Please re-read the following selection from teenink called "she has cancer".

pull a good example of descriptive writing and write it in this box with a brief explanation as to why your choice is a good example.

the air has changed in our house. everyone holds their breath, tiptoes around. as if being quiet will make the cancer go away, as if it can hear every sound we make. my older brother has adopted the cancer vow of silence, like a monk praying for nirvana. he stands in my doorway at night while i lie in bed reading cancer-free books. he stares and stares until i invite him onto my bed and read to him. my older brother does not speak, but sits on the flowered comforter that seems too joyful for our now-cancerous lives. we listen earnestly to the gentle drone of the radio, allowing it to fill the space between us. no words can be formed from this diagnosis. my mother has cancer and my older brother is silent.