Blessing behind Tragedy
There
was a black family in Scotland years ago. They were Clark family with nine
children. They had a dream to go to America. The family worked and saved. They
were making plan to travel with their children to America. It had taken several
years but finally they had saved enough money. They had gotten passport. They
had booked seats for the whole family member in a new liner to America.
The
entire family was full of anticipation and excitement with their new life in
America. However few days before their departure, the youngest son was bitten
by a dog. The doctor sewed up the boy. Because of the possibility of getting
rabies, there were being quarantined for long days. They were in quarantine
when the departure time came. The family dreams were dashed. They could not
make the trip to America as they had planned.
The
father was full of disappointed and anger. He stomped the dock to watch the
ship leaved without him and his family. He shed tears of disappointment. He
cursed both his son and God for the misfortune.
Five
days latter, the tragic news spread throughout Scotland. The ship, the mighty
Titanic, had shank. It took hundreds of passenger and crew with it. Titanic
which had been called the unsinkable ship had sunk. It was unbelievable but it
was.
The
Clark family should have been on that ship, but because of the bitten son by a
dog, they were left behind. When the father heard the news, he hugged the son
and thanked him for saving the family. He thanked God for saving their lives.
It was a blessing behind a tragedy.
The Analysis of
“Blessing behind Tragedy”
Abstract : Everybody has a dream. You have
and so do I. When the dream will come true, there is something wrong last
minute before it. What will we feel?
What
will we do?
Orientation : The Clark family lived in
Scotland. They had dream to travel to
America. They prepared well for their plan
Crisis : few days before they
went to America, his youngest son was bitten by a dog. It made they were being
quarantined. They had to forget their plan.
Reaction : the family was full of
disappointment and anger. The father was angry with his son and God. The family
failed to travel to America and the father could not accept it.
Coda : the father thank to his
son when he hear the ship sank. He thank to God because of saving the family
from sinking. He thought leaving behind the ship was not a tragedy but a
blessing.
Language features analysis
The use of exclamation, rhetorical question
and intensifiers:
Full of
The
use of material process : were
making, could not make the trip, stomped, cursed, bitten, hugged, etc