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Personal Narrative Essay: America's Impact On The Titanic

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On a cool day in Southampton, England sat an older couple perched on a bench on a dock overlooking the Atlantic ocean. The waves were beating against the dock but it was overall a calm day. The couple sitting on the bench went by the names of Jack and Rose, they were survivors of the Titanic. It is now present day. Jack: “Today is such a beautiful day, almost as beautiful as the day I first saw you.” Rose: “ Oh jack you’re going to make me blush, that was a beautiful day, but all I can think about is how many people I boarded the ship with and how many actually survived.” Jack: “ It was a very tragic event that happened, one of America’s most tragic event at the time and still to this day. I cannot believe how it still impacts America the …show more content…

Captain Smith wanted to make headlines, ultimately killing so many people which America now recognizes, but people are still in a constant battle for the headlines, as if they didn’t learn.” Rose: “ Also race was such a big issues back then and I thought it would have been resolved by now and it got better for awhile and now people are coming back stronger with the black lives matter, why cannot they just leave it alone and all get along?” They sat there and talked about the tragic day and events that happened that day, they talked about how people can still relate to certain things that the happened on the Titanic.They also talked about the movie that was made and how accurate it was and how the director made the movie to inform people about what happened. They both agreed that in doing this it continued the Titanic’s legacy and in the way the director made the movie he really captured what happened and shaped the movie by making it in chronological order. They continued their talk only now they started to walk up and down the dock. Rose: “ I sometimes wish that what happened on the Titanic affected everyone the same

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