Mount Vesuvius-Personal Narrative

When we were trying to cross the river the current picked up and I fell a couple of times because it started raining, and I could feel the rocks when I hit the ground and I could taste the fishy water. But there was no lightening so we kept swimming in the river for a long time. While we swimming down stream Will saw a bridge and he wanted to go there. Right when we saw the bridge it thundered it was so loud that I could hear it like it was right in my ear.

He does so through subtle yet artfully crafted figurative language, abundant throughout the novel. “[...] a big truck came around the corner and shot past us into the next curve, its trailer shimmying wildly” (1). “[The salmon] were already dying. The change from salt to fresh water had turned their flesh rotten” (75). While these two uses of metaphorical language occur years and dozens of pages apart, they both paint a grim picture of what lies in store for Toby.

This would affect the other colonist lives especially for the children that were there and were coming to an unknown country now fatherless or motherless and

Here are my 3 cited. Here are 3 cited details from the passage. Elsie turned to two frantic women beside her and said simply. God will save you.she trying to make everyone calmer.

The current is too strong, and I go flying directly over it. My boat flipped over in mid-air, and I am submerged under the water for what felt like an eternity. I make it above the water, just to be hit by the boat coming in behind me. It knocked me right in the head, leaving a bruise. I am still grateful to this day that nothing worse happened, for if I were to be knocked out, I would have most certainly drowned.

There is one moment in the story where all his developed instincts were challenged. He was met with a school of flying fish that would jump out of the water and into the lifeboat. He had wrapped one fish in a blanket and intended to kill it with a hatchet. He could not bring himself to kill this fish with a hatchet, but ultimately cannot go through with it. Pi ends

We went by boat. When we go there we played for a while and then had our picnic. Once it was time for us to go home we realized that the boat had already gone and we were left stranded. I became emotional and started to cry as I so badly wanted to go home. My friend Simon had an idea and suggested that we use pebbles to spell out the word h.e.l.p on the shore.

Her voice was so loud, so fierce, it blew the king of the crocodiles to the far east end of the garden. He was blown so far that he would spend an eternity trying to crawl back to his watering hole. "Mother!" Proserpina exclaimed. "SILENCE CHILD!"

My brothers were running around the dock releasing all their energy showing no signs of seasickness. The second

I layed Kendal down in the boat still unconscious as well did Tyler with Andrea and I said” get in the boat I’ll pull the cord” The rain pounded against my face. And I pulled the cord and we hit the water and Ethan and Tyler grabbed a paddle as I looked for anything to keep us warm I had two coats on for some reason so i took them off and gave one to Marissan and Amanda. Then the other one to Kendal and Andrea.

Only the Ferris wheel still has a certain stately grace. When the wind catches in its rusty spokes, it valiantly grinds back into action with a screech. People who have visited Spreepark at night insist it sounds more like a groan, as if the place is still having nightmares about the drama of its demise.”

The hyena stands above my head growling foaming at the mouth about to lunge, the hyena takes irs first leap and I jump out with my razor sharp teeth killing the hyena in a single bite. Pi does get extremely scared and falls backwards almost going overboard. I did not want the hurt him so I take a step back and sit. He got in a fighting pose and I just sat.

One of the pirates grabbed an ax and began chopping away. After two of the three masts fell, the pirates and the captive crew all huddled together in desperation to hear one of the literate men on the ship The pirates and sailors on the Mary Anne were relieved when daybreak arrived. The ship ran a ground on a small island south of Eastham, and it being low tide they could actually jump down from the ship onto dry ground. The pirates picked up at the point where they were so rudely interrupted by continuing to drink down the wine that survived the storm. Samuel Bellamy died on April 26,1717

So I stood up an moved onto the next antagonist. There was kids (2,5,9,13) an woman onboard at this point so I go over the side of the boat willingly but I was pushed over additionally. The closest guy was Aaron J Gagala an 2 other guys looking to board. I just wanted to take the fight off the boat for safety of minors an woman. At this time I fought Aaron J Gagala short, white, forearm tattoo of trees, above average build an some other guy beside the vessel where I boarded the boat earlier.

The place looked a lot like this. It smelled of fried fish and sunscreen, with a side of fries. I still cannot believe it happened. He just shot him like Han Solo and Greedo at the Cantina. Then the next shot hurt even more.