Friday 16 May 2014

the dead of night

April 14, 1912- night


If you had not known what was going on, nor had you had seen the iceberg, and you were simply strolling up on deck, it was a funny sight you would see, Groggy passengers stumbling up on deck in the dead of night, with a lifebelt on over their pajamas. You might wonder what was going, or why they were up wearing lifebelts at this late hour, and if you asked them what was going on, they would certainly tell you what they were told. then you would wonder, if the ship really was sinking, why weren't more oddly dressed peole up on deck?

If you were you had been sleeping happily in a first class stateroom, warm and cozy, and a obnoxious steward knocked on your door, and told you to get your lifebelt on and get up on deck, you might wonder what brought on this silly frenzy of waking up first class passengers in the dead of night. And once the steward left you would turn out that light, and and cozy up again underneath the covers. Later you would wonder why you did not listen to that steward.

If you were a third class passenger,and you thought you had heard a sound you might turn on the light, then get out of bed. then you would scream, looking down at the icy water that had began to fill your cozy little cabin in the dead of night. Then you might wonder how this could have happened to an amazing ship, an incredible ship like the titanic, an  unsinkable ship. An unsinkable ship that was no longer the titanic.

If you were a Steward, who had been woken up by your boss in the dead of night, and told that the unsinkable ship was sinking, and that you were to go to your cabins and wake up passengers and tell them to put their lifebelts on and get up in on deck as afst as you can, then you kight wonder what was to happen to you. You might be scared, scared out of your witts, becuase then you would realize, realize what was really happening; the titanic was going to sink.

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