A Story Of My Life : A Short Story

At that time, I felt like a rookie sky diver preparing for his first plunge. The cabin door opens to reveal the extreme distance of his fall, which leads to either sheer excitement or eventual death. The naivete that sheltered his fear disappears at the sudden reality of the moment. By then, of course, it is much too late to turn back. The very thought that this was his idea seems absurd to him, and he feels like the only person on the face of the planet. And so he closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and

My heart pounded brutally in my chest as my feet left the ground. Once I started elevating into the air my body was yanked along with the wind. As I was getting higher, I slowly saw everything become smaller. All of the buildings below me became dollhouse size. I watched the huts turn into tiny drink umbrellas. I looked around to witness the incredible view of the enormous mountains in the distance. The mountains became more clear as I was soaring closer to them. I could now observe the entire city in one glance. I could feel the cold breeze brushing up against my skin. Wanting to stay in that one moment, I forgot about everything and just focused on flying. It was almost time to land, I had to listen for my whistle. Once the screeching whistle blew I knew I had to pull the red cord. I reached back to grab the cord and tugged on it. I was slowly starting to drift back onto the shore. Once my feet touched the hot sand, I felt a wave of relief go over me. My adrenaline finally stopped pumping and I was able to be breathe

Now, with the ground racing toward him, Sal tugged desperately at the chute’s ripcord. Nothing. At 10,000 feet, he’d given the thumbs-up to Matt and flung himself out into the darkening sky. Despite the countless number of jumps he’d done, those first few seconds were always filled with terror before quickly giving away to the elation and awe at feeling the force of gravity work upon

Have you ever been on a plane? Imagine crashing because the pilot had a heart attack and having to survive by yourself for a months. These things happen in the three time newbery honor author, Gary Paulsen’s book “Hatchet”. A kid named Brian has been in the same plane crash as described. He is thirteen years old and has survived for 54 days, alone in the Canadian Wilderness.

His 18 years of life crossed his eyes instantly. He started to become nervous and insecure gradually as the airplane was elevating in the air, and he was afraid that the airplane might drop. He could hear the wheels rolling on the ground loudly and it was unpleasant to him. Fernando’s body was reacting. He felt compressed in his chest that his lung was too large for his chest, so he had trouble of breathing, and his heart was pounding rapidly against his rib cage. During the trip, the airplane met a turbulence, so he began to feel more anxious and fearful. He felt that everything in his body wanted to leave him. His blood pressure increased, so he became agitated. Soon he started to feel dizzy and light headed. He was about to lose control of his body; therefore, he grabbed the seat handles tightly and pressed his feet intensely against the floor to prevent his body from shaking. Meanwhile, he was being extremely quiet, and all he heard were the turbulence, his heart beat and heavy breathing. As Fernando described, the ocean view out of the window was beautiful, yet he could not enjoy looking at it at all.

The asthmatic instantly realizes the adults on the plane died, leaving them on a stranded island, while the other boys immediately accept their fates by imprudently developing an anarchic state (14).

The old man quickly realized that he was a fake version of his kind. The old man swung at him to see if he would react and see if he can go fast in time and try to evade it. Jacob failed and got hit by the old man's blade by a bit and cut his hand open. The old man told him that he was too slow and that he can do it faster. As Jacob argued with him saying why he did that, the man got bandages and covered him up.

For a minute it seemed like things had gone back to normal on the jet. People were shocked, a few reached into the aisle or around their feet to recover cell phones, and other possessions.Up near the galley between economy and business classes, an Asian doctor crouched over the steward who’d hit the ceiling and cricked her neck. But as air rushed noisily past the fuselage, the passengers were unsettled by intermittent shudders ripping through the airframe. The pilots couldn’t devote their time to staring out the side of the aircraft, so the stewards passed through the plane asking passengers in the window seats to look outside for anything unusual. De'aaron watched as his grandmother touched a stewardess, who stopped walking and turned

Now after the boys find out where the cockpit was they now need to get supplies for food and shelter. Jack takes leadership of hunting and the hunters to get food for the rest of the group. Ralph and the other kids will help get branches and other things for building little shelters for the kids to stay in so they don’t get cold and die. This shows how both boys can take control of each other and help out the

“I have heard that story before,” told Mark. “You walked into the same monster as the one in the rumor, and it killed you, the end”. Jacob then stormed out of the tent, back to his house in the city.

Back at school, Jack and I were friends. We had every class together and were always dealing with the same things at the same time. We were always together, but that seemed to end when we crashed into the island. The smell of smoke arose into the air making it difficult to breath. Carefully making my way out from underneath all the debris I stood up. Walking a couple paces from the plane i turned and looked at what used to be a plane. Looking around at the crash sight I searched for my friends; including Jack and Nathan. After making a couple of rounds around the plane to see if anyone needed help, I wandered around to search for survivors. After finding a group of two boys, named Piggy and Ralph, I wondered if this was all that made it. A

The icy wind ripped across his face as the ground shook beneath him. When the ground beneath him lurched, he groped for the guide rope on the edge of the rope bridge. Once he grasped onto it for dear life, he felt the bridge give a violent heave and the rope went slack. As he plummeted into the gaping chasm, he realized what must have happened, but he didn’t understand why. The bridge had been cut.

The younger boys had not done much while on the island so Ralph directed them to slowly start forming housing as well as scavenging for fruit to eat. Piggy comes into conflict with Jack when he realized a ship had past but did not stop mostly likely because Jack and the hunters had not kept the fire going. Jack becomes enraged and punches piggy, breaking his glasses while chanting “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in”. As the story goes on, two boys named Sam and Eric come across a pilot who had parachuted and got stuck in a tree, but mistook him for the beast that some of the other boys believed in.

The voice in my head, normally so calm and controlled, was screaming at me to run. That was exactly what was going through my five year old mind when I walked around the hallway corner to see my mother being beat to her death by my biological father, Brax Magnus. As I tried so hard to stay and defend my mom, I could not help but panic and so I ran. I ran so far until I seen a small gas station. I went inside to find a phone, but realized I did not know who to call. The cashier, seeing that I was crying and looked panic, walked over to me.

Jonathan’s pursuit of the perfect flight took everything from him. He lost his health, his family, his friends, and even his home. Although he struggled at times