“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Narrative

Robin Chen

English 11

4th October 2017

Mr. Barazzuol

Walter Mitty dangling the cigarettes, standing straight to the firing squad. He smiled, he closed his eyes calmly, waiting for the death.

“Pong!”  With a huge shot, Walter Mitty awakened from the dream. He is covered with cold sweat. He hurriedly took out a cigarette from his pocket and start to smoke to let him becomes calm. He walks to the outside. Because it is winter, there’s lots of snow on the ground. It is slip, So he falls on the ground badly as he was unconscious.

When he wakes up, he found that he is in a jail. What the first he comes up in his mind is to escape the jail. Then he starts to plan the way out. He starts to look around the jail. After a few years, when he totally finish the map of the jail. He made chaos by the lunchtime and escape the jail easily.

He steals a car and drives on the highway. He drives to the gas station to fill some gasoline for the car and also he wants to get some food to eat. When he pays for the food. He sees on the tv, the police post his wanted warrant, but the cashier did not know that. So he luckily skips the eyes from others.

He drives far away from the city. He found an old, small hotel where he thinks is pretty safe there. He put on the mask and hat to let him become unobtrusive. He successfully opens a room. But what he doesn’t understand is, when he opens the room, all the police is waiting for him. He got caught easily and mysterious. No one knows how the police know that he will go to that hotel and lives there. And also, that should be the last day he stays in the jail. He should have been released in the afternoon. But now he needs to stay in the jail for 5 years again.

“Zi~~~.” from electric sounds. Walter Mitty feeling his whole body is numb. He wakes up in the hotel. He was pulled back from death by the doctor.