The Day the Mountain Blew Apart

1. With Vicky Gregov we worked in class about the story "The Day the Mountain Blew Apart", inspired on Mount St. Helen, which erupted on Mat 18th, 1980.
2. This story is an Historical Narrative. An historical narrative is a story of a historical event. The people and the places are true, but it is written as a story. An example of historical narratives might be biographies.
3.                                                                      Introduction
• Jerry Wheeler and David Johnston were in the mountain when it erupted.
• Jerry survived and David died at the moment.
• Magma had been rising inside the mountain, making a lot of pressure until it erupted.
• It had the force of forty tons of dynamite.
Consequences
• All the place was destroyed and devastated.
• 57 people died.
• Everything was covered with ashes, smoke and fire.
• The forest, plants and animals disappeared and died.
• "Ghost Town": everyone stayed inside their houses| and didn't go out because they couldn't breathe.
Coming back to life
• Gophers helped because they brought the rich soil up to the surface, which helped new plants to grow.
• Elk bones also helped new plants to grow because of the nutrients they had.
• It will take more than a hundred years to have everything before it was before the eruption.       
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Mount St Helen before the eruption.

Mount St. Helen's crater.

Mount St. Helen, before and after the eruption.

5. I think this story doesn't look like a story, but it is a very good story and I really liked it and I learnt a lot about volcanoes.