The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

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Boooooooo! Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa! There were 2 things going around in Harvals brain: one was to write a postcard to his friends, and another was to relax in his placid room. But getting shoved into the propulsion of inertia on a zip line was not on the list. But that presumably might be one thing he was going to do.
“Whoa we’re in Wyoming”, said my dad, Jack in a loud voice that even the car by us could probably hear.
Due to my dad being so loud, I woke up in the middle of a dream but couldn’t forget my dream since it was very terrifying. It was about me climbing up some 1000 ladders and swinging onto a terrifying zip line and falling. Phew! I hope that I do not need to, do that today, but you, never know, life is a surprise.
“How much more time,”
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After a mile of walking through the titanic trees we finally came to a halt in front of a tower looking like an archer tower.
“Yes, we’re going practice my archery”, he said as he jumped up and down like a clown.
“Calm down, we are not going to practice archery, we are going to go on a zip line.
“Wait, what did you say, are we going to zip line?” I questioned as I started to quiver.
“Yes, we’re going to zip line”, as a bright smile like the sun appeared on her face.
These words just felt like the world was going to end and everybody was going to die. DIE. DIE. DIE. These words kept on repeating in my brain as I started to feel as if I were going to faint. I slowly took a step forward with terror filled in my brain. As I took one step it felt as if an earthquake were happening. And then…………

My dad says, “You go first Harval”.
Seriously that TOTALLY felt as a river of hope covered me while I rolled my eyes. And I don’t know what happened to me but I climbed up the ladder and was the first one. Hahahahahahahahahahah! You might think I am joking but I seriously am NOT
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So I slowly grasped the sweaty handle bars of the zip line and the conductor tightly put the black belt on my waist. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I took one deep breath and started thinking about how much I had to do in life and if I should go on this risk taking ride.
Though, my fear was there, I thought about how this zip line wasn’t that long and could probably come back in 2 minutes, and I could always close my eyes which sort of helped to relieve my fears.. “I got be a doctor, and help my parents and maybe be an engineer, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”, I exclaimed.
I was off on the terrifying zip line on an average speed of 100 miles per hour through the lush trees. Whooooooooooooooo! Suddenly a change of felling happened like those that happen to Harry and Voldemort. I released my air to the wonderful air and twisting and turning. It felt like what the people that went to California in rush of gold felt when they got the gold. I was luxuriating in when my zip line felt like it started to slow down. Slow down. Slow down. STOP.
It created a screeching noise as it suddenly stopped. For a minute, I couldn’t process what was happening. Possibly it was a technical problem and it would be solved in no time.so I waited about 5 minutes but nothing happened. So then I started crying and screaming for help as if I were 2 year old toddler separated from their

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