Night Shift

A detailed Summary of Night Shift

Envision a dead-silent murky room with nothing to eye at aside from papers. Plentiful papers scattered about the room. With every tick of the clock, your eyelids descend further down; your palm is fiery like lava oozing down a recently erupted volcano, yet your fingertips are as frigid as the glacial lands of Antarctica. Even under these harsh conditions, you must still focus on the task at hand, studying for finals. These are the obstacles confronting Sean Wallace in his quest for academic excellence. Just when one has nothing left and prepared to give up, the words of Jimmy Valvano come into mind, "don't give up, don't ever give up."

It is Friday afternoon and a mentally exhausted Sean Wallace arrives home from school following a very long day of schoolwork with nothing on his mind besides finals, which will commence Monday.

"How was school Sean?" inquires Sean's mother.

Suitably named Angel, she is Sean's inspiration and comforter. She has devoted her entire life to her two kids, Sean and Sean's older brother, Frank. Aside from inspiring and comforting Sean, Angel also motivates him by preaching to him that education is the means to a successful life.

"Easy for you to say since you're not going to be studying into early morning."

"You know, you are right, I have had previous challenges where I thinks I could not possibly go on, but how did I? Henceforth, I will be confident and I will trust myself because I know my hard work will pay off someday. Thanks mom, you are always my Angel."

After sleeping for only four hours, Sean comes out of sleep and prepares for testing by eating a healthy meal and listening to some music in order to keep him calm. It is Monday morning and as Sean arrives at Chapel Hill High School his friends yell hi and hello but Sean is so focussed on the finals that these words are deaf to his ears. Sean enters through the front gates of the school as he usually does but instead of walking with friends and talking, he makes a taciturn entrance feeling that he has to be infallible today. Sean dreads the first final since it will be his strenuous Advanced English class. However, he believes that he has the courage and volition to succeed in this class because his hard work throughout the semester has to pay off during this difficult time.

"There are sandwiches on the table if you're hungry," suggests Angel.

"Wow," thinks Sean, "this test is not as difficult as I imagined it to be."

Mr. Elder mixes the papers and distributes one to every student for corrections and before long Sean would find out his grade. Sean is confident that he has received anything from an A- to an A+. After the class finishes correcting and sums up each grade, a classmate of Sean hands him the paper...19/20...A.

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Approximate Word count = 1799
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English