Silence By Larry Watson Analysis

An unforgettable day Everyone has some special memories, like Larry Watson, in his essay “Silence,” reveals “all of us grieve, at some time in our lives, for our lost childhood, but in the sameness of all the days of past only the usual day, the day different from all the other days, is likely to stand out in memory. And for me, the day my father stole me is the day I remember best” (P111). It makes me recall the day I had unforgettable experiences that produced a profound impression on me. The special day I went through told me that love always exists. As well, after reading Larry Watson’s article “Silence,” I found the true love between the father and the son, even though the father left the blank impression on the son’s childhood because
he left his son. Even though the son remained silence when he faced his father, but in his inner he loves him. For example, Larry Watson, in his essay “Silence,” reveals the true feeling in the last paragraph: “I miss my father.”(P111). I am deeply moved by the love between them. The day that is special to me makes me experience love from the family members, love from the friends, love from the teachers, and love from the entire world. It was May 12, 2008. The climate in the summer was hot, and some places in the center of Xi’an were building the subway, but the streets were filled with people who look busy. At the same time, I was attending an English lecture on the 28th floor of building that is located in the center of city.
The students in the classroom were all listening to the teacher attentively. So the classroom is so quiet except the teacher’s voice. Suddenly, I felt my chair was shaking, I thought first the shaking was my classmate who sat behind me kicking my chair , so I turned around and asked him to stop kicking my chair and gave him a hard look angrily, but he looked at me with innocent eyes. I ignored him, turned back, and tried to listen to the lecture, and then my desk was still shaking. In the meantime, other classmates said loudly that their desks were shaking. My teacher asked us to calm down and he went out to see what was happening. At same time, the light dropped down from the ceiling and water machine fell down suddenly. We were very scared by what happened. So we ran out the classroom even though our teacher was not back yet. When we ran out from the classroom, I saw many students were running to safety exits, and our school president told us to run out the building as soon as possible. I did not know what happened, but I felt the building would fall down, maybe because the subway and the construction machine touched the foundation of the building. We ran down the stairs from twenty eight floors, during the time we ran off, I just miss my family very much and I realized how important my family to me. It is not easy for anyone to run down from 28th
floor, during this, the steps shook very badly, we could not stand straight, my best friend still held my hand and kept telling me “keep it up, everything will be fine”. I moved by her words and I found she can be a lifelong friend. We still did not know what happened and why the building was shaking. Then, I heard many people said that was an earthquake, I felt so sacred, but in my head, the first thing that I must do was call my family, but because of the earthquake, there was no signal, I could not dial the call. Many people and my friends tried to dial calls to their family and friends. I was so frighten that I was crying all the next hours until I heard my mother’s voice from the phone. My mother told me that our hometown just shaken few minutes, and they were safety. Much to my relief, they were all right, my mother exhorted me to be carefully again and again, and she would not hang up the phone.