Topic: My one-of-a-kind grandfather
Main Body:
Main idea: My grandfather is special because he showed to me how perseverance, patience and
love can make a difference in one's life.
(1)Topic sentence 1: My grandpa had been through a really though time during his
teenage years.
Supporting examples:
1) He was a hard-working student in his hometown, in order to have a better studying
opportunty, he moved to Jinan and live with his grandpa.
2) His grandpa passed away but he had no money to burry him. He almost had to "sell
himself" to be a slave. Luckily, he had gotten enough money at last.
3) Few years later, the Chinese Civil War broke down, and he was fored to become a
rufugee.
4) During this trip, many bad things happened (I didn't put them in the right order because
I have to comfirm the time again ):
(1) He was sent into the jail because the Taiwanese government thought he was a spy
that Communist Party of China sent to show how poor you would be if you still
want to stay with the Koumintang.
(2) After he had worked for a while, he finally saved enough money to buy a new pair
of shoes, but after he washed them and put them under the sun to dry it, someone
stole them right away. He had no choice but wear the pair of old shoes which a
kind woman gave him.
(3) His girlfriend who kept all of his money ran away with another guy. Luckily his
teacher shared his room with my grandpa so that my grandpa wouldn't have to
live on the street.
(2)Topic sentence 2: No one compares to my grandpa when it comes to perseverance.
Supporting sentences/ examples:
1) His studying: He had loved studying since he was young. He continued studying even
when he was a refugee. He made to the NTU by himself.
2) Among all of the subjects, his favorite was math. But because his major in university
was history, he then have to learn it by himself. After he graduated from university,
instead of being a history teacher, he became a math teacher instead. Few years later,
he began to teach in Jianzhong.
(2)Topic sentence 3: A serious disease can take away one's life easily.
Supporting sentences/ examples:
1) My grandpa had once fall down from a wall and caused him stayed in the ICU for a few
days, but he recovered magically.
2) 19 years later, he fainted in front of me, and we couldn't understand why. He was so
healthy before his first faint. Few weeks later, we finally found out the reason that
caused him faint-- the epilepsy. And the doctor said that the reason to his epilepsy maybe
was because of the scar in his brain that he left there 19 years ago.
3) A year later, his health condition worsened, and another disease also came to him-- the
senile dementia. This disease made him forgot many things, but the only thing he
wouldn't forget was to ask us whether we are cold, do we have enough money to
spend or have we eaten yet. Sometimes he was also stubborn and refused to take the
medicine. At last, he refused to eat.
4) During the last six months, he almost went to the hospital every month, he could hardly
walk due to the lack of exercise. At the last time he stayed there, he was sent to the ICU
because of his bad health condition. He made through few times of dangerous situation,
but at last, he didn't make it. He passed away in the morning of 5/17, just a day before
our school anniversary. I didn't make it to see his last minute, when we rushed to the
ICU, he had passed away a minute ago.
