historical fiction informational narritives by theo and carter
Theo Tuori's narrative
“Uh , another boring game of Frisbee,”I say. But little did I know something exciting was going to happen.Life for Sam was pretty boring and ordinary back then. Sam was a fifteen year old boy who enjoyed apples and Frisbee. It all started with a long, boring game of Frisbee under the gigantic shadow of "the Fuji of America" or Mt St Helens. I wish something exciting happened around here,” his friend Ethan moaned. ”Yeah!” Sam replied. “There is a rumor that Mt St Helens is bulging,” pipes Owen, excitedly, ”It might erupt!” After that we went back to playing boring old Frisbee. Three days later a radio and TV announcement were issued all over town. WARNING! MOUNT ST. HELENS IS AT RISK FOR ERUPTING was blaring. At first, everyone thought it was a minor eruption like in 1898, 1903 and 1932; but studies proved it would be a huge eruption. The biggest eruption Mt St Helens would ever have so far.The next day a 5.1 magnitude earthquake, that was as ferocious as a bear, made the whole north face of Mt. St. Helens collapse into the world's largest landslide. The landslide came screaming down the mountain at a mind boggling 150 MPH! The main path of the landslide was across the west of Spirit Lake. Sam and Ethan were back playing Frisbee when they saw the landslide. ”RUN!”Sam screams “IT’S ERUPTING!” Sam starts sprinting away from home. The eruption was 20 times more powerful than the little boy that was dropped on Hiroshima during WWII. Sam’s family, along with Owen and Ethan’s families, began following him. After 2 hours of sprinting Sam starts to feel tired. Dust is everywhere and it smells like his dad's cigar ashes. Suddenly, Owen falls. His breathing is faint. ”Speak!” Sam croaks, as the gases distort his breathing. ”Go save yourself” Owen coughs. “No!” Sam screams. ”Come help Owen!” The others stop and come running. A cloud of smoke covers us. We can hear each other's raspy breathing, slowly our hearts start to fail from the lack of oxygen in the air.Through the noise and smoke Sam hears the distant hum of a motor growing closer and closer. ”Help!” Sam yells as a rescue helicopter flies overhead. The copter is crude and looks like a flying, bloated, mutilated white sheep. As the pilot sees us he picks up a strange device and speaks into it then he slowly comes out of the sky to pick us up. The helicopter is awesome, It's warm and comforting. As he flies us to a hospital, Sam is put to sleep by the hum of the engine.Three days later Sam was sitting in his hospital bed with his friends close by. ”I can’t believe this actually happened.” Sam said to himself. “I feel like it was all a dream.
Carter hammond's narrative
Hi, my name is Carter. I am 12 years old. It’s 2 days before we are going to Washington State. It is about 2,780.5 miles away! I live in Ithaca. It’s a small city in New York. The reason I like Ithaca is because it’s just a small city. OK it’s time to stop talking about where I live. So I told you where i’m going to Washington I am staying for 2 weeks. and how about I talk about the main reason I wrote this story MY AWESOME VACATION!!!!!. I think it’s going to be fun because there is this big there is this big volcano named Mount Saint Helens. People say there has been some pretty weird things happening with that volcano so this vacation could be awesome or really bad.So tomorrow is the big day so today is May 18 of 1980 it’s the day before my vacation. I think it’s going to be my favorite vacation right now is 12:54 PM so goodnight I say to myself because tomorrow is a big day. So today is the day i’m going on my vacation to Washington St. to see Mount Saint Helens. I have to start packing. Flashlight check, socks check, my life check, underwear check, scooter check. “Honey where leaving” “OK mom”. 9 hours and 20 minutes later so where finally at Washington. Right now it is 7:00 we had to leave at 2:25 so we could make our 4:20 flight. We got to our hotel at 8:00 i got to our hotel and i turned on the TV and watched my favorite show Naruto. Half a hour later I heard a big boom!!!!! The thing I new everything was gone.