BY WEILI!!:)

This story is about an old man called Jim Brennan who likes to imagine, waking up on his seventy-sixth birthday. Although it was his birthday, there was no one to help him celebrate. Instead, he found joy opening letters of electricity bills. He imagined his childhood sweetheart appearing at his frontdoor asking him out to play. However, he turned down her offer as he could not play with the dead. When Ellen was alive, Jim and her were deeply in love. However, one day, his father brought him to the city and under bad influence, Jim learnt wrong things. He took away Ellen's virginity and abandoned her. He felt remourseful now but things could not go back as they were since Ellen was already dead. The story ended when Jim died and Ellen and him reunited.

I feel that Jim was very irresponsible when he was young. He should not have abandoned Ellen after having sex with her. This had hurt Ellen deeply. Although Jim may be remourseful, but he still cannot amend the pain he had caused to Ellen mentally. I am glad that he finally understood where he went wrong. But he matured too late. By the time he realised his mistake, Ellen was already dead.

But Jim cannot be blamed entirely. His firlty father should also be blamed. He should not take Jim to those places. But human makes err. I feel that Jim should be forgiven as during that time it was a foolish mistake and he was still young and immature. From this story, we can learn that time do not wait. just like Jim realised his mistake too late. We can also learn that we shoudl always think of the consequences before action.