Vanity Fair and City III (47)
(Summer, 2010)The lightning and the thunders last night declared the coming of summer.
Whenever a loud thunder blasted over my head---Since I live on the 15th floor, the top floor, the thunder seemed to blast over my head---I woke up and then fell asleep. So all night long, while it kept lighting and thundering, I kept waking up and falling asleep again and again.
Finally the loudest thunder exploded like a bomb, I woke up thoroughly and felt so excited. I always feel excited when the storms come, when it is lightning and thundering as long as I am safe inside the room.
The storm in summer is what I am waiting for in the long long hot summer. When the storm is coming, the sky is covered by black heavy clouds. It is so low that I feel I can almost touch the sky. The violent wind blows. The leaves fall and swirl in the wind. The big raindrops fall down like stones or rocks. Then the lightning is just like a sharp sword, cutting the sky into pieces and the thunder is just like the roar of an angry lion… All the scenes are wild and mad; I like all of this so much.
But last night, when I stood in front of the window and looked out, I just saw the lightning illuminate the whole night in a flash, and all the buildings were sleeping no matter how the raindrops hit them… The night was quiet but not tranquil.
In the morning, it cleared up again. The sky was blue. When we came to the office, we all talked about the thunder at night.
PP said she was so scared of the thunder that she hugged her cat all night long.
Ivy said she hadn’t slept all night because she was very afraid of the thunder.
JJ said the thunder last night was too loud and she felt her heart nearly jumped out.
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Then I felt so strange. I don’t understand why they were so afraid since they were inside their rooms. If they were outside and it kept lightning and thundering, then I could understand why they were scared. If I was outside and it kept lightning and thundering, I would feel scared too for fear that I would get hit by the lightning. But since we were inside the room, then why should I feel scared when the thunder blasted outside?
I like storm in the summer. It is wild and unruly. I like lightning and thunder too, but the precondition is, I must stay in a safe room. Then it can keep lightning and thundering outside, I don’t fear, and I feel excited when the lightning cut the sky into pieces, the thunders blow up over like bombs, and the storm tramples on the whole world!
Comments (4)
You have a way of describing things that makes them come to live in my head....and I love storms too, so even better!
Good blog!
Yea I have heard of such kinds of God but they are not Thor and Zeus. In Chinese mythology there are such kinds of Gods too. I fear lightning too because it will hit people or even kill people. Since I am in a place where lightning is very usual and very severe in the summer, it is not rare to hear that people get hit by it. Very terrible.
Ha ha I like the feeling of safety in a room while outside lightning and thunder have started a war. And I don’t jump. Ha ha I will look out to see the great scenery of nature!
Thank you Drea111.
You like storms so I am happy that I can describe another storm that happened in the far east to you and make it come to live in your head…
I agree with Drea that you really made the storms come alive in the readers mind. There is something very symbolic with the way you write. I have noticed a touch of it in your other blogs as well. You might want to sharpen this technique because you take to it naturally. Check out symbolism in writing or symbolism in literature.
Actually I don’t have much knowledge about figure of speech or language techniques or writing skills. I just write how I feel, what I see, what I can think out at will, quite free and casual.
I will go to find what symbolism in literature is later. Thank you so much.