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Syan Maity
Ms. Rabb
English 9: Words that change(d) the world
September 27 201
My Largest Fight With My Friend

I yelled at my friend James, How could you do that you were so unreasonable. He

yelled You were a jerk and how could you side with him. I screamed like a bird shrieking

You brought this on yourself! What you did yesterday was completely unreasonable. I heard a

large scream and he ran out of the woods completely upset. This huge fight started yesterday

during sports because of an awful canoe ride.

We were canoeing in a large red boat with four seats, paddling into a whole new world.

We were surrounded by beautiful green trees, the lush of the grass, and the colors of the leaves

lighting up the trees around us. I heard the birds call to each other and the small talk everyone

was making in the boat. It was a very hot spring day and as time went on the sweat that was

rolling down my back started forming puddles on my seat. I was not paddling since I am not that

good at it and others kids were having an easier time at it than me. As we were paddling down

river the teal blue waves keep pushing us, making it harder and harder to paddle. It got worse

when we ran into heavy rapids where the current kept pressing, hard and persistent, against our Commented [1]: Sensory Detail

boat. I could hear the rushing water of the rapids loudly as it tried to carry us away. We managed

to get out and got far down river but the trouble started when we had to come back upriver.

As we tried to push against the hard waves we all started blaming each other and we Commented [2]: Sensory Detail

started to get very angry. I felt the heat of anger from everyone as the shouting got worse. It was

very noisy with the waves and the shouts coming from my boat. I suggested dragging us through

them, but no, my James who was on the boat too shot me down. He thought I was too weak to

drag the boat upriver. I got mad at him and started yelling at him and everyone else joined in. It
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got worse and James could not take the criticism anymore. He jumped out of the boat and robbed

us of an oar and I heard a loud thump as he hit someone with it and sprinted into the woods. I

yelled James, get back here! but it was no use, he was already gone. We all started moaning

about James and how much rude he was and how bad it was that he took the oar. I almost

screamed, we were in a very bad position with only one oar.

To help us, I got out of the boat and tried to drag us upriver. I felt the cold water smash

against my legs, making me shiver It was like a million cold hands were creeping up them. The

boat was very heavy, making it hard as a thousand a needles kept stabbing my muscles. . I heard

the other kids encourage me forward with their words and I knew I was doing a good thing. As I

dragged the canoe along I didn't see the water as a light blue anymore all I saw was a dark abyss.

After what felt like hours of dragging we finally reached the shore and someone was there to

help us. It was not one of my coaches since they had to leave because we got back really late.

Everyone got annoyed since this would not have happened if James had stayed in the boat and

not taken the oar. I trudged home to my car completely drenched from the waist down a wet and

cold car ride home was not fun.

On my way home I kept shivering on the seat with no towel to warm me up the sound of

my teeth clattering like a woodpecker against a tree. I told my mom the whole story and she

agreed with me that James was being very unfair when he stole the oar and should have stayed

with us. I had less time to do homework and was exhausted causing the process of doing my

homework to become harder. The seats felt hard and my torso ached from sitting on the

uncomfortable canoe bench.

The next day I was hanging out on a worn out bench by a large building during sports.

My sport used the building to hold all our stuff, it was made of wood, and smelled of pine.
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Large trees surround this little area of ours and could hear distinct conversations from the ropes

course of friends talking to each other. I decided to walk over and talk to James about what

happened yesterday. When I talked to him, I told him how frustrated I was when he stole the

oars. He just blamed everyone on the canoe for being rude to him and thinks what he did was

justified. I felt my jaw clamp and another kid who was on the canoe came over and talked to him

too. He agreed with me that what James did was bad. A sound gurgles in Jamess mouth and he

screams at us and runs away yelling about how I betrayed him. I smile and the dark storm clouds

in my head disappear to reveal a beautiful sun.

I was sitting in the car hanging out on my way home when I got an email. It was from

James and it was full of words slurs and language that were so awful and a shiver went up my

spine. . I then called up my Dean of Students and explained to him what happened and he told

me he would deal with itx. A little while later I am sitting doing my homework when I got an

email from James apologizing for what he said. But I didnt think I could forgive him since the

words he said were to awful and hurt me too bad. I may have made a poor decision but that gave

him no right to send that email. I have had to deal with a lot of insult from him and this was the

last straw. The next day, I came into class and talked to James about a project we were working

on. We started talking and I felt a smile emerge onto my face as things started to repair between

us. But I still have not forgiven him for that day and not forgotten that email.