An Example of A Narrative Essay (free topic)

This is an example of a narrative essay that was written in the present tense. The awkward idea of the story is originally from me when I was in the ESOL class, so please don't copy this and claim this is yours because I know your narrative essay will be a lot better than this :D GoodLuck!

Swasti Niramaya

Professor Scurry

ESOL 0360

June 26, 2017

The Shocking

I am sitting in my family room at 8:00 P.M. watching television with my little brother when all at once, the lights in the whole house goes out. They blink on and then off again. Finally, they come back on and when they do, I notice the room is filled with a purple haze. The haze slowly clears, and suddenly a three-foot-tall man with a very large green head appears in the center of the room. He is dressed in strange gray clothes, and his large black eyes are the size of coconuts. He has a strange looking metallic gadget in his hand. He takes one step toward me and raises the metallic object.

Without any scared, I look at his eyes. He knows that I am not scared of him, so he brings that metallic object down. Bravely, but a little bit of shaking, I ask him “Who are you? Why do you come to my house?” He says nothing. Then he looks around and I think he wants to go somewhere else. I ask my little brother to come with me and follow him. Yet, when I see my little brother, he is not sitting beside me. I am panic. “Where is he going?” I am trapped in two situations. I have to decide whether I look for my brother or follow that strange man.

A few minutes later, while I am going to stand up from the couch, the light turns off suddenly. I lose that man and I don’t know where my little brother is. I try to turn the light on, but it doesn’t work. The television also off, I can not turn the electricity in all of the rooms in my house. I am looking for a flashlight that usually we put in the kitchen, but I can not find it either. Suddenly, I see somebody is running beside the dinner table. I am thinking that he is the strange man. Without any voice, I run to the place that he goes to. I see a light inside a restroom, and I am thinking, “Where does the light come from?” Then I bet that it must be the light from a flashlight. Quickly, I grab a broom near the restroom, and take a tablecloth in a cabinet beside it, with holding a plan that I will hit that man and cover him with the tablecloth.

About five minutes, I have been waiting for him to come out, but he doesn’t. I try to open the door, with full of hope that it doesn’t lock from inside so I can run my mission. Then I open the door and I hit that strange man’s head inside that restroom three times with the closed eyes. In the other side, I feel something not right. I can not hit him. Then I open my eyes, and I see my little brother is brushing his teeth. I just realize that we have an emergency light in the restroom. I am so mad and confused too. I ask him “Hey did you see that big man around? Did you see him? Do you know where he is?” My little brother just says “Who? I didn’t see anybody here, I have been here for about ten minutes. “Okay, then you come with me now to grab that man, finish your brushing quickly!” He says “Okay okay let’s go”.

The lights are still off, so I grab the emergency light from the restroom. I ask my little brother to bring it. Then we go to my parent’s room. Assume that he is a thief who is looking for jewelry in the main room in this house. When we open the door and come in there, we see nothing is wrong. Everything is neat. Suddenly I hear a plate or glass is cracking from the kitchen. Then we both run there. Surprisingly, I see that big man in the kitchen holding a cake with several amounts of candles. All the lights turn on by themselves, then I am surprised that there are a lot of people there, I see my mom, my cousins, and my friends there. They are singing happy birthday to me. Then I assume that the big man is my father. I run to him and say “Daaaadddy I know it was you!”

I am very surprised on that day. Then I feel very happy and realize that a lot of people love me and still remember my birthday. I will never forget that day. The shocking birthday party.