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Ideas, suggestions, examples needed???10pts best answer!!?

Im in the middle of writing a story and Im having the worst time trying to describe the reaction of someone who has just turned on their tv to find that one of their closest friend has died tragically in a car accident.

Im drawing a blank. Ideas , suggestions and examples to help get me started would be greatly appreciated.

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  • CC
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Just a few ideas (that would probably be better if it weren't so late - eastern time) - and I don't know if person is man/woman or boy/girl - but maybe this will help get you started:

    Stupefied ... wants to see the news broadcast again because can't believe it's true ...

    stands up, starts yelling NO at the TV ...

    staggers as he/she stands .... as if drunk...

    crumples to floor but can't take eyes off the TV - as if there were answers there, or as if hoping for a "mistaken identity" announcement...

    jacknifes in pain (bends double at waist), practically falls to floor from the shock (this happened to me when I got a phone call telling me my mom had died - it was like a huge blow to the gut)

    good luck!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Actually...this just happened to me a week and a half ago. I got the news by email though rather than television.

    A little 5 year old girl that I knew died.

    I wasn't sure how to react. I just stared at the screen for about 5 minutes straight with thoughts racing through my head saying that everything was perfectly fine and that nothing had really happened. But then once I went downstairs to tell my mom....the truth hit me. She really had died.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A sudden violent impact on your mind and emotions that causes you an acute state of pain that radiates throughout you body leaving you physically weak and completely sick to your stomach. Your spirit becomes depressed when you acknowledge the loss rendering you hopelessl. The despair causing each breath you take sharp as a knife and your heart feeling that it has an open wound that doesn't want to heal. The horror to much to take in mentally so you double check to see if you heard right as denial is a temporary reprieve from the excruciating pain your feeling. Good luck on your story and I hope you never have to feel any of these emotions.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well if i turned on my tv and realized that my closest friend ad died. I would probably be so shocked and sad, that i wouldn't cry until it actually hit me.

    just think about how you would feel if that would happen?, and use that in your story

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    (this is if lucas's eyes had replaced not sarah's it is merely the way i see it) Lucas has a speedy flashback of what handed off whilst they broke-up. He remembered that he made a be conscious in no thank you to try this way of ingredient returned. as much as he did not advise to look so unwanting to Sarah, Lucas could desire to not help himself. Sarah needed to be responsive to what went incorrect with him, yet, on 2nd concept she desperate to not. Sarah had unusaly considered the comparable day, and needed to chat. Paying no interest to the buriel, Sarah walked over to Lucas, and stood appropriate to him like a crowded mall and wispered gentle adequate to make it for the time of to Lucas' ear, "comprise me to the caf'e down on Southern highway." She persevered, "we ought to communicate" After each little thing replaced into achieved and over with Lucas observed Sarah to the french caf'e and talked all night. Lucas replaced into hours removed from abode and desperate to stay with Sarah for the night.-----that s all I even have for now yet i replaced into questioning extra handed off, lucas in no way have been given abode and that they observed the wear-up day and relized that they have got been incorrect to bypass aside and that they have got been appropriate for another they quickly have been given married and had little ones-------------wish i helped thax love ur concepts already!!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    i would be SHOCKED, DEVASTATED, MELANCHOLY(sad), worried, depressed

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