B.A Easy English Notes on Seletion of modern essays
Essay no.4. Take the Plung.
In this essay Gloria Emerson describes her parachuting experience and the motives behind this act of hers.The writer worked in a newspaper office.She was a popular writer and a journalist.She was fond of adventures and wanted to do something extraordinay to startle her colleagues .She says,I wanted to be brave about something.
She joined a parachute club at Orange.After getting necessary training,she underwent this arduous adventure.She had some physical defects but despite these she took the plunge.She had weak eye sight,bad back and uncertain ankles.
Before her jump,she entertained certain fears.She feared that she might be electrocuted on wires .She might be drowned or might hang on a tree as a result of some nasty wind.She overcame all these fears and jumped out of 180 Cessna.She felt the sweet stillness of the air.She also felt the endless sky and earth in different colours.She felt so much joy in this plunge that she wanted to stay there and never to return to the earth.She successfully landed in a sand pit,her target.Everybody congratulated her on her successful parachute jump.She proved to the men that,being a weak woman,she could equal them even in risky adventures like parachute jumping.
In this essay Gloria Emerson describes her parachuting experience and the motives behind this act of hers.The writer worked in a newspaper office.She was a popular writer and a journalist.She was fond of adventures and wanted to do something extraordinay to startle her colleagues .She says,I wanted to be brave about something.
She joined a parachute club at Orange.After getting necessary training,she underwent this arduous adventure.She had some physical defects but despite these she took the plunge.She had weak eye sight,bad back and uncertain ankles.
Before her jump,she entertained certain fears.She feared that she might be electrocuted on wires .She might be drowned or might hang on a tree as a result of some nasty wind.She overcame all these fears and jumped out of 180 Cessna.She felt the sweet stillness of the air.She also felt the endless sky and earth in different colours.She felt so much joy in this plunge that she wanted to stay there and never to return to the earth.She successfully landed in a sand pit,her target.Everybody congratulated her on her successful parachute jump.She proved to the men that,being a weak woman,she could equal them even in risky adventures like parachute jumping.
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