The Day Vesuvius Spoke

The sky turned dark as a huge, black cloud rose into the air. Stones, hot ash, and poisonous gases fell down onto the city of Pompeii as the seemingly quiet Mt. Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 A.D. Soon the entire city and all of it’s people were buried under 20 feet of ash. Even though this ancient city lived over 2,000 years ago, their daily life has similarities to ours today. Daily life in Pompeii is similar to us in various ways.

Many people have experienced many tragic things but have you experienced a volcano erupting in your life? Has a friend or family member experienced it? Well two stories explain what it’s like to expeience a volcanon erupting.In this paper you will understand the setting (compare), point of view(contrast), and tone (compare)of two different stories “Dog of Pompeii” by Louis Untermeyer and “Pompeii” by Robert Silverburg.

It was a horrible sight. Clouds of smoke and ash filled the air above the city; half of Rome had already burnt down, and the fire was still going. The red glow looked fierce and deadly, for indeed it was. We knew there were many people trapped inside the city to fall as helpless victims to the fire, just like a prisoner in a flooding jail; with no way to escape. As I finish this diary entry, we are about to head off again, for the town of Anguillara, which is no more than twenty miles away. Our family is planning to find somewhere to stay there, possibly to live. However, one thing is certain; my life will not be the same ever

Several hours later it was breakfast time in The city of Pompeii. Vesuvius was close to eruption, there was about an hour for me to travel around. The towns of Pompeii had buildings and temples made out of stones and

“I heard a big bang, so I looked outside. There was black smoke all around us.”Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii, Italy suddenly exploded in the year 79 A.D. It caused many deaths, but is now a very historic site. Before Mount Vesuvius erupted, the people in Pompeii lived a similar life as we do now. Their values, work, and gadgets are similar to what we have now.

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius, the stratovolcano off the west coast of Italy, violently erupted, and destroyed the city of Pompeii. The city was quickly buried under layers of ash, suffocating and killing many of its citizens. The amount of ash that buried Pompeii kept the city well preserved, showing archeologists a perfect picture of past Roman life. Vesuvius is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the large populations and cities that reside around its slopes. It rests on a tectonic plate boundary where the African Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate (Bagley). As a stratovolcano, Vesuvius is known to have violent and explosive eruptions along with pyroclastic flows and raining ash. With

The author has described the journey of the father and the son through some devastated land which was totally ruined due to the destruction and ashes were scattered everywhere. The father and the son were in search of food and collected all the things which they thought would help them in one way or the other. The author has described the feelings of the little boy in this passage, as he was unable to digest the irony of the situation and was unable to feel calm and relaxed. The author has shown that he was clinging to his father, as if some beast would suddenly appear from somewhere and robe him of his last asset, his father. He has also described the pity of the human beings in the way that the father and son had to search the ashes, in order to find something valuable which could help him (McCarthy).

he city of Pompeii was recovering from an earthquake in 63 AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted killing nearly 2,000 people initially and nearly 10,000 more in the 25 hour darkness that ensured. The city was rebuilding and from the view of Pliny the Younger the plume of smoke looked like a Mediterranean pine tree that was miles high and wide Pliny’s uncle Pliny the Elder was killed by volcanic rock while trying to save people from Pompeii. The volcano is considered the most dangerous one in the world even though people still build around the volcano and unlike those that suffered Pompeii was never rebuilt it is a very big tourist attraction though. The buildings and items were preserved very well because of the ash and pumice.

The surrounding areas such as the river itself and the surrounding fertile volcanic soil were great appeals for the settlers since their main income and productions were olives and grapes. The first settlers didn’t know that where they settled had been site for ancient volcanic eruptions, so they assumed that now the mountain was safe. Ancient greek history tells the story of Hercules, a brave and strong semi god who fought the giants in that landscape. On the morning of 24th of August a tremendous bang signalled that the magma that had been building over the last thousand years had finally burst through the crater of Vesuvius. Fire and smoke bellowed from the volcano. At this point, it may have seemed that the mountain was doing nothing more than offering a harmless pyrotechnic display but at midday an even bigger explosion blew off the entire cone of Vesuvius and a massive mushroom cloud of pumice particles rose 27 miles (43 Km) into the sky. The power of the explosion has been calculated as 100,000 times greater than the nuclear bomb which devastated Hiroshima in 1945 CE. The ash that started to rain down on Pompeii was light in weight but the density was such that within minutes everything was covered in centimetres of it. People tried to flee the town or sought shelter where they could and those without shelter tried desperately to keep themselves above the shifting layers of volcanic

On the 24th of August 79 A.D Mount Vesuvius erupted. Ash and dust covered the the sky 19.2km high. All the ash covered the whole of Pompeii 5m deep.Then a combination of pumice and ash rolled down the mountain at 112 kph and covered pompeii. More than 2,000 people died. The eruption covered over 320 square kilometres. The ash that covered the town preserved pompeii and the people at their last moments.

It had swept through Knossos, smashing buildings and drowning people. The king’s fleet was mostly destroyed. At some places, the ground had split open. I watched in horror as the last ship was split in two by the tsunami. I sprinted up the hill and climbed it. For two days, I watched as my home was destroyed. Soon after the tsunami, the volcano nearby had erupted, blanketing the ground in ash. I was sitting alone, when my son emerged from the forest. “What’s that?” he said pointed at a Mycenaean ship. What are they doing here? I thought. “What should I do?” said my son. “Here, this will tell you what to do.” I handed him a circular tablet with Minoan symbols on it. I walked down to the ruined city. The Mycenaeans had killed any survivors. “Hey, what are you doing here” inquired a guard. I cut his head off with my sword. I hit another in the heart with a spear. Two guards came from behind and stabbed me in the back of the head with a spear. All went black. I’m dead I thought. Then I

Natural disasters are as the name suggests, disastrous. Some can erase entire cities and kill many. For example, volcanoes can bury cities in molten lava and many are lucky to escape one’s eruptions. Also, avalanches, normally caused by the weight of people in the mountains, are almost unsurvivable and reduce mountainous cities to rubble. The Eruption of MT. VESUVIUS illustrates how destructive and terrifying the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was to those who survived. The article details that the volcano was showing signs of eruptions, but the people of pompeii didn’t know what these signs meant. During the eruption, some people ran while some people stood behind, hoping this nightmare would end. Unfortunately, The majority of the people

It was just a normal day when it all happened. People were walking around shopping and doing their own thing. Children were playing and running around with their friends having a good time. You could almost say it was a perfect day… almost. About 17 years earlier, there was an earthquake that caused major damage to the area but nobody realized a worse disaster was on its way. The earthquake caused movement to the earth that started a flow of events that led to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

ver since the ancient Greeks settled in the area in the 8th century B.C., the region around mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples attracted wealthy vacationers who wanted to soak up the sun and beautiful scenery. By the time of the first century A.D., the town of Pompeii, located about five miles from the mountain, was a flourishing resort for Rome’s most distinguished citizens. Elegant houses and elaborate villas lined the paved the many streets. The biggest and most well-known eruption of the volcano known as Mt. Vesuvius happened 1,937 years ago. Mount Vesuvius laid waste to the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D.. The city was buried quickly by volcanic ash which made the city a well preserved snapshot of life in a Roman city. Pompeii was slowly recovering from a major earthquake that rocked the city in February of 62

Vesuvius was one of the greatest and most dangerous in history. Vesuvius is located in Italy in the city of Pompeii. Although it had erupted many times before in the past 2,000 years, the most deadly eruption was on August 24th, 79AD. The eruption started when the volcano ejected a large cloud of debris into the atmosphere. The debris rose 12 miles high, which added to the mountain’s height, is more than double the height of Mt. Everest. It was estimated to be the equivalent of 100,000 atom bombs. This debris was a searing combination of pumice and ash which equaled to over 1300 F. It quickly started racing down the mountain at 400 mph, destroying everything in its path, even people. The debris covered 200 square miles and was over 16 feet deep. The whole eruption lasted over 24 hours. Mt. Vesuvius had one of the greatest and most dangerous eruptions in history.