Leslie's essay from A Bridge to Terabithia

Here's Leslie's essay from A Bridge to Terabithia :

"I'm moving gently forward,

  

over the wild and beautiful,

unexplored world below me.

  

I'm floating in silence,

  

and breaking it up

with the sound of my breath.

  

Above me, there's nothing

but shimmery light,

  

the place where I've come from,

  

and will go back to

when I am done here.

  

I'm diving.

  

I'm a scuba diver.

  

I'm going deeper past

the wrinkled rocks and dark seaweed

  

toward a deep blueness

where a school of silver fish waits.

  

As I swim through the water,

  

bubbles burst from me,

wobbling like little jellyfish

as they rise.

  

I check my air.

I don't have as much time

as I need to see everything,

  

but that is what makes it so special."

(Source:  http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/bridge-to-terabithia-script.transcript.html)

It is a very beautiful piece and I think it is worth a share. In the film "A Bridge to Terabithia", Leslie told Jess that she had never been to a diving; all of these experiences came from her imagination. "A Bridge to Terabithia" really establish the power of imagination. This essay foreshadows Leslie's death as it says "I don't have as much time as I need to see everything," and "Above me, there's nothing but shimmery light, the place where I've come from, and will go back to when I am done here." 

I like her essay lot. Especially when I watch the film again, after I already knew Leslie's death in the later part of the film. I was really sad when I watch Leslie presenting her essay in class. My first thought was "why it has to be her?" and my second thought was"of course it can be her, it can be anyone." Death and unfortunate happen in our lives. Knowing that Leslie's death is related to the water. I deeply hope that Leslie wasn't that suffering as she approaching the end of her life.