Amazing Kid
I am going to write about a five year old boy,
his mother, and 28 other people who lived in Cuba and wanted to come to
America where they could be free.
They all got on a ship and left for Florida.
On the way, there was a big storm and the ship sunk. Everybody drowned,
except the boy, Elian Gonzalez, age 5, a woman named Arianne Horta, age
22, and a man named Nivaldo Fernandez Ferra, age 33. The three of
them were left floating on inner tubes in the high waved Atlantic Ocean.
Arianne and Nivaldo washed up onto Key Biscayne's shore. Luckily
Elian was picked up by a fisherman a few days later. After the fisherman
picked Elian up in his boat, they both left for Florida.
This kid is truly amazing, because when his
mother drowned, he stayed alive in the Atlantic Ocean with two other people,
but also part of the time alone. The whole time he was very hungry,
the sun was beating hot, but the water was freezing cold. He couldn't
sleep either because he might let go of the inner tube and drown.
He was very frightened and he didn't know what to do. So he just
held on tight to the inner tube in the burning hot sun and the freezing
cold water. There was no way to block the sun and get out of the
freezing cold water without falling off the inner tube, drowning and without
having the waves topple him over. Elian was alone until the fisherman
came and picked Elian up.
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