Poem Analysis: The Journey !

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The Journey!

¨Annie please go get mom, we are about to leave soon!¨ Dad says. Annie runs her little 8 year old body as fast as she can. She can´t believe that she is going to go to South America to visit her aunt. ¨Mom! We are ready to leave! Mom gets up from her chair, and walks down with her daughter to the dock. ¨Are we ready?¨ Mom asks. ¨Yes, hop on in.¨ Dad says. Annie doesn´t wait one second, she just hops right in as her dad told her. They both get into sailboat with Annie, and her dad steers his way out of shore and into what is going to be a 4 week trip.
Continuing, two weeks passed, the ride felt like it was forever for Annie, she just couldn't wait to see her aunt, and what South America was like. Then all of a sudden they crashed
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Annie did not answer, she had learned to live with him and how strict he was. After she got the fish she climbed up her ladder into her tree house. In her spare time she liked to make up stories in her brain and tell them again and again and again, until she gets tired of saying that story and she makes up another one. After she is done telling her story Annie carves into the wood and it says 365 days for how long she has been stranded. She climbs down the ladder and starts crying. She doesn't why but she is thinking about her mom now, Annie takes a run to clear her head. Banngggg! She was hurt, but how? She was running into something invisible! She looks at it really closely, And she figures out it is a flying machine, that you can't …show more content…
¨What¨! Dad says, ¨I found a flying machine!¨ Dad's face lights up for the first time in a year. ¨Show me¨! Dad says. Annie grabs his arm and sprints to it. ¨Here it is¨! Annie says. ¨I think you are imagining things because I don't think I see anything¨. As he starts to walk away, she grabs his arm again and tells him that it is invisible. He turns around and looks at it closely, after a minute he has a big grin, ¨let's do this!¨”he says and hops in the flying machine. ¨Well are you coming?¨ Dad asks, ¨Yeah.¨ I say. I hop in the flying machine, and am coming up with bad things that might happen, and good things, but too late

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