The Things They Carried Mimicry Essay

High school junior Belle Sauer carried her favorite books, Howl’s Moving Castle and In Cold Blood. The books would occasionally get bent in her bag, although Belle tried hard to take good care of them. During lunch, or after school, she would open them and read them, again and again. Her mind would drift away and she’d imagine herself talking to a fire demon.

The things she carried were largely determined by how bad she needed them. Some things she didn’t necessarily need but still liked to have were gum packets, candy bars, packets of strawberry water sweetener, candy, and a water bottle, if she felt like it. Her friend Sierra Johnson, who had a small backpack, only carried small but important things.

Things almost everyone carried were cell phones. If you were to check in almost anyone’s pocket, you would most likely find a phone, all with their own memories and different cases. They would look at them frequently, even when they were not supposed to. They loved to see which one of their friends liked their selfie or saw their Snapchat.

As a student in AP classes, Belle Sauer carried her AP Lang books and her AP Stats books, pages marked with sticky notes. She carried a calculator and a large amount of procrastination.

As a choir student, Belle carried around music sheets, music notes, and music worksheets. She carried around music itself, in her mind, for she could never stop singing or humming a song.

On the first day of school, before Belle’s happiness died, she carried a planner, and a hope for the year. She felt like she could do good this year – unfortunately her dreams were crushed.

She carried her Lang binder, her Stats notebook and folder, her choir folder, her Spanish binder, her ceramics notebook, and an intense hatred for procrastination.

She carried her immense teenage emotions, one of those emotions and feeling being self-hate. She carried her large black backpack, full of papers and folders and books, and she always carried her chapstick, which she always needed. She carried herself around even, on the days when she wanted to give up, she kept on going.  

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