Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words – no more, no less – based on the prompt: The Eruption!
How will you interpret this prompt? It is linked to our work in class, studying the sulphur miners of Indonesia, and also our dance project where we have been moving like volcanoes!
The Eruption
The orange lava erupted from the top of the volcano. It splashed down from the sides in thin drizzles, and hit the floor with overwhelming power. The miners were running. Their faces were struck with fear. “It’s erupting!”, said one of the miners. They were screaming and scrabbling at the sides of the mountainous rock. They all dropped their baskets filled with their bounty. Pure sulphur. One of the miners were suddenly enveloped in the lapping lava, which took no hostages. Suddenly, the lava exploded into action. No one was found.
I live in a volcano you see. It is very comfy living in a volcano, it’s always the right not too hot but not too cold! One day I wanted to see the world out side a volcano so I took the lift to the very top. When I saw the light gleaming in I couldn’t wait! What if they don’t like me? What if they run away? When I got out people weren’t scared of me, they actually loved me! Soon I became the king of the world – that was when I realised that I, George the cat, was dreaming!
In the volcano where people of Indonesian work.
They risk their lives, but it’s the only way to earn money.
Night and day up and down the volcano, is there another way?
The Eruption
In the night the lava is so pretty and bright.
With its blue and purple ways it will light up the days
The Eruption
Lava everywhere, the toxic smoke fills the air, is the job worth it?
The lava going through the craters, one day it will all explode.
Sulphur miners digging for their fortune, will they make it or will they suffer?
The Big Eruption
The Eruption
Bang, crash. It had started and my family were in danger. While I ran as fast as a cheetah, my body started to rumble and I knew my house was on fire. It was too late; my family was dead, I was alone. The volcano was worrying us and we had to move before it erupted so I went out to find a new house and I was making my way back, but it had already started. Now I would have to find money, a wife and happiness. Why had we lived next to the volcano? Why? Why?
The Eruption
Volcanoes occur because our planet Earth’s surface is made up of seventeen tectonic plates which sit on a bed of magma. Some volcanos are very dangerous and can kill with the gasses, ashes and lava that they produce. For example, there is a volcano that spews out sulphur gasses which is not only deadly in its own right but large eruptions can block out the sun and cause major famines.
Eruptions happen when the Earth’s tectonic plates collide or separate but tend not to occur if the tectonic plates slide past each other and do a drive by.
The Eruption
From deep below me there was a rumbling. That was getting stronger and stronger. And stronger. In ten minutes it was shaking buildings down.
BANG!
It had almost defeated the whole of eighteenth-century London. Until us. We stamped and jumped and roared and… I don’t know what we did. Looking back on it now, most people would say we did well. Including King George himself. Except us, because we didn’t do anything. We couldn’t have anyway. The whole of London was wrecked and had to be rebuilt. And so much was done. Bigger and better houses. Happiness restored.
KIT’S DIARY
Wednesday 3rd April:
I have been sent here to find out what has really been happening in this volcano. Nothing much it seems, just people getting sulphur. Is this just a waste of time?
Thursday 4th April:
I was wrong! Today we uncovered a brilliant blue lake. It was spectacular! Mind you, it’s exceedingly hot.
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THE TIMES
On Friday 5th April a group of scientists investigating our most famous volcano went missing without trace.One of our journalists found a diary with the name Kit inside. Local detectives have no clues as to their whereabouts.
The Eruption
As Nadeem woke up, her mum told her to get some milk. She wrapped her shawl around her neck and went to the back yard to milk the goats which were huddled together.
Then it happened. The Eruption!
It shook the ground like a stampede of horses making a huge crack in the middle of the yard getting larger heading to Nadeem’s house. Nadeem jumped over the crack but it was to wide for her so she jumped over the fence through the alleyway to her house, now unrecognizable, a pile of wood and mud rubble. Her mum was dead.
The day my life has changed forever
It was a humid day in December. The volcano had lay dormant for many decades. No-one expected the eruption. I can remember it like was only yesterday. People were screaming. I was petrified, I felt like I was going to die. Pieces of rock came down from the sky wrecking buildings. Blood red lava came bubbling down the rock mountain destroying everything in its path. Everybody left. Some people collected belongings. Others ran away as fast as they could. After the evacuation the village was left dead silent. One day I will return.
The Eruption
It wasn’t supposed to erupt for another six days. We were doing experiments inside Mount Etna to see if you could live there. We had constructed a fire proof building to live in for a few months. The last recordings from the helmet cameras of the people who went into the crater showed creatures in the shadows that killed them. The footage scared us. There are only three of us left now. We await rescue but we doubt it will come because we can hear them bumping on the walls, getting ever closer to breaking in. Now the volcano awakes.
Volcanoes erupt and bubble, everyone knows that, but what if they didn’t? What if they just sat there doing nothing? I wonder, would life change if there was no sulphur in volcanoes, would people die because they didn’t have money to buy food? I once knew a girl that lived with her dad next to a volcano, she said it was always noisy and smelly, but she also said it was helpful to people in Java. Her dad mined the sulphur, it’s used to make sugar white. So, the next time you eat a sweet, please think about her Dad.
It rumbled and the people stumbled. It shook the ground and the horrible sound flew through the air.
The molten rock gave everyone a shock. The tectonic plates tore before the devastated people. They awaited their rescue. No one came and their brains filled with shame.
They ran on their own, they thought their fate was sown.
The lava turned to stone. Everyone felt so alone. They were surrounded by dark, and then, a spark. Finally someone had come to rescue them. They waves their arms in the air as the cold night filled with the whirring of helicopter blades.
The Eruption
One day a Volcano erupted. There were animals escaping from their habitat. The cat,who had no legs,got a piggy back from it’s mother. As night fell, the lava started to become blue the animals got addicted to the colour. Slowly, i followed them until i reached that it was still fire but in another colour. My kids were shouting my name “Daddy come back daddy”. We jump in the car and went to the hotel. Then i parked my car in the wrong place and got taken we couldn’t get to the Gandhi airport . what will happen next …………