was about 6-7 years ago, on an evening, my brother and my mom were downstairs, watching the news on TV, while my dad was upstairs watching a sport. I was feeling quite bored, so I decided to come upstairs to play.

I usually loved to play on the balcony for a few minutes or more in the evening, and came downstairs afterwards. Unfortunately, I forgot to close the balcony, and my dad who was too focused on watching TV, didn’t even notice that the balcony door was wide open at that moment. A while later, when I was downstairs with my mom and brother, I heard loud screaming coming from upstairs, and my dad was continuously calling my mom, telling her to bring him a knife hurriedly. It was very strange for us, and we soon concluded that there was someone who broke into our house.

My brother rushed into the kitchen to get the knife, while my mother burst out of the house holding me, and called for help in a panic. She sent me to a neighbour’s house and came back to my house with some men in my neighbourhood to back me up. I couldn’t have imagined that everything tend to have happened so fast. Chills were running through my spine, tons of cold sweat pouring out of my body, my hopelessness increased as I looked at my house, which was full of screaming at that moment but the environment was suddenly changed into a scary. I was intensely praying, hoping that nothing would happen to my family because I wanted nothing harm could our to harm my family. Suddenly, there was a loud crashing noise, and the screaming was getting louder at my house. I was trembling, and my legs felt so heavy that I could barely walk; I almost collapsed at that moment. Fortunately, the police arrived after fifteen minutes and captured the man. We felt great relief and thought we were saved from such great misfortune. Luckily, he was drunk and had no bad intentions, but he had a sense of violent outbursts. It was lucky no one in my family was injured badly. I exhaled with relief, and hurriedly rushed to my family, I almost cried my eyes out at that moment. There were lots of neighbours peering from their house. Some of them were in the street and helping the policemen. The police got difficulty identifying the person but they put him in their vehicle and took him to custody.

A sense of relief ran through my mind, I was thankful that nothing bad was to happen to my family. Up until now, whenever I recalled that incident, I would always feel terrified. If the man who broke into my house was armed or had any bad intentions, something worse could have happened to my family. Therefore, I always told myself, to break all my bad habits, and to consider all my actions.

 

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