Introduction to the Writing Process
Course Number: 1600.2
Instructor: George Austin
The following is one example of the many types of work that the
students of this class have completed:
When I was ten I had the worse day of my life, in fact, it was the day that I was the angriest I had ever been. My mother and father told me that they were getting divorced. I had no idea how angry I was but I just bottled it up inside myself. I was so angry because it was dad's fault. The man I had trusted for all my life betrayed me. That was the one day I became very angry with my dad when he told me of how he was going to divorce my mom.
I remembered why he was going to divorce my mom he said that he liked another person at his work. "This person," I asked, "you like better than mom and I?" Dad was sort of stumped on that one. He told me that things were not working out between my mom and him. I knew that was a bunch of lies (choice of words was different).
The reason I was angry was that for one he lied to me and kept lying. Also he had been my idol. I was so disappointed with him that many times he did not feel like a father to me. I hated him so much from that day on and I just kept bottling up my anger until I told him I did not want to live with him anymore.
From that day forward I have not talked to him or regretted not talking to him. I will always know him as my dad but not treat him like my dad. If he calls and wants to see me it is his right but it doesn't mean I'm going to like it.
I know that I hated my dad all along but I just found out that its better to say it sooner that it does later. I have moved on and will take that experience with me. I like my arrangements now anyway. The next time I get angry I will let my anger out instead of bottling it up.
Written by:
Alan Lateer
