Most Unusual Person example essay topic

E LOM KAYAKO ENGLISH COURSEWORK AN UNUSUAL PERSON On the outskirts of my neighbourhood, in an old brick red Victorian styled house, bordered on one side by a cemetery and on all other sides by thick bushes except the front, living in solitary existence is the weirdest and most unusual person known to me. This man, known only by the name of 'Macaulsky' by everyone in the neighbourhood is very mean. This has led to him being dubbed 'Old M' by all the children in the neighbourhood. Old M stands at four and a half feet, and has a slight hump on his crooked back.

His rust coloured hair, which seems to be hanging precariously on his bean shaped head as if on the verge of falling of is extremely bushy, and this makes him look very menacing. Due to this, whenever he is seen trudging grumpily along, all the children run indoors for cover. Old M has tiny bat-like ears, which seem to detect the faintest of sounds, as he can constantly be seen turning around, as if in response to some unseen person calling his name. The children in the neighbourhood, who call out his name from obscure places anytime he limps by, much to his displeasure, prey upon this particular trait of his mercilessly.

Old M has red blood shot eyes, which glow in the dark like hot coals, and is believed to be blind in one of his eyes, which can turn to certain angles that no normal eye can. The other eye, however, is as sharp as a hawk's, and with this, Old M takes in even the most trivial details, often with a scowl on his wrinkled, sun beaten face. Old M rarely smiles, however, on the rare occasions that he parts his thin, chapped, blood red lips, hidden by his bushy moustache, an incomplete set of yellow and brownish can be seen. He also has an oddly placed gold tooth, which, rumour has that, he possessed even as a little child. His long, pointed, bullet- like nose can always be seen twitching, like that of a rabbit's, and it is suspected that he can even detect the slightest whiff of a smell from within a hundred mile radius. Old M is as lean as a blind man's staff, and his bones are very conspicuous beneath his frail, death pale skin.

His tiny cassava-stem like legs, which at any point in time seem like they are about to break, are connected to huge, dinosaur- like feet. Old M can occasionally be heard yelling insults at little children, and even stray animals whenever they trespass on his property, and in certain instances, he even attempts to chase them off with a stick. On Sunday mornings, Old M can be seen sitting in the shade of a huge tree in his bushy compound, smoking his pipe and reading a huge stack of newspapers, with his portable radio broadcasting the news at full volume by his side. Even though Old M is quite mean and grumpy, studying him is a very interesting way to pass time, and his enigmatic and rather cruel nature makes him the most unusual person ever known to me..