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제목 [라이팅] MTH #24 Earthquake in the Early Morning2019-03-16 09:13
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Jack and Annie must find four special kinds of writing for Morgan's library to help save Camelot. They already had made three of these, "Something to follow", "Something to send", and "Something to learn". They are about to set off to find the last one, "Something to lend" with research book, "SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1906"




The tree house had landed in a tree at the bottom of a hill by April 18, 1906. A church bell rang five times in the morning. San Francisco was one of the biggest and loveliest cities of the United States.


As they walked up the cobblestone street, out of the quiet came a deep rumbling noise and earth started shaking. All around them was rumbling, clanging, crashing, and breaking. It must have been an earthquake, called "The Great Shake".


Then the world grew still, and the rumbling stopped, but soon the deep rumbling came again. The terrible shaking started even harder than before. Up and down the street, bricks, glass, and concrete showered down.


Jack bounced against the hard cobblestones, and Annie fell into a huge crack in the street. Jack crawled in the direction of Annie's voice through thick haze of dust. He gathered an armload of bricks and handed them down to Annie, one by one. She stacked them on top of each other, stood on the stack, and slowly pulled herself up at last. They were covered with dirt, and their throat was clogged with dust.


Everyone must have been in shock. Just after the earthquake, broken chimneys, stoves, and lamps caused terrible fires. The research book said that the fires raged for three days, nearly destroying all of San Francisco.


The fires were starting. Annie thought she had to help others as was usual with her. She pointed to some men frantically dragging bags out of a building and piling them into a horse-drawn wagon. The men were trying to get the bank bags down to the harbor for saving from the fires. Asking to help them, they were done. Then the wagon took off.


Just then, a woman, newspaper reporter, asked them what the story was. And a photographer set his camera on the stand, and put his head under a black curtain and took a picture of the bank. Then, the reporter gave them a tip that thousands were crowding into the ferry building, and told them to go to Golden Gate Park instead.


Many people seemed to be fleeing their homes. The people were all going in different directions. As Jack looked for the Park, a man put the books into the back of a horse-drawn wagon. The man was moving all the rare books, which were old and fancy like treasures, to the Pavilion. Jack and Annie helped him, and then the horses started up the hill.


Jack opened the research book, and read that when the Pavilion building was caught in fire, all the books burned, but the building that originally held them did not burn at all. They both yelled and ran after the wagon, and the driver finally heard them and brought his wagon to a halt. Despite they said how to save his books from fire, he couldn't believe them. As the wagon bumped down the street over the rubble, Jack was close to tears and his voice trailed off.


That's when they saw a woman in bathrobe sitting on a crumpling stone wall and two boys in dusty, torn pajamas with both barefoot next to the woman. The younger one was watching the older boy write on a rectangular piece of wood with a chunk of coal. Jack and Annie lent their boots to boys, and boys hold out the piece of wood which was the only thing they could lend for thanks. Jack and Annie read a poem the brothers had written on it; "THERE IS NO WATER AND STILL LESS SOAP. WE HAVE NO CITY, BUT LOTS OF HOPE." It was the special writing "something to lend" they looked for.


Jack and Annie headed down the hillside. Everyone was trying to save what's important to them like librarian. On their way, a soldier shouted that people get off the street because they were setting off dynamite. If some buildings were destroyed, the sparks would not fly from one wooden roof to the next. But, the plan did not work.


After huge blast, dust and dirt flew everywhere. They was caked with dust from head to toe. Just then, the reporter and photographer was standing in front of them. Too stunned to say anything, Jack held up the sign with the poem about hope, and the photographer took a picture.


As Jack and Annie headed back down the hill, the city was being into the firestorm. They found the tree house which wouldn't leave without them. Before the tree house catched fire, they escaped San Francisco.




When they came back to their woods, Jack placed the sign from the boys on the floor, next to the list from the Civil War, the letter from the Revolutionary War, and the slate from the pioneer schoolhouse.


Suddenly, Morgan appeared with roar and took them to the her library in Camelot. The king had given up all hope for his kingdom, because he and his knights have been defeated. Jack and Annie showed the special writings to him. The king said, "I suppose if two ordinary kids can find courage and hope, then an ordinary king can find it, too." He was not an ordinary king, but he thought so. Then, he strode bravely out of Morgan's library for he would share the wisdom they had brought him. Finally, they had helped save Camelot.


Then they were home again, in the tree house, in Frog Creek, in the early morning.




In the tree house, a strong breeze blew open their research book. It showed a boy and a girl covered with dirt, and the boy held a sign. Jack and Annie read the caption that after the earthquake, while fires raged through the city, two brave children tried to give hope to others.






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