Monologue To Kill A Mockingbird

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It was dawn and the last day of my holiday. The sun, almost a semicircle and a strange dark shade of orange, peeped over the top of a tall monstrous mountain, like an anxious child at a window. The shadow it cast gradually slid itself over the rooftops of the little white houses situated in the town of Turtle Bay. The dingy shadow eventually moved further out to sea as the afternoon approached. I was at the Hotel pool. It was shaped almost like an ear, very obscure. Filled to the brim with crystal clear water, it reflected a laser shade of blue by the tiles that rested on the bottom. The sound of children playing in the water sent an adrenaline rush of happiness through my mind. Emotions of eternal bliss overwhelmed and all I could do was smile. At that very moment I was sent twenty five years into my past. Vague images of my beautiful childhood appeared before me. The year was 1984. Growing up on a mid-west farm in the "Heartland" of Maycomb…show more content…
We do not have the time to appreciate our surroundings as I did when I was a child. When I was a child I held onto every moment, thinking that everyday was a new adventure. It seems as though I now live in a concrete jungle or I could even describe it as being a human zoo. I realize that life when I was young was so pure, so innocent and I would trade anything to re-live my colourful, bright and happy childhood. I wish that if I closed my eyes for a moment I would go back to those days, those days when everything around me seemed so simple, when I could wake up and simply do nothing, when I really did think that China could be found by digging a massive hole in my backyard and when I was able to view life in all its beauty. Unfortunately, things are not always what they seem to be, and we can’t run away from the pressures we

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