"The day the mountain Blew Apart"

With our Language through literature teacher we read a story called “The day the mountain blew apart” on the book “arriving before i start”. The story talks about the eruption of the Mount St Helen’s that it is on Washington. We learn that people that was present at that moment were VERY lucky because the eruption passed on a Sunday, and nobody was on activity. If this happened on a Monday, instead of having fifty seven people dead, there would have been a lot more.

A historical Narrative is a story of a historical event.The people and the places are true, but it is written as a story. Biographies are usually Historical Narrative.

Jerry Wheeler went to see Mount St Helen’s that is on Washington Cascade Mountain the 18 of may of 1980. David Johnston was there too, but closer to the Mountain. But, unexpectedly, magma started pushing the walls of the mountain and they get out. Unfortunately David was very closed to the Mountain and he died. But Jerry survived.

Fifty seven people died and the forest was totally destroyed. A village that was near the Mountain, so all the ash that came out from the mountain went directly to the village. All the village was covered by ash like a ghost city. Anyone can go out because they canno’t breathe and they canno’t see. Everything was grey and black. Many species of the place died. All the schools, works, shops and houses were closed.

Coming back to life, gophers, that were under the ground, went out and worked like plows bringing the rich soil to the surface and Elk Bones help flowers to grow. But the forest will take many years to recover.

My opinion is that this is a catastrophe. But everything will recover quickly because many soils stayed there. Maybe the volcano erupted one time but no one saw it, so maybe that could be the last time the volcano erupted.

Photos:

This picture it is before the volcano eruption.

When the volcano was erupting

This picture it is after the volcano eruption.

Before.                             After.