Writing Workshop

Rewrite the article as if it were a diary entry of one of the thirty-eight people who watched the murder. Summarize what you saw, and explain why you decided not to call for help. (You may invent details that Gansberg does not include.)

Dear Diary,
I think that my husband and I have done something unforgivable. Is it our fault? Maybe if we had called the police as soon as we heard Kitty call for help, nothing of this would have happened. She would still be alive. It was so early in the morning and I didn't think that something like that would happen. If only I had known. I was scared when I heard Kitty scream and my husband and I turned on the apartment light. But we couldn't see well with the light one, so we decided to turn it off. I saw two figures. It was a man and a women, and I knew that the woman was Kitty. I know that a part of me deep down knew that she was in trouble, but I didn't listen to myself.
From an apartment somewhere near us I heard a man shout to the man to let Kitty go. Soon after the man left. But right before he left I was sure that he looked straight at my husband and me. Fear flooded my mind and body. I wanted to call the police right then, but my husband told me to stay out of it. It was none of our business he said. I couldn't close my eyes for the remainder of the night. I couldn't stop thinking about Kitty.
Only minutes after my husband and I went back to bed we heard the police. I had this nasty feeling in my heart. What had happened to Kitty? I walked out of the apartment just in time to see the ambulance leave with a very dead Kitty. Yes I believe that it was our fault. We didn't pick up the stupid phone to call the police. The police asked us why we didn't call them. There was nothing I could tell them. All of the excuses sound lame and stupid. "I don't know," I said.