”I was sweating something fierce, although I was cold. I could feel my palms getting clammy and the perspiration running down my back. I get like that when I’m real scared.”
This is how
Ponyboy, the lead character in S E
Hinton’s classic coming-of-age novel, The
Outsiders, describes how he felt during an extremely frightening moment.
Can you write about a frightening moment?
It can be
something you once experienced. Or it can be something someone you know
experienced.
Describe
what happened and how it felt. See if you can include the five senses (sight,
sound, smell, touch and taste) to give the reader a complete picture of the
experience.
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I’m not a very big fan of darkness, at least not if I am alone. When I can’t see, I easily start to imagine things that in fact aren’t there. When that happens I can get very frightened, because I start to focus on the smallest sound that I hear, and then I always start to believe in the worst possibilities.
ReplyDeleteI have a country place in the middle of the forest in Dalsland, and one late summer evening, I had to go out alone in the darkness to throw away some garbage in the compost. You have to walk on a tiny pathway through the forest just to get there, and I had to do it in darkness, alone. Like the worst nightmare to me.
But I succeeded to reach the compost, and I was on my way back. I was walking on the soft ground of moss, and all I could focus on was the thin beam of light from my torch. It was very dark, and all you could hear was the wind hissing among the treetops. Like fizzy voices whispering to one another. I had the strange feeling like someone was watching me, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if a huge bear, or a wolf should have appeared in front of me. Suddenly I heard a rattling in the grass behind me. My heart started pounding, and I quickly turned around to see where the noise came from. With my shaking hand I pointed my torch against the spot where I believed the sound came from. I couldn’t see anything there, so in panic, I started running. I could feel my heartbeat, and I ran all the way back to our house, without looking backwards. I felt a great releaf when I stepped inside the door to our cotton. I had manage to get back, although the way back was a bit pathetic. Probably it was just a bird or something that made the noise, but as I said, when I’m alone in the dark I can start to imagine things that in fact aren’t there.
I'm afraid of many things, but I'm almost sure that the scariest things for me are spiders. I don't like insects, but when it comes to spiders, I can't even look at them. I don't really know why, maybe because I've seen many scary movies about spiders. I've also seen nature programs about spiders and people that have dangerous spiders like the black widow in their homes. Once, me and Elli decided to go home to her to study. First we wen't into the kitchen to make some food, then she told me to go upstairs to her room. I waited near her balcony while she was on the toilet. I looked around and was just about to sit on the red sofa in front of me, when she stopped me. She said that she wanted to fold her blanket. I started to put out books from my bag when she suddenly screamed. I turned to her and she said that there was a huge black spider just three centimetres from her hand. I ran out from the room while she called her dad to come up and kill it. Elli's dog Malva came and started to bark. Unfortunately her dad was to busy to come so we had to deal with the spider on our own. After ten minutes, when we calmed down, we decided to kill it, but first we had to find it. While she went down to take a glass and a journal I was alone in the room looking for the spider. I found it under the couch and then it suddenly started to climb at the side of the couch. I screamed and ran to Elli. My whole body was shaking and I think that I've never shuddered so much in my entire life. After a small fight about who was going to catch the spider, we decided that Elli will catch it and I'll kill it. After ten minutes of saying no I can't do it, Elli finally put the glass over the spider so that it couldn't escape. Then she took the journal under and we carried the spider to the balcony. We took some photos of it and the I took a drumstick and started to hit the spider. After four hits the spider exploded and yellowish brown liquid came out. It looked so disgusting, and since then, I HATE spiders. That spider took an hour from our lives!
ReplyDeleteI lay on the grass, pushing myself back and forth. I was screaming and crying. And the only thing that went through my mind was that I hoped this wasn’t something serious!
ReplyDeleteThis match felt so good! The sun was shining, the sky was blue and we were in Denmark, and everything worked perfectly. I was at my best and I couldn’t be happier. Everything I did on the field was so good, and I felt it in my whole body.
Then the ball came, the girl from the other team was going to take it, but I couldn’t let her. I ran and I putted my legs down and suddenly my whole body except my leg on the left turned, while the girl from the other team kicked my left leg. And in that second, I could hear how my knee got broken!
I was on the grass crying and screaming, it was hurting so much. I could see my trainer running to see if I was okay. I remembered that the only thing I was thinking about was that I wished this would be over and that I would be back on the field in a second. Because I was so afraid that this would take forever until I would come back. Because soccer is my life!
My trainer checked my leg, and I saw almost every girl on my team standing around me to see what was going on. And every time my trainer touched my leg, I screamed. And I felt in every little bone in my body, that I was so afraid. Because I knew that this wouldn’t be over in week or two, no, I knew that this would take months before I could go back on the field! And that’s what made me even more scared.
It’s really hard to describe the feelings I had because I was in shock. But imagine something that you really love, and then it suddenly goes away. It feels like everything you have gets out of your hands and you can’t even do something about it because it’s too late. It’s like you have a big hole in your body, that you can’t fill. And that’s what’s makes it so scary, because you can’t do anything about it.
And that’s one of the biggest fears in my life. Just like my leg, I couldn’t do anything, because I couldn’t turn back the time and I didn’t know what was going too happened in the future. And that’s what’s makes everything so much scarier, because you don’t know anything!
This story hasn’t really ended yet, because this happened in the summer, and I can’t still play any matches, but I’m on my way and I’m getting better! But still this was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me, because I didn’t know what was going on when I lay on the grass pushing myself back and forth…!
The scariest experience so far in my life happened for six months ago. It was when I first read that one of my former teammate Filip had committed suicide.
ReplyDeleteI was just about to sleep when I decided to check Facebook one last time. In the beginning it was nothing unusual about the posts on my news feed. The same old persons and pages who had post something unimportant. Then I suddenly saw that Filips best friend had written a heartbreaking text on his timeline. It was about how much he missed him and that he never would forget him. It felt like the time had stopped and I couldn’t remove my sight from the post. My fingers started to itch and wasn’t able to move in fear. An instant heat warmed up my body and it was hard to breathe properly. Not Filip, he was always happy and everybody liked him. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t want to believe it. I had never been so scared in my entire life, and the feeling to not know was unbearable. In the belief of that it was only a sick joke or just a misunderstanding I scrolled down. But I was wrong. Each and every post was about this subject and it was written by hysterical friends, whose words indicated on a great sadness. When I saw Filips brother’s comment it felt like my heart sank and I burst in to tears.
The last time I was really scared where when I was on my way home and there was a man a few meters after me. It was a dark evening and I was on my way home from the stable. And it was a man who walk closely after me. And I do not like when people I don't know walks close to me. So I started to walk a little bit faster. But then I noticed that the man who walked after me started to walk faster to. I thought he wanted to walk past me so I slowed down instead so he could pass me. But then he slowed down to the speed I was walking in. I started to feel a bit scared. So I looked around but there was none else there. It was just me and a man fully dressed in black. My phone had no battery so I couldn't call anyone either. I thought that I probably just imagine that the man where following me but he was still walking close to me. I walked a little bit faster again and the man started to walk faster. Now was there not far away from my home so I started to shout after my cat that is named Sigge. And when I started to "scream" the man behind me turned and went back the way we came from. I thought it was odd. And the next day stood it in the newspaper that a girl had been raped hundred meters away from my house. And I couldn´t stop thinking about the man who was dressed entirely in black...
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 9 years old my friend and I were going to ski off pist (this was our first time alone).
ReplyDeleteWhen we came up on the mountain there was this thick mist that made us unable to see at least on meter in front of us.
On our way down I felt like something weren’t right. I saw a little tree last time we got down, but not this time. I told my friend, but she was so sure we were on the right track. So I trusted her.
But when we had been going down for a few minutes we met an edge, and luckily we were able to see it before we got down. Because it was really steep. We looked down and there was this big forest. We didn't know where we where.
We could hear wolves howl somewhere in the forest, and we didn't imagine that.
So we took off our skis and began to walk up, away from the forest, the way we came from. And we had no phones so we couldn’t call someone, the only thing we could do was screaming for help and keep on walking. Because if we would go down we would probably hit a tree, be eaten by the wolves or both.
We understood pretty early that no one would hear our screams of help and it was worthless to keep on doing that. So we didn't waste more energy to scream for help.
We got really tired walking for a long time. Time to time we had too cool down our foreheads in the snow. My nose felt like it was frozen, so I couldn't smell a thing.
It was so quiet but sometimes I could hear a wolf sneak behind me.
And one time I could hear it hiss before it attacked me, so I screamed and ran to my friend who was a bit in front of me. But I was so clumsy and it was hard to run in the deep snow so I fell. Fell to my death, but when I turned around nothing and no one was there, only the thick mysterious mist. I shivered, breathed really loud, my heart beat like never before and my adrenaline was sky high. I was so thirsty. But could only feel the taste of blood in my mouth.
My friend sat beside me and we made sure there was nothing was hunting after us.
When we kept on walking I still had the feeling something was after us. The wolf hiss behind me, making me fall two more times.
Eventually we found back after a really long walk.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my whole life. It may also have been because I was so young.
I'm going to tell you about something that scared me alot. For about four years ago, me and my family rented a cottage at Dalarna. We stayed there for a week during the summer break. One night, when I was going to sleep, I pulled up the curtains to look outside one last time before I went to sleep. Then I saw something terrible, two bats were hanging upside down on the curtains. At first I got scared because I didn't know what is was, but then I saw that it was two bats and I got really scared. When I pulled up my curtains, the two bats got chocked and scared as me so they flew away and flew around in the house. We had to open the door to make sure that they left the house so we could sleep peacefully and not be afraid of two bats flying around in our house.
ReplyDeleteOnce when I was in jämtland I experienced something very scary. It were in the middle of the night and I was in a room with five other people. The clock were about 3am and my friend suddenly said that ghosts are most active at 3am. Then one of my friends who were sleeping suddenly shook in here sleep and said "no it's not like that". It were like the ghosts talked thru her. Then she woke up and saw all scared faces and wondered what has happened. Everybody were chocked and couldn't talk properly. I remembered I was really scared and sweaty. When we got to our Seneses we explained what had just happened. Then when we thought all was over the handle on the door went down. The door was locked but the handle was down for almost one minute. Everyone were really quiet for several minutes and the atmosphere was scary. I walked over to the window to see something else than the room and saw a fox running over the yard, I was at the 2nd floor. Then the fox suddenly stopped and turned its head towards the window and then I freaked out, when the others saw it they got as scared as me. The fox just stood there staring at the window.We just wanted to survive the night. During that night I really believed in ghost and whatever may be.
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