Christmas Surprise Essay

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Christmas Surprise I will never forget this past Christmas season in 2011, it was so unexpected. My girlfriend had broken up with me just a couple days before the winter break, specifically on the 18 of December. I was devastated, we hadn’t been together for very long but we had such chemistry together and I got butterflies every time I saw her smile. I was down for the first couple days of the break, but then my grandparents came into town and that really cheered me up. Who needs a girlfriend when you’re surrounded by people who already love and care for you unconditionally? From that point on I was feeling high and mighty, and when Christmas morning strolled around I was feeling on top of the world. I came to my last present of my pile, it was a big box and I had no idea what it could be. I was thinking to myself, “could life be any better?” I ripped the delicate wrapping paper from the box and revealed a bath kit with shampoo, body wash, deodorant, etc. The scent of these items was amazing, but then I looked at what the name of the fragrance was. That’s where my extravagant Christmas morning went downhill; the name for the scent was my ex-girlfriend’s name. This hit me hard for some reason, I just had a flashback of all the great times we had together. I had to get up and leave; I didn’t want my family to see me like that on Christmas. Narrative structure is a major element in Richard Rodriguez’s story, he lured you into thinking that there was going to be a happy ending with smiles and laughter, but you soon realize the negative vibe building up and then the final depressing blow to the story. This story is extremely ironic, the mother is showered in gifts and her wish has come true that her children will become successful and treat her well, “Every Christmas now the floor around her is carpeted with red and green wrapping paper. And her feet are wreathed

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