Personal Narrative - My Dad, Formally Known as Superhero :: Personal Narrative Writing

My Dad, Formally Known as SuperheroWhen I was twelve, I started fasting on Yom Kippur. That was the year I had my Bat Mitzvah and the year I became a Jewish woman. In the few geezerhood before I turned twelve, I ate meagerly on that holiest day - no junk food, no breakfast. And in the years before that, I ate whatever I wanted. My mom too. Shes not Jewish - she just happened to marry my Jewish dad. My dad always fasted. Hed go to Temple in the morning, and wed go with him - me, my sister, and my mom. My sister was a baby, and I sat on the radical and colored my coloring books on the metal chair I was supposed to be sitting in, which pleased my parents because I didnt make noise. At one or so, wed leave Temple and drive home. The car windows would be rolled up tight, locking in the rays of the early afternoon sun, and I would bask, free and alive, dressed up and soaking in the suns light. The sunshine really does look different in the very middle of the day. When we got home, my mo m would make me a snack, and Id go off and calculate or something. I dont really remember. My dad would nap, or read. I do remember that. He was no fun on Yom Kippur. A few years later, I think I must have been about nine. We got home from Temple, and the kitchen was lit by that hot and yellow midday sunshine. Our striped curtains hung eagerly. My dad set down on the living room couch and picked up his book, and my mom flipped through some papers on the kitchen table. Or maybe she was downstairs. It doesnt matter. I undefended the refrigerator and pulled out the fruit drawer at the bottom. There were four granny smiths lying in wait. I picked the best one and rinsed it in the sink. It was the biggest, the roundest, the firmest. The grassiest green. It promised to be the juiciest. I grabbed the towel from the oven door and dried it. I slid on my socks across the kitchen floor and into the living room and bit down, hard. It was a spacious bite. A huge cruncher That bite echoed aro und the whole house - into the bedrooms and into the bathrooms it attacked my dad on the couch, and probably even rocketed the neighbors.