A Narrative and Descriptive M&M Essay

Fernanda Buenrostro
October 2, 2011
Period 2
Ms. Green M&M Tragic World
It was horrible to see my kind getting eaten. For me, being an M&M myself, it was horrible to watch as the humans ate the many M&Ms that were not given a chance to enjoy their life here at the M&M world factory as I was. But then again no other M&M was ever created as beautiful as me. No other M&M can compare to my precise and exquisite shape. None other is as smooth nor has nicely rounded flattened edges as me, and none other shines as bright as me. It’s the same thing every day of the week, every hour between the hours of 10am through 12am. Hungry crazy chocolate loving, specifically M&M loving people come in to this palace where you can find prodigious tubes plastered to the wall full of M&Ms according to their unique bright color, colors so bright, and fun, and inviting that make you wonder what is underneath the glossy surface of that small flatten sphere shaped candy, a palace where even from opening the door to that place people can smell the sweet unmistakable smell of milk chocolate from outside. A smell that is not strong enough with just couple of these candies, but with a room filled like this, the smell amasses up to a strong enough smell for our senses to detect. Here people come in and treat themselves to these delicate bundles of joys found in the small brown packages.
To help the M&M industry strive and become bigger than it already is, the consumers are asked to do an optional consumer testing. In this testing they are asked what they think about the M&Ms they tried today and how they could make or improve them. I watch from afar, on a high show case as I stand there modeling my beautiful green self to everybody, what the people write about my fellow digested.
The people who take this test are not asked to give any personal information except for age. One young man, quite short and with a full head of red curly hair with some thick frames on his face, who obviously had not been prudent from enjoying the free samples of M&Ms as you could see some traces of chocolate left behind around his mouth, puts his age as 23. The first and only question he answers “Do you love M&Ms, if so please state why?” He answered “Yes!” and explaining why he wrote “Putting one of the wonderful colorful button shaped candies into my mouth I can immediately taste the faint, but noticeably there, sweet taste of the hard sugary outer coat. Soon after I can began to taste the increasing sweetness as the food coloring, of the outer sugar coat, begins to bleed off onto my tongue from the heat contained in my mouth. Not long after that the chocolate goodness which is found beneath the outer coat begins to seep through revealing the milk chocolate that I have loved before the fabulous creation of the M&M but even more after I tasted these small jewels. As I leave the chocolate resting there on my tongue it slowly melts spreading all over my tongue and the top of my mouth. Making it last as long as possible I close my eyes so that I can be at peace, blocking all others out of my life except for the chocolate inside my mouth and I. I had never truly believed that great gifts come in small packages until these intelligent designs were made known to my knowledge. Finally as the chocolate is completely melted I swallow it feeling a bit disappointed that the experience could not last longer. This disappointment only lasts for a moment between the time span of me swallowing the candy and popping another one into my mouth. These candies are perfect the way they are. They taste amazing and the eye catching color adds to the joy that one can enjoy something so small yet, so powerfully bright and so mouth watering tasty. Thank you. That is all I have to say about this.” Finishing that sentence and with a satisfied look on his face as if he had just dropped a ton of weights from his back, from him holding back on his feeling towards these marvelous objects, he walked up to the a red box which had a sign above it which read “leave tests here” in bright yellow words and dropped his test in.
He walked away feeling satisfied from all the chocolate he had eaten and from revealing his feeling about the candies, but he did not know how I felt. He did not even think twice about eating my possible future friends. I felt many emotions towards that man but I finally just came to the conclusion, as I always do after day. He just saved me from possible fame hoggers who may tried to replace me and take the spot light away from me. So I stand there on top of the show case, modeling my beautiful figure to the consumers, listening to the jingling and small clinging of the people taking up various handfuls of M&Ms and dropping them as if they were playing with sand and I just smile to myself. I guess it’s not that bad after all.