Descriptive Essay: Silver Bracelet

Silver Bracelet It was selfish, I knew in that moment that it was selfish. My sister, Bridgette, was only six years old, and I took advantage of being only a year older than her. She was oblivious to what I was doing in that moment. We were at the arcade in the middle of July in Stone Harbor, NJ. We decided that after we were done playing all the games, that we would combine our tickets and split it. After about an hour, we came together to add up our tickets. To my surprise, she had won more tickets than me, but we stuck to the agreement and had 78 tickets. I bought the tickets to the counter, and I glanced down at the prizes. I was scanning the counter back and forth looking for something that was worth 39 tickets. My sister was also doing the same thing. Finally, I walked to the far left corner and I saw what I wanted. In that specific moment I could have swore I had never wanted anything more. There was one problem. The silver bracelet was 50 tickets. I looked down at the prize counter and saw my sister looking at the candy choices. The man at the counter walked my way, and I quickly gave him the 50 tickets. I put the bracelet in my pocket, and then I walked over to
He was very fascinated by them because of how different they were from everyone else. What made them seem so different was that they did not own a TV. That was definitely something out of the ordinary for the main character who grew up with one. He sneaks around their house, and watches through their windows in amazement as to what was going on during dinner because they were all together talking. This almost seems foreign to the narrator. David begins to mention how different they were at school. Other kids noticed what made the Tomkey’s different from everyone else. The Tomkey’s were not only a source of entertainment for the main character, but everyone at school treated them