Trust And Responsibility: A Narrative Analysis

Jessica Smith
English 101-045
September 4, 2015
Narrative essay #1

Trust and Responsibility My cell phone plays a huge role in my life. I think many others would say the same as well. Before I received my first phone, my oldest sister, Andrea, had a phone. Sarah, my other sister, and I wanted our own phones as well. My mom would let us play games on her phone sometimes but it just was not the same as having our own phones.One day when Sarah and I had come home from school, we walked into the kitchen saw something we didn’t expect. When we realized what was sitting there on the kitchen counter, our jaws dropped. There, sitting on the counter, were two beautiful brand new phones in white shiny boxes. One box had Sarah’s name on
Most of my friends’ parents would say: “ She is way to young for that. My kid is not getting a phone till she enters high school.” My parents, on the other hand, disregarded what other parents had said and thought it was a great idea and an opportunity for me to earn their trust. It was also an opportunity for me to show responsibility. My Mom and Dad told me a few dozen times, “This is a huge responsibility to have your own cell phone.” Having a phone at such a young age along with more rules that I was not sure I was ready for, such as: keep your phone on loud at all times, make sure you answer our calls the first time we call, be sure to charge your phone every night, and lastly do not lose it. My parents also told me: “If you break any of the rules that we gave you, me or your dad will take your cell phone away for a week.” My worse fear was that I would forget to charge my phone or even worse, miss a call from my parents. Thankfully, I never broke any of the rules that they gave me so I never had my phone taken away. Since I did not break the rules. I was soon rewarded with another new phone. It was the Motorola Razor. It was pink, of course, my favorite color and it was the “it” phone at the time. I loved that phone! Two years went by and soon I was rewarded with a brand new white iPhone for Christmas. With it came a phone case and a note. The note said: “Always keep this case on the phone at all times. If I see it with out a case I will take it from you and you will not get it back for 2 months.” I thought that was an easy rule to follow since the case was so cute I would not want to take it off but, all my friends soon got iPhone 4s and they did not have cases on them and I liked the way their phones looked, so I took my case off. When I got home from school, however, I would immediately put the case back