A Dramatic Monologue Essay, Research Paper

They will be back in twenty-five minutes,

But I’ll show them.

I’ll show them that I can do this.

Climb these steps like everyone else. They think I’m decrepit, a burden, old.

Well I’ll climb them.

I walk towards them with my stick.

I look up, 15 maybe 20 steps to climb. I rest my stick upon the first step.

I raise my foot and rest it on the step with my stick.

I concentrate hard on that step

And push, push hard and I’m up. I’m up on the first step,

I can’t believe it.

I feel sure I can do it.

Why, it wasn’t that difficult. I climb the second step,

I can feel my heart pounding,

Then it starts slowing down.

It stops. I drop my stick and fall backwards,

I am lying at the bottom looking up at those steps,

Wishing with all my heart that I won’t die.

I lie there trying to breathe, I can’t, I hear the phone ring.