"The Pedestrian” Before You Read: Life in 2053

Prompt A: Pretend it is 2053. Describe a day in your life. Write a narrative paragraph, with a beginning, middle, and end.

                The year 2053, it’s a distance way of life from 2011. I can remember how the skies were blue, and the white puffy clouds. Now when I look up all I can see is glass, behind the thick glass is the black skies of pollution. We can’t breathe the air out there anymore; the scientist thought it would be better if we were contained.  As I walk the street where there are no cars, I can image the sounds of the engine roaring as it would pass by on the street. I can tell that I am going to be late for school; I can see my teacher yelling at me “Why weren’t you here on time?” I can tell she is going to do this she does it every day.  Classes are faster we only take one class a day, one thing taught a day. We all pull out our computers and watch as the computer writes down the notes as the teacher tells us them. The soft feeling of a text book, the sound of the pages turning, oh how I wish I could have those things.  Its time to go home, my house is just like the others, plain but is huge on the inside. I walk through the door and head straight to my room. I fall into the daily sleep waiting for the next day to come, while I dream of the old years.