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No Heart

October 22, 2021
By YOYOYOYOIMLUKE BRONZE, Cupertino, California
YOYOYOYOIMLUKE BRONZE, Cupertino, California
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He stole her heart; tall, strong, smart, handsome, kind, selfless. She always thought her fiance was truly perfect, an angel sent by god to help her through her miserable diseased life, from childhood to adulthood. They played together, laughed together, went to church together, cried together, went to prom together, slept together, and stuck together until she left, truly a match made in heaven. He was an angel and was her angel alone. He would always sacrifice himself-his happiness, money, and even physical well being- for her; so on the faithful day of Friday, August 13th when both of them got into a car crash and put on life support she never would’ve expected the nurse to one day bring the news that her fiance would be the person to ruin her chance at finally getting a heart transplant. She always knew her fiance was better than her- kinder, smarter, healthier-, but she never considered that he would also be the better candidate for a heart donation.


The author's comments:

This is a set piece I wrote. For this set piece I used irony(more specifically situational irony) to give the reader a surprise and just to make the story less bland. Situational irony is basically when something happens that you don’t expect to happen(ex. Fire station on fire). The situational irony is shown when the phrase at the beginning, he stole her heart, turns out to be literal and when its stated that her fiance always sacrificed himself for her, but in the end she’s the one getting the short end of the stick and she gets sacrificed for him(she doesn’t get the heart transplant, but her fiance does). There’s also a little bit of foreshadowing with angels who represent a guide to heaven(which hints that fiance is the person who’s gonna send her to heaven since she refers to him as an angel), Friday the 13th foreshadowing something bad is gonna happen that day, and when it’s stated, “they stuck together until she left” and that lightly hints that she left the world, it also counts as irony since the reader might’ve thought that phrase meant they broke up. I really like this set piece because of the plot twist.


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