Dear Readers,
This essay was probably one of the more interesting and fun essays I have written in my long career as a student. I have never tried to write in this particular structure before, but I am confident that it will be quite rewarding after some revision. Instead of following the usual flow of “introduction, body, ending” I decided to flip things around – “ending, body, introduction.” I wanted to see if it was possible to write a piece where readers would see the ending, the point of the story, first, and then work backwards to the starting point, the reason why the point had to be made.
In writing this piece I tried to imagine a story where such a reversal may work. Only two events in my life sprang to mind: the first time I’ve flown on a plane by myself, and the first time I went hiking. Since I don’t remember too clearly what happened on that plane flight, I decided to go with the hiking trip (besides, the hiking story could be much more easily broken into segments I can rearrange). The point of the story, which is to trust your instinct when you feel you need to prepare, was delivered at the beginning through the final scene of the story. The ending spoke of the reason why I did not prepare properly, which is the actual beginning of the story. The roles have been completely reversed.
I hope that readers will find this experiment to be entertaining at the least, because I certainly did. I personally liked how the draft turned out, and plan to include a lot more in the revision, particularly about the individual characteristics of my friends, who are only mentioned briefly. It was a necessary sacrifice in my opinion, to not give too much information about them at this stage in order to remain close to my objective, but I will take pleasure in filling them out satisfactorily later on.
