Analysis Of The Letter K S - 1104 Words

Character comes from overcoming adversity in life; without hardship there can be no growth. The way a conflict is handled defines who each person is and what matters to her the most. My personal disaster came on August 29, 2005 in the form of a hurricane-- deadly, surging, ravenous. Hurricane season kicked off the same for me as it had every year, a lot of false alarms and small storms struck in my area just outside of New Orleans. Occasionally there would be a storm threatening enough for my family to evacuate north into the heart of Cajun country, where my sister and I would spend a good portion of our three hour drive crudely laughing at jokes of which buildings would still be standing on our way back. We were young and had†¦show more content†¦The Louisiana sun sizzled upon the black bed like the devil’s smile. Two of the labs had been used to the heat. Not Fudge. Halfway through our trip, nearing Opelousas in the heavy traffic, Fudge was no longer visible in the truck. Fear began to set in. We pulled over and saw her limp, unresponsive body sprawled out in agony, collapsed from heat stroke. We sped off in the opposite direction to find her water and a vet. Time seemed to speed by and drag on as the search for any open veterinarian office nearby who could take Fudge for the day continued until our prayers were answered twenty miles away in the town of Eunice. There was nothing left for us to do but continue on to my great-grandfather’s packed house in Mamou, Louisiana. No one slept that night. Between the news reports urging New Orleans to evacuate and the thought of Fudge fighting through the night for every breath she took in a sterile void, I was lost in my own black hole. The golden morning broke along with the news we had been dreading. Although New Orleans had been spared by Katrina, my hometown, Slidell, took the full wrath of the eye of the storm. We were going to be in Mamou for a while, as was most of my extended family, and the space was too small for all of us. We decided to look for a different place to stay for the next two months