My father
Khushboo Nath, Group 4: Fiction, St. Margaret's Co-educational English Secondary & Primary School
y name is Rosalie. I am the daughter of Alex and Emma. I am going to tell you my story. I live
with my mother Emma and sister Jennifer, my father died when I was 6 years old because he was
an architect and he had an assignment to design the structure of the great wall of china and he got
killed by the owner under the false accusation of being disloyal to the owner and spreading out the
secret of how to build the great wall of china to a builder. It has been many years since he died but
even today I and my mother are fighting for justice to prove that my father and her husband was innocent .
Before I tell you anything else. I want to tell you that I live in New York; after my father died my mother
couldn’t live in china anymore because it reminded her of my father. So we decided to move to New York and
start a new life. My mother owns a restaurant and I work as a manager in a hotel. Every morning I and my
mother lie to each other that we didn’t cry in the memory of my father. My mother used to keep distance with
Jennifer I don’t know why may be because she was adopted but it was my mother’s decision to adopt her.
Jennifer is 8 years old and she always used to cry in a corner when my mother used to talk to me sweetly and
ignore her as if she doesn’t exist. But I always support her because I feel like she doesn’t have anyone to care
for her or love her.
My mom and grandma used to fight over the death of my father whenever grandma visited us because
grandma thinks that the death of my father was not the false accusation but he committed suicide because my
mother pressurized him to earn more money and work on extra shifts. But the truth that my father told me was
that he used to visit the site of construction of the Great Wall of China at night to find out the secret of the tombs
under the construction site. And my grandma misunderstood the situation.
My father used to tell me stories about the tombs; he told me that he and his workers used to hear noises at
night during the construction. Some words in Chinese would suddenly appear on large hard surfaces like bricks
but no one could understand them because they were written in traditional Chinese that none of the workers
understood. He also told me that once when he was working late at night designing the plan to create the Great
Wall of China his drawing materials suddenly vanished and he found them outside where the workers were
working and he saw a red cross drawn on the materials. He thought of it as a sign of not building the Great Wall
of China because it might bring bad luck. Thus, he decided to share his experience with one of his best friends
who was a builder, so he told the incidents that have been happening to him in the construction site to his best
friend. His best friend advised him to leave the job as an architect for planning the design of the Great Wall of
China because it could harm my father or his family. My father thought a lot about his advice and finally
decided to tell the owner that he will no longer design the structure of the Great Wall of China.
At first, the owner was surprised because of father’s decision, since he has been a loyal and hard working
employee. After a few days the owner decided to meet father’s best friend because he thought that he would
know why father decided to quit his job but father’s best friend lied to the owner and told him that father was
too scared to be caught that he sold the plan of the great wall of china to him. And as soon as the owner heard
about it he became angry and went to my father and killed him in anger after that he ran away and was not to be
found by the police. Although, father’s best friend got arrested because he was as guilty as the owner.
I know all these situations because my father wrote it to me in a letter when he quitted his job and told my mom
to give it to me on my 18th birthday. Today is my 18th birthday and all my questions have been answered today.
I can proudly say that my father was innocent because he was tricked by his best friend. Today is the hearing in
court of father’s case. His best friend is sentenced imprison for life for the accusation of provoking the owner to
kill my father. Although, the Great Wall of China is one of the wonders of the world today but it has many
stories still alive in there. This is my story of how the Great Wall of China was the reason of my father’s death.
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