Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words exactly (no more, no less) based on the prompt:
…the little ships…
This is inspired by our work learning about the evacuation of Dunkirk, but you might want to interpret it differently!
Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words exactly (no more, no less) based on the prompt:
…the little ships…
This is inspired by our work learning about the evacuation of Dunkirk, but you might want to interpret it differently!
Withdrawal orders had just come through,
Where we were bound for no one knew,
As time passed by we heard the talk,
Of our destination being the beach at Dunkirk.
For days and nights on the country wide,
The troops on foot fought side by side,
While on roads in one unending line,
The convoy’s race against Father Time.
Hedges and roadside we know it’s true,
Were strewn with guns and vehicles too,
But no one seemed to think of loss or gain,
Their thoughts were one, to live and fight again.
The thought of loved ones there at home,
Gave British men no want to roam.
I was walking next to the sea when I heard a swooshing sound. I thought it was just the wind so I carried on. But the swooshing got louder and louder until it felt like it was right in front of me. Then I noticed two tiny boats in the distance coming nearer and nearer. I called out to them. It was a mistake. They came rushing over. It horrified me to realise they were pirates. One held a gun up at me and said,
“Take us to your family!”
“Never!” I replied in an ill confident way.
“Then die!”
Over the bloodstained beach of Dunkirk, the heavy German bomber and fighter planes shot down their targets; English troops running to boats, row boats trying to get to the shore to save the soldiers and the English destroyers. The steel bullets that can fire a mile away were narrowly missing me, and soldiers all around were falling to the ground choking on their own blood. The small battered boat I was about to jump into exploded violently in front of my eyes. Then I felt something smash into my skull, and then everything went a blinding white. I’d been shot.
The second little tender rowed by, up came our list to go. My fists clenched on to the oar handles, sweat drowned my face, one bullet, a single 4 inch bullet would make us drown that’s if I get there that is. All my life I’ve been waiting to serve the heroic army now is my chance, I hope the blood and toil I put into training to be a sailor has been enough. One hour at sea and nothing to see apart from misty clouds,
“It sure is boring to be in the middle of nowhere by yourself.”
An enormous shape appeared as I got closer, it looked like a docking yard exactly the same as the one I came from, it was, what a fool I am.
At the Dunkirk evacuation, also known as Operation Dynamo, lots of allied men were cornered at Dunkirk and were saved from the approaching German army. This was done by lots of ships, all shapes and sizes, going across the channel to rescue the men. If you were a English citizen and had a boat, any boat even a small rowing boat, you could of been called and asked to sail, row or motor across the channel yourself and go and let some soldiers come aboard then go back. This was very dangerous since there were German gunners firing bullets rapidly.
There was a loud bang as the gun shot the massive ball of flame that ended another person’s life. One extra lifeless body crumpled to the floor. This is the D-Day landings and this is just the beginning. I ran along the shore, past my falling comrades, past the broken jeeps and snapped guns. The little ships were in sight! Then, out of the dark sky, I heard it. The Nazi bomber flying towards me! I dashed through the beach and dropped my back-pack before jumping to one of the ships. I thought I’d survived before I felt the bullet.
On the way to the ship I felt pain for the first time. So what happened that night is we were all trying to get to sleep, then we heard that wailing sound of one of those doodle bugs. The ones that kill lots of people. We all rushed out, in the distance you could see it. So while that was happening we broke all our weapons and killed all the animals, it was so sad and why we did that is so the Germans don’t get all the stuff. By the time we got to the boat, I was hit!
The order just came through; the siege of France has just begun, the captain told the black op unit. The objective: to sneak behind the enemy lines and cause as much havoc and destruction as possible, so the boats can get across the channel and rescue the troops stuck on the beach. The helicopters came and sent us in just behind the beaches of Dunkirk. I could see a thousand ships over the horizon; big ships and little ships. I could also see 300,000 allied troops on the beach. I owe this to you I thought as I jumped down.
I looked out of my window, the devastating German troops were at it again. It felt like we’ve been knocked down by cruelty and disappointment together as a team. As I saw from a far distance, I saw the little ships that floated by to help the injured British troops. The sky looked like earth had been beaten by darkness. The dark, shameful shades of grey and black appeared right before my eyes. Heaps and heaps of men all waiting to get recused and return to safety, but I don’t think the world is very safe anymore. More and more boats come along but I don’t think all the men well get saved. God help us!
As all the little ships went to the harbour to collect all the brave soldiers stuck in Dunkirk. It was a hard choice to make, to take a small boat bigger risk over all but smaller at that point and less people were taking. Then I ran to a small boat it was a smaller chance but it was a bigger other people I jumped into the boat and gran a oar I was looking for another man but there was not another man. he had been killed by a bomb.
It is a normal Friday, when Junior, the little boat, is at the harbour waiting for his usual fishing trip out on the bay with his owner, Captain Sam. Captain Sam is very reliant on his trusty boat. He takes it out every day and sometimes scratches Junior with his bad sailing. Junior gets annoyed but fights on and never sinks. One day Junior decided that he is being taken for granted by Sam because he is getting teased by all the other boats. One of the big boats mocked him by saying to his friends “Look at Junior’s scratched coat!”. The next day when Sam didn’t come, Junior drowned himself.