Robbie Staffen Ms.Lehmann English 2-2A 4 October 2019 Stuck
The day was just the right temperature.The mountains around us were green and purple. The tops of the mountains were covered with that beautiful white snow.The trees were dead, like a heart after the death of a loved one.We were stuck. My dad, Jackup, Calup, Corben and I were trying to get my dad’s black Ford F-150 unstuck. We lifted the truck so the back tires were even with the ground.
It was a wonderful Saturday morning.The whole of camp Bradley staff had eaten a wonderful breakfast. My dad asked if anybody wanted to go for a ride with us. Jackup, Calup, and Corben said they wanted to. We got what we needed for the ride. We brought snacks with us, so we didn’t need to come back for lunch. We got in my dad’s black Ford F-150 and went out. We did donuts, went down random roads we came across, and were laughing and carrying on. We even went on a steep hill. Even with my dad on the brakes, we still went down it. We even tried to back up it. On the way down I heard the most girlish, high-pitched squeal I had ever heard. I turned to Corben. “Who screamed?” I asked. It turns out Calup was trying to hold the roof up.He looked like he had seen a ghost. We laughed at him, and we got back on the road. We went and found a road that looked like it might loop back around to where we were. The road started to lose its solidity and liquefy more and more. The truck started to try to slide off the road.
I asked my dad, “What are you doing?”
He said, “I am trying to find a solid place to pull off and turn around.” I said, “oh.” That is when the whole truck just dropped out of nowhere. We all started to decide what to do next. We got out and started looking to see how we were stuck. I asked my dad, “What do you want us to do?” He said, “Look for ways to get the water level down so we can see what we need to do.” I went and found a stick to dig in the mud to channelthe water out from under and in front of the wheels. We found out that we were highcentered and that we needed to dig underneath the center of the truck.We didn’t have any shovels, so we went and found a log sturdy enough to lift the back of the truck up enough to get the truck to move. We succeeded andgot the truck’s back tires up above the higher ground. We started looking for things to put under the wheels when a four-wheeler came and offered some assistance. My dad said, “We are from Camp Bradly.” They said, “we know where the camp is. Do you want us to take one of you to get help from the rest of the staff back at camp?” We said yes and told Jackup to go with them. While we waited for help, we rested.Calup and I started pushing trees down. The trees were dead and burnt, so they weren’t much of a challenge for us. My dad asked us to stop. We told him, “Yes sir.” By the time we got back to the truck,Jackup came back with a group to help get us unstuck. They brought a single shovel and tried to use my dad’s pulling rope,but the mud was too slippery, and the more we tried, the slicker and slimier it got. They decided to head back for more shovels and more people. When they got back, they brought the whole staff and about three vehicles full of shovels. We got the center undug and had ramps from a four-wheeler's trailer, and with a little bit of pulling and more digging, we were unstuck. When we got back,we were so muddy that we just hosed off and air dried until after dinner.We even hosed the truck off so we could see if there was any damage done. After the truck was housed off, we saw that there was no damage done to the truck. Narrative Reflection 1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific. I chose a story that happened to me, then wrote a outline for it, third I wrote it, and finally we revised it.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them? i wrote it after somthing that happened to me personnaly. It had to be a personall story.
3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part? I think the introducnon paragragh turned out realy well because it hooks the reader in by telling theme what happened to me but not telling how and why tell later in the story.