This is a writing prompt i did in class one morning, Mr Greene gave us the first sentence and told us to finish the story. I thought it was a fun piece but i have a question. When the last man on earth is dying and looking at himself why do you think he is vanishing ?
The last man
on earth sat alone and considered his future. Suddenly there was a knock at the
door. When the man realized that there was a knock on the door he was
surprised, he didn’t know what to believe. Was he beginning to go crazy or was
there a real person knocking at the door? He heard the knock again. The last
man on earth just stared at the door, scared of what could be on the other
side.
Knock Knock Knock, the knocking was
getting louder. “Stop knocking” the man began to shout, “I’m not going to
answer, I’m not going to answer because I don’t think I could handle what’s on
the other side of this door”
The knocking becomes even louder and
more consistent. The man begins to through things around and punches the walls;
the knocking is making him go mad. He cannot take the knocking any longer. The
man races to the door and swings it open.
To the man’s surprise it is himself
at the door, but how could it be he at the door when he is the one who has
answered the door. He stares into his own eyes or what appear to be his own
eyes. They look tired and lonely, as they should, being the last man on earth.
He begins to feel a horrible pain in
his chest, almost as if it were about to explode. His blood was hot growing hotter,
to a boiling point. He drops to the ground and looks up at himself, as he looks
down at himself. As he feels the life leaving his body he sees himself
vanishing.
Something that had just confused me was that why he saw himself; perhaps a mirror? Or was it just an illusion because he was going that insane for being the last man on Earth?
ReplyDeleteAnd to your question, I believe he may be seeing himself vanishing because he is dying, so his vision is getting blurred. That may also proove that it was an illusion.
Most certainly quite interesting. I enjoyed reading this.
My guess is that the man is disappearing because he saw himself(who was time traveling) and that warped the space-time continuim.Or perhaps the man is indeed going crazy and thought he saw himself, when in reality he just died of starvation and insanity. It would be interesting to see why he disappeared; perhaps you could continue on with this or edit what you have. It was very sad, but interesting. Why did the other version of the man knock in the first place? Did he perhaps want to end his own suffering? Maybe you could put a little bit of dialogue between the two to explain it. It could make the story even more intriguing than it already is, and explain a lot about it. If more was explained about the cirumstances, it could improve the quality of this story immensely, although it is rather good to begin with.
ReplyDelete