Letter of apology of Carol to Mr Briggs - Our Day Out

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Dear Mr Briggs,

I’m writing you this letter to tell you how thankful I am for the ‘lesson’ that you taught me on the cliff last Sunday.

First, I am sorry for putting you in such a dilemmatic situation. I know you must have been really enraged. I know you must have a hard time trying to control your wrath.  I know you must have hated me so much for my silliness. Hence, now, I want to send you a letter of apology with my greatest sincerity.

I wasn’t out to the cliff for no reason. I had been through the hardest time in my life. My brother had had a car accident. Although he was taken to the hospital, the doctors refused to rescue him because we had no money to pay them. I thought, “If only my family had had more money, my poor brother wouldn’t have passed away. Why is life so unfair? Why do we have to be so poor? And what is the sin of being poor anyway?”  Things still wouldn’t be that bad if since then, my mother has not been constantly drunk and my dad has not stopped going to work because of depression. Even worse, quarrels between my parents have happened continuously and we are starving day by day because there is not enough money to support all of us. The night before the trip, I wondered, “Sooner or later, I’ll die of hunger anyway. So why don’t I try to escape this miserable life right now and seek for a beautiful place to enjoy the rest of my life in tranquility?” I kept thinking about that during the trip. When we got to the beach, I found the place. A perfect place for me: the cliff.

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I had the opportunity to separate from the group when Mrs Kay asked me to go and look for Susan. As you know, instead of looking for her, I went straight off to the cliff. I began to watch the waves under the warm sun and enjoyed the gentle breeze. That was the best moment in my life. It was a moment of absolute placidity. It seemed like there was nothing left in the world to worry about. I said to myself, “Carol, let’s stay here forever. Never come back to that living hell again.” But not long after that, ...

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