In-class writing

On a weekday morning after Christmas, the author and her friends were playing in the heavy snow and having fun by throwing the iceball. They hit their target with the soft snowball since they thought the adult would not really care about it. Nevertheless, the driver came down from the car and chased them for ten blocks until caught them. She was exhausted but happy because she felt herfelf was needed by the man who chased them.

As for me, the most significant thing the author learnt from this experience is that people have to assume the mistakes they made earlier rather than escape and being caught. In the story, the author and her friend tried to escape from the angry man. However, they man was so insistent that they finally got caught. It may indicated her that running away was not useful at all, if she did something wrongly, she had to prepare to assume the consequence.

"We could have run through...to prolong the chase and cap the glory...or stake us to anthills.(4) In this quote, the author imagined what would happen if they still trying to escape and noticed that the further they ran, the harder the punishment might be.