Zora Neale's The Wellington Avalanche

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The book Wellington Avalanche is about a girl named Janie who was on a train called Wellington. An avalanche destroyed the train. An avalanche destroyed the train. An avalanche is a big pile of snow that falls off a mountain at high speeds. Unfortunately, Jamie was the only survivor out of the 97 people on the train. Janie was very upset about the incident, especially since her family was on the same train as her and they weren’t as lucky as she was. She is such a strong person because after the incident she went to school like nothing happened. That day was a tragedy. It was devastating news for those around the world. When they first heard about the tragedy that happened in Washington,Washington, people were enraged because they didn't know that it was a natural disaster. …show more content…

and some parts of Canada. The Cascade Mountain Range is a long mountain range. The cascade runs for over 700 miles or 1,100 kilometers. The cascade mountains are quite long, which is also easily known for avalanches. The Wellington avalanche happened for two reasons. The harsh cold conditions The avalanche on the railroad. It was called the Wellington avalanche because the train was called Wellington, but the train was stopped because of the tragic incident. It was constantly brought for it to be remade for the next hundred years, then it was finally considered, but turned down nobody wanted the train remade and history struck again. The Wellington avalanche. was later found out in the newspaper that there were no survivors. No one actually knows if Jamie was on the Wellington avalanche or was a ghost in the afterlife. The girl, Jamie, later found out the truth about how bad the avalanche was. The worst train accident ever recorded in US avalanche history. The avalanche was changing the earth and helping humans adapt and change