Thinzar Phone Myint A holiday that went disastrously wrong Beside the ominous forest was the lonely school bus on its road trip on easter day speeding on a high way road. The rain drops were thudding on the metal roof and the bus was filled with snoring of tired students and sometimes the unusual silence. The windscreen wiper seemed like it was having a hard time in doing its job because of the heavy rain. The bus slowly pulled up at the T junction. Looking left and right, the bus driver did not see anything in distance so he pulled out. Suddenly, a truck carrying tree trunks came out of nowhere. The driver seemed helpless and tried to avoid the high-speed truck even though he knew it was evitable. A bright light came inside the bus and pierced our eyes. After the squealing sound between the tires and the road followed by loud horning from the yellow school bus and the enormous truck, a loud bang was heard. The bus fell over like an old man who could not walk anymore. The bus driver turned around to check on the students looking so pale. Fighting the ringing coming from ears, the frightening alarm of ambulance made its way. Some students were crying out loud because of the shock and some were unconscious. The blurry vision of people watching from a distance, the muffled voices and the raindrops create a scene that the writers usually wrote in books. Through the scattered window, the rescue man came in, yelling to stay calm. Trying hard to hear what he said, only one-third was intelligible. One by one the rescue team took the injured people by coming through the scattered windows. Soon the whole world turned into black. Instead of sitting on a tree trunk beside the warm, cozy fire holding the melted marshmallows filling the surrounding with horror stories, setting up tents and swimming in the dark-blue lake and pranking people, the whole scene turned into a cold, bright and alcohol-smelled hospital room. Everything was bizarre. The swift footsteps of doctors and nurses, parents rushing into the room, the beeping from monitor and the whining people. This was not how things were supposed to go. The soft hand landed on my hair fixing my messy hair, it was my mother holding me by saying comforting words. This unfortunate event would be haunting every single one of us marking as the worst holiday ever. Thinzar Phone Myint The first thing travellers should do before travelling is to plan ahead such as booking a room if the arrival time is at night to prevent problems. Whenever the time, it is always needed to observe the surrounding to avoid getting belongings stolen like languages. Before arriving at the destination, make sure to double check the booking of the room and inform the time of arrival. What is more is taking extra copies of passports and important documents. Keeping some money in different pockets can never go wrong too. Pre-booking a taxi or using an official one is a must when arriving late at the new place. Lastly make sure to ask the driver to drop in front the lodgings. Thinzar Phone Myint In paragraph 4, the writer used the simile “a horn blared like an ancient muezzin’ “. He conveys that the horn of the car was as loud as the muezzin saying praying and also long. The phrase “an ancient muezzin’ “further portrays the visual of image of a driver making a horn sound continuously at Nazneen as she tried to cross the road. Furthermore, the writer also used the phrase “a pair of schoolchildren, pale as rice and loud as peacocks”. Rice is white naturally and peacocks have very loud high-pitched scream. The children in London looked very white and pale to Nazneen and it was strange for her since she came from Bangladeshi village. “As loud as peacock” portrays that they were talking really loudly and it annoyed her. Another phrase used here “Brick Lane was deserted” shows that there were no one in the street without those children. “deserted” further portrays that the lane was empty as if no one comes here. In paragraph 6, by writing “a glass fan sucking people in”, the writer wants to show that there was a revolving door and people were using it to enter into the building. By the verb “suck”, it showed the door was not just like a normal one and people disappeared in a second one by one. Secondly, “She wedged a telephone receiver between her ear and shoulder” shows that she did not hold the phone with hand and it was squeezed between her titled head and shoulder. Thirdly, the phrase “crushed the clouds” said that the building was so high that it seemed like it never ended. The verb phrase “crushed” created an image that the tall building tore the clouds apart and went through them. (290 words)
