Kayla Warburton, 10 years old, wrote the following story for her grade four class. Jane and her mother are flying to Florida when their plane meets a severe thunderstorm. A remarkable composition and fun to read.
The sound of thunder shattered through the plane followed by
the sound of cracking metal. All the windows shattered as the hurricane moved
in. Suitcases flying, pets panicking and
people screaming.
It all started when Jane’s mother got a job at Sea World, and
they had to move to Florida Florida
Jane and her mother recognized it as her flight so they
agreed to keep their seatbelts on just in case.
Boarding the plane had always been the best part for
Jane. Walking through that long tube
thing always felt so mystical. She also liked closing door to her seat so that
it felt like she was trapped in a plane seat. This time she closed it AND
locked it because the man sitting across from her looked kind of creepy. (Did I
mention that Jane wasn’t too smart?)
Jane put her Chihuahua
Jane was terrified what she was flying into such great
danger and no one seemed to care. Her mother
told her not to be alarmed because the man in the airport and told them that
thunder cloud was harmless and the newspaper always exaggerates. Jane agreed
and turned on the tiny TV set in front of her. She tuned into her favourite
cartoon while the plane took off. The plane engines whirled, putted and roared
before finally lifting off the ground.
About half way thorough the flight, they heard the
loudspeaker boom over them. “Ladies and
gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts for we will be flying through a storm
cloud in about five minutes. Jane broke
into a nervous sweat. She couldn’t believe that the captain was actually okay
with flying through a tropical THUNDERSTORM.
As Jane counted down until the dreaded moment when the
thundercloud swallowed them whole, she grew more and more panicked that they
would never get back out once they were in.
Once Jane realized that there were only thirty seconds until the cloud
arrived. She started spazzing in her head. “Hjbxfuzwebrb,” her brain said. All
of a sudden the lights went out. Jane
spazzed triple time. She had never felt so petrified in her life.
All of a sudden Jane felt her sense of gravity tilt forward
until she was standing on the back of the seat in front of her. But she wasn’t
on that seat for long before slamming into the ceiling and then crashing back
into her seat. It only took a matter of seconds before she realized that the
plane….was falling.
Jane looked over at her mother who was fumbling with her
seatbelt. She started to panic when she
realized that her mother was stuck in her seat because the seatbelt would not
come undone. The parachutes for
evacuation were just down the aisle. Jane frantically pressed the button on her seatbelt but it wouldn’t
unclick. The hundred thousand feet turned to one hundred thousand, then twenty
thousand and kept descending until they were only one thousand feet above the
ground. Jane finally made the seatbelt
unclick but the captain said that they were too close to land for anyone to
evacuate. Jane and her mother watched in
horror as the plane rocketed toward the ground at two thousand miles per hour. The problem was, the fatal impact into the
ground never happened.
Jane opened her eyes and found herself in her room. She was
relieved to find that is was all a dream.
When she got up, she realized she was floating. She panicked and floated over to the widow.
When she looked down, she was on a cloud. And beneath that cloud…was a plane wreck.
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