Description Of David's Life

Improved Essays
It’s the year 2050, all of the glaciers in the world disappear. Planet Earth loses its winter season and the new generation of kids won 't experience snow. Everyday is like summer and regular day has sixteen hours of sunlight and 8 hours of night time. People everyday die of heat stroke.
David is a average 14 year old boy. He likes to visit his grandpa to listen to his stories about snow and he always thought how it will feel like. As usual he arrived to his high school and his first class of the day was science. He loved his science class because of his teacher Earl. Earl wasn’t a regular teacher because he worked in Area 51 but was fired because he was selling classified documents. David always thought his teacher was a bit strange. Earl
…show more content…
They make copies to distribute it around the world. The invention is placed in each continent so all kids can experience snow. The scientist predict the machine will make it snow for about a week.
On December they simultaneously start the machines. After a few hours David looks out the window and the sky is filled with milky white clouds. A few more hours pass and giant snowflakes fall to the ground and eventually everything outside is covered by a white thick sheet of snow. David goes outside and plays with his friends from school. When he comes back inside he is freezing. His whole body is numb, and for David it was strange for him to get cold. He drinks hot chocolate with his friends and goes to sleep.
It 's the next day and Davis is prepared to go to school but his mom gets a call that there will be no school for a whole week. David gets up and takes a glance out of his bedroom window. He sees empty roads piled with tons of snow and covering cars. At this point he is frightened. He calls Earl what is going on, but his reply was the same. Fortunately the scientist created a remote that can deactivate every machine. The scientist press it. Hours pass and nothing seems to change. The snowflakes seem to get bigger everytime David takes a look
…show more content…
It is a lonely planet. No one to talk to except his parents. Everyday his dad brings home firewood to heat up his home but even the heat of the fire can 't stop the struggle of the cold ice and snow. Everyday David 's mom brings canned food from the houses she has raided. She does her best to feed her family.
David is in his bedroom and all of the sudden he hears his parents arguing. David 's house trembles. He looks outside and sees his dad walking through the snow. David rushes downstairs and takes a look at her mom. She is weeping, tears running down her cheeks. David asks her mom where dad left, but her mom doesn’t say a word. Minutes pass and everything settled down. The fire had gone out and house had no heat. David tells his mom to help him find firewood.
They walk outside. They can 't see anything except for the footsteps his dad left. They follow the footsteps to find David 's dad. They walk for hours, and each step they take is like stepping in nails. Out of nowhere the footsteps end. David knows this is the end. He looks around to find a house nearby, but nothing is visible. So they follow their own footsteps to head back home. David 's feet are killing him. He takes off his shoes and socks. Both of his feet have turned blue and there was nothing he could do about it. It was the end. Him and his mom laid in the snow looking at the sky. They took nap that would never

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Human Nature through Ron Hansen “Wickedness” In the winter of 1888, in a small town in Nebraska, a massive and unexpected storm paralyzed the community without warning. Humans, animals, agricultural life forms experienced massive destruction. Ron Hansen, in his short story called “Wickedness,” describes the brutality of the storm, and it’s affect on individual lives.…

    • 824 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He then finds out that his father is dying from cancer and goes to visit him in the hospital on his deathbed. David’s dream was to live on the Russian River with his father, so feeling a bit lost Dave visits his grandmother to hopefully find some answers to his questions about his past. He finds out that the way his grandmother was to his mother as well as to others including David, is the reason she turned into a terrible wretch. He visits his brother as well during his trip in Salt Lake City (where his family lives). He returns to his base in Florida after…

    • 1076 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Isabel Wilkerson Blizzard

    • 155 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The following article entitled “The Blizzard of ‘93 Seeking to Save Cities and People; Michigan Students, Caught in Appalachian Snow, Learn Lesson in Survival” was initially published in March 16, 1993, written by Isabel Wilkerson. Initially the article tells of a school venturing on their annual expedition to the mountains of North Carolina, thereby establishing a strong character-building maturity, and influence them for life. Despite their aspirations nature acquired different ambition through constructing a blizzard that meddled with the many students and guardians, culminating the atmosphere that enabled many of the vulnerable students who developed hypothermia. Despite this horrendous event it could have been prevented if those students…

    • 155 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tanner and Jezzer are at Tanners for Christmas. They are best friends and so are their family’s. They both watch the news and find out that Christmas is going to be canceled. They decide to drive to the North Pole in Tanners Audi R8 Rose Gold. A super car that is very good for driving in the snow.…

    • 290 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In New Hope, Nebraska, in late May, Emma Sanders, a widowed grandmother, who is disconnected with her family, finds a small boy, about five years old, sitting alone at the park. In the small town of New Hope, everyone knows each other, no one knows who this child was. Emma takes the young boy into her care, and discovers that he is mute. Due to Emma’s old age, she allows another family in the church, Brian and Amy, custody of the child. This family names the mute child, Davey.…

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    It was a cold winter night in Illinois, everyone was in their homes warm and safe. The meteorologist kept accurate predictions of the weather for their whole career. One day on the weekend the meteorologist notices a strange reading in his forecast. He picks up a strange cloud group coming towards his city. A Blizzard with high winds of over 100 mph, hail, frozen rain, and it dropped to negative 10 degrees.…

    • 2537 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Rachel Lemke Memoir

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Rachel Lemke worked as a waitress in the basement lounge of the Blackhawk Hotel. The lounge had grown increasingly popular because of its famous clientele and allegedly black market dealings. Although the lounge was a part of the hotel, when patrons visited, they felt as if they were in another world. Rachel thrived as a waitress at the lounge. She began making more money that she would have finishing her college degree and used this fact as ammo against her disapproving parents.…

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Sal’s father acts as if everything is normal, but Sal knows he is in pain. Her father shows his pain by crying and Sal knows this, even though he is a great father. One of the reasons Sal’s mom left was because Sal’s father is such a good man. Sal is an amazing girl. She is a good student, a great friend, a loving daughter and granddaughter.…

    • 1277 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Michael Northrop's fiction novel Trapped is a 200 page book which describes the life being stuck at school in a snow storm. The narrator Scotty Weems takes place to what he saw in that day during the blizzared and while they got trapped in Tattawa High School. Starting off with the day they were in school, Scotty had a basketball game and his biggest fear was that game canceling. His friends Pete, and Jason were with him waiting for parwnt pick up, which they actualy get trapped inside the school for the week, not to mention that the blizzaered lasted for about a week. There were 7 kids in that school, and two of them caught the 3 boys’ eyes, Krysta and Julie.…

    • 259 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Note and notice signposts 1.tough questions-"why, but why would I bless him (Wiesel 67)? " 2. Contrast and contradict- stops talking about the Holocaust and talks about the future which is happy. ( Wiesel 53) 3. Again and again- they give warnings about what's going to happen ( Wiesel 27)".…

    • 941 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bringing Up Baby Themes

    • 1376 Words
    • 6 Pages

    In the final scene, Susan climbs on top of the dinosaur, destroying David’s life work. This action, which would have previously also tore down David’s entire world, does not have the same affect on him.…

    • 1376 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Personal Narrative Rough Draft. Chapter 1 My hands were numb with my feet dipping into the freezing water. It watched under me.…

    • 1293 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What happens when snow days go awry? David Sedaris, a popular comedian, radio contributor, and satirical writer, who frequently contributes to The New Yorker sought to share his personal story of such an instance. Sedaris has written many works all varying in subject matter, including novels Holidays on Ice and Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, as well as several essays including Naked and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. " Let it Snow" by David Sedaris is a narrative that was published in The New York Times about Sedaris' recollection of being locked out of his house by his mother during a snow day in Sedaris' adolescence.…

    • 957 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    (62)Fire and Ice. Haines pond. A large pond, two acres. Saturday, April 14, 1962, opening day of trout fishing season. I was running.…

    • 1600 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She crosses the tile floor, hazel eyes fixated on the bottom drawer to her antique desk, late forties or early fifties. What lies in the bottom drawer is a device so powerful—no—so dangerous, that it had to be hidden once it reach completion. It's been many years since she dared to gaze upon the device in fear of someone with nefarious intentions stumbles upon its dwelling place. Falling to her knees, she ignores the burning of her nose as she stirs up dust and cobwebs, and reaches for the desk handle, inching it open just enough for her to see the black metallic gleam on the small, circular device. Her finger grazes the top of the device, silently noting how cold it is, but she tears her eyes away a moment—just to catch a glimmer of the outside world through the long over arching window in her bedroom— to watch the falling white snowflakes coat the world in a blanket of perfection,…

    • 800 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics