15/07/2025
A female student wearing a mourning scarf to the exam – the story behind it made the whole school cry...“That morning, the whole schoolyard seemed to stand still when the small female student walked through the gate with a white mourning scarf hastily tied on her head. Curious eyes followed, whispers fell in the hot summer air. But only one person knew why she still tried to go to school on the most painful day of her life...” On Monday morning, St. Edmund High School, a normal school located in the countryside, was still bustling as usual. But today was more special – the day of the 13th grade Literature exam. The whole school seemed to be packed with students, teachers, and the tense atmosphere pervaded from the classrooms to the hallways. Amidst the rush of people, an image made the whole schoolyard seem to fall silent for a moment: a female student of class 12A3 walked in, her head wrapped in a white scarf, her face pale, her steps staggering as if she was trying to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. My name is Emily Grace. Teacher Dawson, the school's veteran supervisor, was shocked when he saw Mai: - "Mai... you... you're wearing a mourning scarf? Why are you still taking the exam today?" Emily Grace bowed her head slightly, her voice trembling but determined: - "Yes... yesterday my father passed away. But I still want to take the exam. My father once said: 'Never give up, no matter what happens'. I have to do what he said." That sentence was like a knife cutting into the listener's heart. Teacher Dawson was silent for a few seconds, then just nodded, and led her into the exam room. The entire exam room suddenly became quiet, no one dared to breathe loudly. Emily Grace was the best student in the grade. From grade 10 to grade 12, she was always the first name on the list of outstanding students of the school. But few people knew that behind those impressive achievements was an incomplete family. Emily's mother left when she was in grade 3. Since then, the two father and daughter depended on each other. Emily's father - Mr. Thomas Grace - is a simple, skinny mechanic, but he always beams when talking about his daughter: "She studies very well, she said she wants to be a Literature teacher like her homeroom teacher in the future... I don't have much education, but seeing her work hard makes me happy." One time it rained heavily, Emily was soaked to the ground when her bicycle broke down in the middle of the road. That day, her father braved the rain to the school gate to apologize to the teacher because his daughter was late. Seeing him trembling while holding a raincoat, everyone felt sorry for him. But fate was too cruel. Four days before the exam, Emily's father had a stroke while working. Although he was rushed to the hospital, he did not survive. The funeral fell on the day of the Literature exam - Emily's favorite subject. The night before the exam, in a small, dilapidated house on the edge of a rice field, people saw Emily sitting alone at her desk. On the table was a photo of her father, placed solemnly next to the old fountain pen he had given her when she entered 10th grade. Emily wrote in her diary: “Dad, tomorrow I will take the exam, even though you are no longer here. I will do my best on the test. I won’t cry anymore, because I know you don’t want to see me sad. I promise to pass the university entrance exam, so you can rest easy far away...” The next morning, when Emily entered the exam room, everyone was silent. The young supervisor,Miss Hughes could not hold back her tears when she saw Emily sitting at her desk, pulling out a tissue to wipe her tears, then quietly picking up a pen to write. During the entire exam, she barely looked up. The exam paper gradually filled with words, the pen strokes were delicate, neat, and sometimes shaky. The topic that day was an excerpt from “The Boat Out at Sea” – talking about the beauty hidden behind pain. A topic that seemed to be written specifically for her. Emily’s essay not only analyzed the work but also interwoven her own true story – about a hard-working father who lived his whole life for his daughter, and about his small dream of seeing his daughter go to university. At the end of the essay, she concluded with the words: “If people say that literature is a place to express things that cannot be expressed in words, then today, I would like to send here my love for my father. I miss him so much...”..
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