We were coming closer and closer to the pit, from which an infernal heat was rising. Twenty more steps. If I was going to kill myself, this was the time. Our column had only 15 steps to go. I bit my lips so that my father would not hear my teeth shattering."
I drove around the track, parked my car and leaned against the hood. Others had stopped also but the feeling wasn't the same: maybe seemed like a noble, powerful encounter-heart stuck in your throat, leaving your gut wrenching and rumbling along with the engines of the plane that had take off prior, but only it was much more. The triple C-17 perched in formation, ready-as was I, and hundreds of other men-boys- ready to discard their lives into the darkness. There
We soon arrived at the island. It wasn’t too big of an island, probably 9 and a half miles big. We got out of the Jeeps and had to be very careful with what we did. Two teams were missing on this island, scout team and one recovery. We didn’t know what was there, so we had to be careful.
“The truck went faster and faster across the dry lake bed.” (sachar, 148) Stanley went the pain of digging holes for months, until one day. He decided he couldn’t take it anymore.
Waterfalls started to form and fall, and soon enough, we were soaked. Melissa and I started to rush down, scared, as our dads and my sister continued to walk. “Dad!” I yelled, “hurry up!” They just kept walking.
As it approaches, as if it were going downhill, I brace my arms for the impact and my impeding death. At the last second, the truck vanishing and through a mirage comes a figure that pushes me into the hole. The fall wasn’t long, but the landing was rough. I could feel the pain of something jagged as well as hear the crunch of bones and metal. As I try to recover from my fall, I look to my right and see Alex’s class ring on the hand of a detached limb.
Dear mom and dad, I didn’t know being in the trenches was going to be very difficult. At first I thought it was going to be fun, I was singing on a train because I thought it was going to be a wonderful and exciting experience of my life. At first I was laughing, shouting, and singing. As a matter of fact, I thought it wouldn’t take long at all I thought it was only going to take a month, I felt that it was going to be like a camping trip.
I was in 4th grade going to 5th grade I was a big kid now. I could do whatever dad could do. If he could ride a four wheeler in the forest I could to. My Dad gave the ok to this idea, and my Mom, well she finally went along with a nervous look on her face.
The book I got from my grandpa When I was like 7 my grandpa brought a book to me from his trip to detroit. It was a book about cars. It was like my favorite book for a long time because I liked cars a lot when I was growing up. The book was about a bunch of different chevrolet cars and who made them and designed them and stuff like that. Thats why I was so interested in the book.
Thirty years ago, I witnessed a micro-aggression by my grandma Correll. One of my friends had her hands full when we got off the bus so I offered to help. She lived on the same street as my grandma. My friend Tara was of Italian descent.
It all happened so quickly. I was just driving into Clermont. And it happened. Another car collided with mine. There I was, realizing the trouble I had gotten in, when all of a sudden I was pained and bleeding.
With the truck 's fifth-wheel, and I don 't think I need to explain what a fifth-wheel is, behind the kingpin, he truck could not pull back out a try to connect to the trailer again. Why?, because triler 's kingpin prevented it. What had to be done was to raise the trailer, or lower the tractor. The biggest problem was that the co-driver was under the trailer as their truck was backing under it, trying crank the trailer up higher manually. If he would have succeeded at the wrong time, my fear was, as I watched, the truck going back at the wrong time and
Back in 8th Grade, there is a car contest in my physics class. Which is to built a car that uses the balloon as the engine, and see who’s car can travel farthest distance. Like usual, I am so excited when I heard the contest, I want to win! Once I heard the contest, i begin to draw all my ideas I had to build the car. My first idea is to use big plastic plates to build the wheels.
“Where are you from?” The words “I’m from Brooklyn” explode from my mouth like a firecracker. I walk differently after saying it. My steps are a bit harder; chest pushes more forward, head held higher in the air. There’s a certain pride that consumes me whenever someone asks me about my hometown.
Everything was silent aside from the muffled crackling radio and I could finally see my surroundings. Still bright out, a bit overcast with the sun occasionally poking through. Trees towered over the vehicle from both sides, looking like they came from acres of forest. The road was two lanes but stretching wide across and longer than your eyes could see, never ending into the abyss of forestland.
