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Clearing of land and harvesting of lumber left large piles of saw dust and waste from the lumbering process throughout the forest. The poor lumbering practises made it easier for the fire to spread quickly. In addition, the cyclonic storm that cycled the area enhanced the intensity of the fire. The incident did not involve a flashover but it involved some backdraft.
Surrounding them was dense jungle with thick roots running along the ground, there was more than 30 rivers they had to cross. The mud in many areas was knee deep because of the amount of rain they were getting at that time. “At times we’d cover only a few hundred metres in an hour as we clambered down the slippery slopes or trudged, panting, up the sheer mountains. It’s mentally, as well as physically exhausting stuff. Just staying upright can, at times, take the utmost concentration.
First, war even outside the battlefield spreads destruction. One of the victim’s neighbors was forced by the city to demolish his home to make way for wider fire lanes. The neighbor notes her grief for the neighbor who was “tearing down his home, board by board, at a time when there was so much unavoidable destruction” (1040). If it hadn’t
“I hear a strange whistling sound that seems to grow louder, and the ground heavy and a loud thump echoes from somewhere below. The village, I think, and begin to run. … By then the explosions are closer and louder. They feel as if they’re happening inside my own chest. …
The book Night by Elie Wiesel gives a deeper look into what it was like to live in misery especially on pages 101 and 102. This passage shows how little they were cared about if they were even cared about at all. The prisoners were fed barely fed enough to stay alive it shows when the train transporting them to a new concentration camp and on there way citizens are throwing bread onto the bus watching them fight to the deaths for it. This passage shows the true dehumanization of the Jews during the holocaust.
The heat, sweltering; a bead of sweat runs from his brow mixing and smearing the dirt and powder residue on his cheek. Gunfire erupts, he looks. Hundreds of Indian braves smash into a thin blue line of cavalry Soldiers. His eyes track left to right--smoke, dust, rugged Earth. The light wind ruffles his unkempt brown hair.
This passage signifies the true nature of the being call evil. The beast represents the darkness of humanity, wild and uncontrollable, rampaging through the minds of everything. The Beast asks why things are that way. The answer would simply be the greed of power.
"This is a valley of fiery debris—an awesome ranch where cinders develop like wheat into edges and slopes and unusual patio nurseries; where slag take the types of houses and fireplaces and rising smoke and, at last, with an extraordinary exertion, of men who move faintly promotion as of now disintegrating through the fine air." (23) This section stood out to me since I have never heard powder be portrayed as something so delightful and pitiful in the meantime. This statement is about another life, as the fiery debris recovered new life in this dreary valley.
Suddenly everyone around started to die; they were healthy one day, then they developed black tumors on their bodies, and two days later they were gone. The streets became a graveyard, more than half of the town died and the others would not leave their house terrified that they would be the next to go. The town became hell and that is when they understood that it was the doing of the Jews. They were sent by Satan, they poisoned the water causing everyone to die in order to make Earth an inferno. Years later people realized that the Black Death was in fact caused by micro-organisms.
This dry climate caused the wooden buildings to become incredibly dry, allowing the fire to spread quickly once it began (Bauer). These factors triggered the formation of convection whirls, walls of fire over one hundred feet high which spun violently like a hurricane. A witness described the
The son and father use their fires to heat their cold bodies, while the mother used her fire to kill her baby. Another example of destruction by fire are the spontaneous fires that occur through the land. The man witnessed a “forest fire was making its way… flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights” (pg 31). Forests, typically lush and ripe with life, were rendered dead by the quick spreading fire. The destruction that the spreading fires caused is seen all throughout the environment.
Gods’ Hand in Devastation In the sixteenth century, a highly infectious disease known as the Black Plague, began to spread across the shores of Europe. The term the Black Plague was quickly recognized and feared by all Europeans. In just a short amount of time the disease had spread throughout the entire continent of Europe, killing roughly fifty percent of Europeans. Those who survived the disease were left wondering “why did this happen?”.
The Glass Castle Essay Wesley Murray A3 8/28/16 In Jeannette Walls’s book The Glass Castle, there are many examples of what is called human resilience. No better quote describes human resilience better than, “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead.
Vivid descriptions of the wind such as its’ “rattl[ing] the tops of garbage cans”, “dirt and dust and grime”, and “grit sting[ing] skins” create a sense of chaos that is common in the busy hustle of city life. The cold wind also “violent[ly] assault[s]” the residents of the city, allowing the reader to envision the truly excruciating and harrowing journey people in the urban setting must make regularly. Additionally, asyndeton is utilized masterfully throughout the passage to demonstrate the disarray caused by the wind. The wind finds “theater throwaways, announcements of dances and lodge meetings, the heavy waxed paper that loaves of bread had been wrapped in, the thinner waxed paper that enclosed sandwiches, old envelopes, newspapers.” This extensive list without the use of conjunctions speeds up the reading allowing a fast pace similar to the rapid attacks of the wind, enabling the reader to visualize the onslaught on the citizens.
It ripped up trees, destroyed cars, carried houses into the air… and Justin Sky was caught in the middle of it all. Justin tried to take cover, but everything was being destroyed. Him and his family searched frantically for shelter, and ran into a small building on the edge of town. They ducked into the room, looking for
