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ORIENTATION My Cat
I remember the day when I first got meong , my 5 years old cat . I wanted to name her
name her becauseshe was so cute . My older brother, Johan , convinced me to name her
Meow instead; so we could call her meow for short . I was so fond of Meow . Every time I
could hug her the whole night even though I was freezing .
I always remember so many fun times with meow . Like when we would run and jump
off the end of our jetty , and meow would chase after us . When I was scared or mad , I
would just hug meow and everything wouldn’t be so bad .
One night, right before I went to bed , my mom let her out . While I went to sleep ,
my mom went to call Meow back in . But she didn’t come in , so I thought she might have
gone inside my neighbor’s house. As my mom and dad went outside to look for Meow , I
became really worried . They couldn’t find her . Every ten minutes they would go out to look
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back the following day.
The next day was the worst . My mom woke us early and told me and my brother ,
Johan, that Meow died last night . I was so sad and did not want to do anything that day.
When I was going to school, I could not stop crying. At school my firend made me cards and
tried to make me stop crying, but I couldn’t. My teacher would always look at me and ask
why I was crying. Even my friend was crying with me.
When I got home I went to my room crying really loudly. I wanted to scream. I came
downstairs and hugged my mom. She said we could get another cat. I wanted Meow. She
never found one that looked like meow or at the same age or even the same kind.
REORIENTATION That night I slept with my mom and we prayed for meow. I kept thinking she was a
ghost at the end of the bed, so I stayed closed to my mom. The next day I figured out that of
Meow was a ghost, she would not scare me or haunt me . She would be waiting for me to
play with her.
I still think about Meow every day and wish she could come back.