narrative essay
Melvin Jones
ENG 111/003
Gibbs
8 Sept. 2014
M.E.L (My Experience in Life) In my life, I had many past and present experiences that I have encountered. Some of my past experiences are very memorable like my present ones, because of the impact they had on my life and the significance in a particular one. One experience I remember the most comes from my childhood when I was a freshman in high school in which I stood up to a classroom bully that was mistreating me. As a freshman in high school, I was placed in band class for my first semester and decided to try out for the school band. This was my first time learning an instrument and marching in a band, so I choose to play cymbals because they seem easier to learn and play. Upon choosing my instrument, I was the only freshman who chose the cymbal section of the band. In this section we had a senior student that was in charge who was very mean and intimidating like a military drill instructor. While trying out for the cymbal section of the band, the section leader would make me do numerous humiliating things beyond his authority. He would make me open doors for him, lots of exercises with the cymbals or whatever he could think of to embarrass me in front of the other band members during tryouts. One day after school, we were participating in tryouts when there were a lot of mistakes made while playing along with band but not by me. As tryouts concluded for the day, the section leader expresses in thunderous tone “My section to assembly room now!” Everyone ran to the assembly room in the quickest way possible in fear. After the whole section was finally in the assembly room standing nervously and sweating, the section leader calls me to the front. As I was standing facing him at about an arm distance, he grabs my shirt and yanks it pulling me with inches of his face and yells “You’re an idiot” in front of everyone. Suddenly I became angry and fiery, so with both of my hands I push him away from me
ENG 111/003
Gibbs
8 Sept. 2014
M.E.L (My Experience in Life) In my life, I had many past and present experiences that I have encountered. Some of my past experiences are very memorable like my present ones, because of the impact they had on my life and the significance in a particular one. One experience I remember the most comes from my childhood when I was a freshman in high school in which I stood up to a classroom bully that was mistreating me. As a freshman in high school, I was placed in band class for my first semester and decided to try out for the school band. This was my first time learning an instrument and marching in a band, so I choose to play cymbals because they seem easier to learn and play. Upon choosing my instrument, I was the only freshman who chose the cymbal section of the band. In this section we had a senior student that was in charge who was very mean and intimidating like a military drill instructor. While trying out for the cymbal section of the band, the section leader would make me do numerous humiliating things beyond his authority. He would make me open doors for him, lots of exercises with the cymbals or whatever he could think of to embarrass me in front of the other band members during tryouts. One day after school, we were participating in tryouts when there were a lot of mistakes made while playing along with band but not by me. As tryouts concluded for the day, the section leader expresses in thunderous tone “My section to assembly room now!” Everyone ran to the assembly room in the quickest way possible in fear. After the whole section was finally in the assembly room standing nervously and sweating, the section leader calls me to the front. As I was standing facing him at about an arm distance, he grabs my shirt and yanks it pulling me with inches of his face and yells “You’re an idiot” in front of everyone. Suddenly I became angry and fiery, so with both of my hands I push him away from me