Sierra Hayes
1/23/1
Period 5
About eleven o’clock and the orchestra is playing one of their hit songs. Men and women drinking and dancing and laughing. Everyone seems to be having a great time. They think about their future and how great their new lives will be...but only if they knew what was about to happen.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a large ship holding about 2500 passengers starts to sink. Its dead in the night, about 2:30 a.m. The loud sirens start going off, and lights flash everywhere making it look like a slow motion video. Women are gathering their children and men are called to the upper deck. Families being separated, people crying, everyone running trying to get to the lifeboats. Women and children get to go onto the lifeboats first. The men are left to only hope theres enough lifeboats to save themselves. Within seconds each one of the filled lifeboats are dropped down to the rough ocean waves. They just drop, one after another. Children screaming feeling the rush of the cold salty breeze go through their hair and sting their face as the lifeboats are launched into the ocean. After the lifeboats are filled and almost all passengers are off board the captain gives one last goodbye. He pulls the rope that sounds the horn and the passengers wave a goodbye. The ship creeks and lights flash from sparks flying in the dark night. Water rushing into the cabins one by one until meeting the captain's office. He stands at the wheel without fright as the cold water rushes against his legs and rising up to his chest, then up to his chin, then submerging him completely under water. The force of the ocean dragging the ship down and the captain going along. He never let go of the wheel and never will.
The mothers on the lifeboats weep as they lose sight of the ship. The children asking where their daddies are and the mothers having no way of responding. Thoughts running through their mind making it where they can’t think straight. Cold winds leaving brush burn on their cheeks. Never knowing if they will ever make it back home...
1/23/1
Period 5
About eleven o’clock and the orchestra is playing one of their hit songs. Men and women drinking and dancing and laughing. Everyone seems to be having a great time. They think about their future and how great their new lives will be...but only if they knew what was about to happen.
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a large ship holding about 2500 passengers starts to sink. Its dead in the night, about 2:30 a.m. The loud sirens start going off, and lights flash everywhere making it look like a slow motion video. Women are gathering their children and men are called to the upper deck. Families being separated, people crying, everyone running trying to get to the lifeboats. Women and children get to go onto the lifeboats first. The men are left to only hope theres enough lifeboats to save themselves. Within seconds each one of the filled lifeboats are dropped down to the rough ocean waves. They just drop, one after another. Children screaming feeling the rush of the cold salty breeze go through their hair and sting their face as the lifeboats are launched into the ocean. After the lifeboats are filled and almost all passengers are off board the captain gives one last goodbye. He pulls the rope that sounds the horn and the passengers wave a goodbye. The ship creeks and lights flash from sparks flying in the dark night. Water rushing into the cabins one by one until meeting the captain's office. He stands at the wheel without fright as the cold water rushes against his legs and rising up to his chest, then up to his chin, then submerging him completely under water. The force of the ocean dragging the ship down and the captain going along. He never let go of the wheel and never will.
The mothers on the lifeboats weep as they lose sight of the ship. The children asking where their daddies are and the mothers having no way of responding. Thoughts running through their mind making it where they can’t think straight. Cold winds leaving brush burn on their cheeks. Never knowing if they will ever make it back home...