Thethingstheycarried
Makaela DelaGarza
Pd.3
4/14/13
The Things They Carried Essay
Dance Team Colonel, Rebecca Espinoza, carries a binder everyday. In it is an attendance sheet, calendar of all the upcoming events, and a practice schedule so that she will know what is occurring every day. It is meant to keep her on track. The binder almost becomes a bible to her. Holding it close as if someone would jump her spontaneously and take her precious binder away from her grasp. She is a senior, and is going to be graduating soon. All of her focus is either on dance, or on school. She carried the weight of the whole team, the pressure of being colonel, the burden of always trying to be perfect for everyone else, and the worry of misguiding her peers and screwing up everything for everyone else that cares about the team. The things they carried were dance shoes, extra practice clothes, knee pads, water, and extra bobby pins that always seem to be needed, and always seemed to disappear no matter how hard you tried to keep track of them. They carried clothes for the school day because dance practice was in the morning. In their dance bags were hair straighteners, perfume, deodorant, brushes, and all the makeup you could imagine, the many necessities of being a teenage girl. The dance bags weighed about 5 pounds, depending on what you were bringing that day, the shoes and clothes carrying most of the weight. They carried backpacks with all of their schoolwork in order to succeed in their day. Cell phones were always present, no one could go a day without their cellular devices, and car keys and sunglasses were an absolute must. The Dance team director, Mrs.Trevino, carried a large tote bag, a “Conzuela” bag that everyone seemed to be so obsessed with. In it was a laptop, a sea of colorful folders, and her all important car keys. She acted as if the folders carried the cure for cancer, as if they were the most important paperwork ever to be printed on this Earth. She carried every emotion, so
Pd.3
4/14/13
The Things They Carried Essay
Dance Team Colonel, Rebecca Espinoza, carries a binder everyday. In it is an attendance sheet, calendar of all the upcoming events, and a practice schedule so that she will know what is occurring every day. It is meant to keep her on track. The binder almost becomes a bible to her. Holding it close as if someone would jump her spontaneously and take her precious binder away from her grasp. She is a senior, and is going to be graduating soon. All of her focus is either on dance, or on school. She carried the weight of the whole team, the pressure of being colonel, the burden of always trying to be perfect for everyone else, and the worry of misguiding her peers and screwing up everything for everyone else that cares about the team. The things they carried were dance shoes, extra practice clothes, knee pads, water, and extra bobby pins that always seem to be needed, and always seemed to disappear no matter how hard you tried to keep track of them. They carried clothes for the school day because dance practice was in the morning. In their dance bags were hair straighteners, perfume, deodorant, brushes, and all the makeup you could imagine, the many necessities of being a teenage girl. The dance bags weighed about 5 pounds, depending on what you were bringing that day, the shoes and clothes carrying most of the weight. They carried backpacks with all of their schoolwork in order to succeed in their day. Cell phones were always present, no one could go a day without their cellular devices, and car keys and sunglasses were an absolute must. The Dance team director, Mrs.Trevino, carried a large tote bag, a “Conzuela” bag that everyone seemed to be so obsessed with. In it was a laptop, a sea of colorful folders, and her all important car keys. She acted as if the folders carried the cure for cancer, as if they were the most important paperwork ever to be printed on this Earth. She carried every emotion, so