Rubio
Andrea
Mr.Negley
Per 3B
Narrative Essay
3-19-12
Narrative Essay
Horseshoe Canyon is a very beautiful place. It is located in Canyon lands Maze Utah. It is
formerly known as Barrier Canyon, It is known for its collection of pictographs and petroglyphs.
The horseshoe canyon was added to the park in 1971 to protect and preserve the rock found
along much of its length. Human presence in the horseshoe Canyon has been around as far
back as 7000-9000 B.C. the first people were the Paleo - Indians who hunted for large animals.
It is believed that the place was abandoned by people in 1300 A.D.
The Horseshoe Canyon is formed by part of the Endomontion Group and is up to
230mm of thickness. It is Late Campanian to early Masstrichian in age. It is composed of
mudstone, sandstone, and carbonaceous shale’s. The variety of environments such as :
floodplains, estuarine channels , and coal swamps which have created a diversity of fossil
material.
Horseshoe Canyon was formed with mudstone and sandstones. Throughout the years it
formed with much difficulty because of mudstone and stone holding a strong power of force,
relates to the person I am now due to my brothers mudslides in life but yet he always held
himself strong and positive. The past few years my family and I went through a lot the biggest
impact hit on me. My older brother Ubaldo made a lot of mistakes growing up mistakes that
affected him in many ways, mistakes that I learned from. When he was 16 yrs. of age he was
already a dad, his senior year he got kicked out of my house, and finally when he was 18 he
joined the Marines.
I was very young around 14 yrs. Of age when all these problems were going on, I
remember my house being a total chaos mom, dad, brother arguing all the time. Silence
awkwardness when my brother and my dad were around it was like they hated each other
which I know my brother did. I would always see how stressed out my brother was being in high
school and at the same time trying to support his baby, I was always scared when he’d go out at
night and come back home till 4 or 5 in morning drunk and again hear all the arguments under
my sheets with fear.
Ubaldo and I became very close when he had all this going on until today he always tells
me “ you were the only person in that house who understood me and always believed in me
the only one who knows who I am, who doesn’t judge me.” Every time he tells me that I go
back to that day I will never forget. His senior year captain of the wrestling team he hadn’t lost
a match since wrestling season started wrestling was his dream his life he was going for state
champ. It was a Tuesday night my mom and I decided to go to his 9th wrestling match to go
support him, my brother had a tattoo on his right leg that my parents never knew about only
me him and his best friend. When he went up to wrestle his opponent my mom eventually saw
it with his wrestling suit on. My mom didn’t say a thing we went home once they were over not
to much after we got home my brother did too, I remember him going into his room and my
mom and dad followed after him my younger brother and I were in the kitchen when we
started hearing arguing my mom crying I go to see what was going on and the moment I walk
into my brothers room I saw him packing his stuff my dad was so angry and so was my brother
they wouldn’t stop yelling at each other. My dad told him to leave our house, in my culture and
family tattoos are a big deal along with him being rebellious my parents got fed up with it .
I was in my room tears running down my cheeks, I was young but not stupid what was
my brother going to do what was going to happen with him now. He knocked on my door
before he was leaving he came in with tears in his eyes too and gave me a big hug and said to
me “you know me Andrea and this is not me, you’re the only one who believes in me , and wath
ill prove everyone wrong I love you sister.” I said back to him “I love you too I’m going to miss
you.” He left my house my mom crying desperately asking him not to go and my dad mad trying
to blame me for not telling me. I remember my dad prohibited me from talking to him he didn’t
step at the house for a while, I went against my dad’s rules me and my brother kept in touch
through myspace.
My brother and my dad didn’t talk to each other for about 2 years my brother managed
to graduate early. One day we heard a knock on the door my mom went to go open it and there
standing were 2 marines and my brother he had decided to in list. A couple months after we
drove down to San Diego he was graduating as a Marine. My mom made my dad go the day of
his graduation was one of the happiest days of my life I felt so proud of him how he did
everything on his own how at one point he was a no one to everyone but that day he grew to
be someone important. We all ran to him and gave him a hug my dad stayed at the bench when
my brother says to us “hold on I have something to do” he walked towards my dad we don’t
know what they said to each other but we saw them hug and once again we were all a family.
My brother said to me that day “ I told you I was going to be someone in life and not a low life,
yet sister you’re the only one who supported me with all this the one who believed in me.”