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Blessing behind Tragedy

       There was a black family in Scotland years ago. They were Clark family with nine children. They had a dream to go to America. The family worked and saved. They make plan to travel with their children to America. It had taken several years but finally they had saved enough money. They had gotten passport. They had booked seats for the whole family member in a new liner to America.

The entire family was full of anticipation and excitement with their new life in America. However few days before their departure, the youngest son was bitten by a dog. The doctor sewed up the boy. Because of the possibility of getting rabies, there were being quarantined for long days. There were in quarantine when the departure time came. The family dreams were dashed.                They could not make the trip to America as they had planned. The father was full of disappointed and anger. He stomped the dock to watch the ship leaved without him and his family. He shed tears of disappointment. He cursed both his son and God for the misfortune. 

 Five days later, the tragic news spread throughout Scotland. The ship, the mighty Titanic, had shark. It took hundreds of passenger and crew with it. Titanic which had been called the unsinkable ship had sunk. It was unbelievable but it was.

The Clark family should have been on that ship, but because of the bitten son by dog, they were left behind. When the father heard the news, he hugged the son and thanked him for saving the family. He thanked God for saving their lives. It was a blessing behind a tragedy.

The generic structure of anecdote text is:

a.       Abstract: everybody has a dream. You have and so do I. When the dream will come true, there is something wrong last minute before it. What will we do?

b.      Orientation: the Clark family lived in Scotland. They had dream to travel to America. They prepared well for their plan.

c.       Crisis: few days before they went to America, his youngest son was bitten by a dog. It made they were behind quarantined. They had to forget their plan.

d.      Incident: the family was full of disappointment and anger. The father was angry with his son and God. The family failed to travel to America and the father could not accept it.

e.       Coda: the father thank to his son when he hear the ship sank. He thank to God because of saving the family from sinking. He thought leaving behind the ship was not a tragedy but a blessing.