Example Of Narrative Essay For College

Here I kneel, with my aching and bruised knees on the painful, damp sand of the Mozambique beach. My mind is utterly confused and terrified; and my body remains at the complete mercy of my nameless persecutors. My last memory was going to sleep, while on a family holiday. My mind begins to speculate which reaction would be ideal for this problematic situation in which I find myself stuck with a thousand overwhelming emotions of confusion, anxiety, anger, encouragement, joy and peace.
Distress and uneasiness flood my horror-filled mind causing me to ponder in fear for my future. My mind gallops through a dense forest of anxiety with fear holding the reins. My conscience breaks out into chaos and panic as I feel my hollow bones fill with nervousness. As I become restless and impatient, my thoughts scatter and fragmentally regroup, contemplating the desires of the terrorists and in an instant, a spark of rationality flashes through my mind, and endless thoughts of past terrors traumatize my muscles and leave me solely paralyzed. In a hasty moment, my stomach twists and turns as my
‘[F]orgiv[e] one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you’, flies though my thoughts, a burst of faith and encouragement shoots through my body like a volcanic eruption as the rage, anger and unforgiveness in my heart subsides, until I am only left shining with hope in a better outcome than death in this situation. As I do so I hear a quiet voice of comfort which calls from the back of my mind. It fills me with immense relief as if I am a malnourished child given a satisfying meal to fill my starved stomach. My fear subsides instantaneously and is replaced by the joy and peace of knowing that my family is by my