I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy for senior year English in high school. After I read it, the story and the images haunted me for a long time. I wrote part of a college essay on a character, one of my AP English essays on justice in an unjust world, and the book made the short list of ones I would bring to college (it did not make the final list, but it is on my floor at home, which means it was almost in my suitcase).
But even though the images and ideas stuck with me, they faded, as things often do with time. And so I never applied the images and ideas to Abu Dhabi, until now. I was in my friend Norina's room and the book was on her shelf for her Journeys class.
And the images came rushing back and I saw them painted onto the skyline of Abu Dhabi. I can't describe the new skyline I see because the images are what I created from reading the book, but it is a sobering picture that seems very close to what could be reality.
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But even though the images and ideas stuck with me, they faded, as things often do with time. And so I never applied the images and ideas to Abu Dhabi, until now. I was in my friend Norina's room and the book was on her shelf for her Journeys class.
And the images came rushing back and I saw them painted onto the skyline of Abu Dhabi. I can't describe the new skyline I see because the images are what I created from reading the book, but it is a sobering picture that seems very close to what could be reality.
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