My Aunt - Middle School - Writing a Person

Amy Aunt, with her short and slender frame, slightly leaning on her shoulders, 60-something years old. A healthy head, but still without one trace of age. The face is unbroken, but the额 is not quite as white as usual; only slight creases around the corners, but no faint folds. She is very hardworking, always doing the best she can, and especially loves her family. No matter how hard I work, she makes it easier for me to concentrate.

Every morning, she leaves early for work. After work, she goes to the工地. She has not read much during her youth; yet, she writes some fine letters. Every day at eight in the morning, they are up and out. They have not stopped doing this even on Sundays.

One night, while they were sleeping together, an unexpected disaster occurred. A sudden snap of thunder threw off a stream, which rained down like a river, splitting into separate branches, each falling as quickly as lightning. With the sound of a great explosion, they were swept into a dark hole. The river split into tiny streams, and then larger ones. Each branch spread wide and led to a fork, which led further out and even into a cave, where they fell into a deep abyss.

One night, a very unusual event occurred. A fish bite was caught in the mouth of their tooth. The community's doctors were all on their feet; there was no time for any medical examination. They went home that evening, to an old house nearby. They left a note with them outside, which had been delivered by their neighbor after school. It read: "One night, one man died, but not quite at the end of his life." The community's doctors were gone; they did not have time to contact anyone. The only person who knew what was happening was their Aunt, who was on her way home.

While she was out, the news spread through the village. My Aunt was a man with good intentions. At the age of 18 when she was born, he decided to follow his passion for writing and began to write daily. It didn't start until I was almost twenty years old, when I first started helping my Aunt. She became so interested in learning that at 30, he bought a small blackboard and began to paint on it. He always brought the tools with him. When he returned home from work, they were already painting more than one room. His knowledge of writing extended far beyond his school days, but he was equally focused on getting this done.

As the night wore on, my Aunt's activities became less orderly. She had reached a point where she could no longer walk alone and would go into the house to borrow her tools from neighbors who were on their way home. The neighbor had also gone out to school, but he was not at home anymore. His wife was coming back, but she didn't know anything about Aunt's work. She tried to ask but couldn't find her own phone. The woman in the street began helping Aunt and took her for a walk around the village. Aunt followed; they were walking side by side on a small path leading to the end of their village. The path was not easy, as it moved through dense forest; at some point, the ground broke loose and started falling down, making paths smaller each time. Aunt stayed with them, looking out for her family. She tried to keep up with her husband, but they were both busy. He was trying very hard to write, but he could never seem far ahead of his wife. They thought of a way to keep their work going: while the rain came down in one direction, the wind carried Aunt and her husband from the other side. The house remained standing even as the storm raged around it; the ground continued to fall each time a cloud passed overhead.

That night, there was an unusual event that turned out to be very important. A fish bite caught in their mouth was caught by an old woman who had lived on the shore for years. The woman saw no signs of life but could tell they were about to die. Aunt and her husband went home, but it wasn't until she was back that Aunt realized something was wrong with them. She stood there in the night, looking around her as she waited for her husband. He was alone on a dark shore watching over him, and he didn't move at all. When he did not move, Aunt turned around in disbelief. For a moment, she thought the woman would see him and that she could make contact with her husband if it were possible to do so. But it wasn't; they had both moved far away from their shore. She turned around again, but this time, there was no chance for her husband to move.

Aunt turned around in surprise when the woman did move, and she followed him into a small cave where he was alone again. The woman looked back at Aunt and she tried to explain what had happened to them. Aunt said that they were very close friends who had just died with no family left. The woman stood there for a moment, staring at Aunt and his husband, then ran to her house behind her. She did not know where her husband was; he didn't have a car, so she waited outside on the shore. After a while, she came back, saw Aunt and his husband with their young children, thought it must be over, but when they turned around, there were no children in sight. Aunt's heart started to race as her husband and she looked at each other for a second before they both ran back into the cave. The woman went outside again, saw Aunt and her husband in that small cave where they had been for much of their lives, and began heading home with them.

As my Aunt was walking home from the cave, it started to get quiet. She stopped at a small tree near the shore. A bird landed on its branch and began chirping. The sound of a distant rustling fell onto the ground, and a small voice emerged from behind it. It called out: "Aunt, your husband is missing. He was in that cave." Aunt turned around and saw her husband sitting there, looking defeated. But she didn't know what to do next. They had not heard anything about Aunt's husband since he left the cave two days before. The woman went outside again, saw his house without any lights on, went into it, and then found her husband and his children walking towards the shore. Aunt was touched by their reaction. Her husband moved slowly, but with no sound of his words. He just moved across the sandboard of the shore as if nothing had happened. When Aunt saw this, she thought that her husband was dead, too. She made sure to go back and find him, and when she did, they all knew it was over. Aunt began to think about how he would move on with them—how their family could continue moving forward in the face of loss. She remembered that day when Aunt's husband died; he had always said that he had never known death. He didn't talk about his loss until years later, but the idea stuck in him.

Aunt turned around again and saw her house. The woman went outside, looked at her, and began heading back home. She couldn't go further because Aunt was already with them on a car that had been driven for some time. Aunt drove back into the cave where they were, but it wasn't safe enough. A small stream of water broke through a crack in the wall as Aunt sat there, and a woman ran from the cave through the hole and emerged into the water. The woman was young; she ran to her husband who had just died. The woman said: "It's your turn." Aunt smiled and gave him one more look at their family. They were all on the shore, in this small cave that had been theirs since childhood. Aunt began to think about what they would do next—what family life would it be like again when her husband died. She thought of her own life as she worked at the blackboard. One night, when she was sitting down, a flash of lightning hit the sky and the wall. The roof fell down from its place, and the rain poured into the house below. The river ran for miles, but Aunt didn't know where it would end. She thought of her husband again—she couldn't forget him. She started to walk around the sandboard near the shore, thinking about his words each time. It was very hard at the moment to imagine how he had been and how his life had changed when he died. Aunt stood up as if to shake it off, but she didn't feel strong enough to do anything. She just moved forward slowly. She looked around and saw their children walking towards the shore—small children, maybe. They were young and curious, each looking for something to say or ask about them. Aunt gave them a big open sky, and they all ran after it together. The flash of lightning hit again, but Aunt's heart was already racing with uncertainty. She knew that if her husband had been gone from this life long, there would be no more children either. But she didn't care for the future; she just wanted to make sure that my aunt would have something in her life to live on. She went back to work, continued writing, and kept walking slowly along the sandboard as if nothing happened. One night, when the rain finally stopped, Aunt turned around and saw the woman coming out of the cave again. The woman was young; she looked back at Aunt and moved with a calm determination. "I know I'm not living long enough to see your husband's face," she said, but her voice didn't dry up anymore. She thought about their family—about the people who could live on this earth in the way they did before their parents died. She started to think about how much Aunt and her husband had loved each other for so many years. They had shared so many moments together, both physically and emotionally. "I miss him," she said again, but that wasn't enough. "He's gone." She walked off into the sandboard, determined to find out more about what their life would be like after his husband died. Aunt stood there, still thinking, until one of the children began to run toward her. The flash of lightning hit once more, and Aunt looked down at her children again. One of them was running towards her, but it was too late. She knew that my aunt's life wouldn't be complete then. She walked back into the cave, saw her husband, and moved slowly through the cracks that had let his words escape. It wasn't easy to see him now, Aunt thought, but she couldn't let go of his memory anymore. "I don't want this," she said, but her heart was already heavy with worry. She had made so many mistakes and lost so much time before my aunt's husband died. But she knew that if she didn't do anything, he would never be back. She started to talk to her husband again, thinking about their family—about the people who could make this life work for them when they were gone. Aunt walked through the sandboard with a calm determination and continued writing until it was no longer necessary. Then she turned around and saw his children running towards the shore. The flash of lightning hit once more, but Aunt knew that it wasn't time to talk anymore. She just stood there, her mind racing, thinking about how much Aunt and her husband had loved each other for so many years. "I miss him," she said again, but that didn't change anything. It was too late now. They would never make their children go their way again. Aunt turned around once more and saw his children running towards the shore, then he was gone. She walked back into the cave, saw her husband on the rocks next to them, and started walking slowly again. "I don't want this," she thought, but it didn't matter anymore.