Mrs Geraghty's Class
Building The Wall by Darragh Fahey
While I was passing up some bricks, I heard
a faint thump coming from the other side of the wall. Then another. It was
louder. Some people were screaming. "The Mongols are invading!" cried
a peasant working on the higher part of the wall. When I came down, I saw some
bodies lying around, blood spewing from their deep wounds. My grandfather and I
hid while away while my father and thousands of different soldiers held of the
Mongol invasion. Soon the invasion was over. There were lots of casualties. But
Hongwu said once the Great Wall is finished, there would be no more
casualties
Accident by David O'Reilly
I was one day working on the wall when I
heard a big BANG!!!! I was carrying some bricks so I put them down & ran
towards the scene. It was very hard to see because smoke was everywhere. I
started waving my hands so the smoke would clear off. Then to my horror, there
were dead bodies nearly everywhere. I started to have a look to see if
anyone was around. I seen a moving hand in the rubble. I ran over and tried to
pull off as much rock as I could but it was to heavy. I called for help and
then a pair of men came over and helped me pull him out. After that I looked
around for evidence of how the wall fell. It could have been the Mongels a
loose brick just about anything. Its a mystery that might never be
solved.
Accident by Thomas Nyland
There I was, standing at the northern end
of the wall. Then it happened. 100 feet away, the water that Qin Dynasty used
in building the wall burst it's barriers. Flying bricks, water, several planks
of wood and boulders scattered everywhere. My right leg throbbed in pain.
A long, narrow wooden splinter pierced my skin. Ignoring it, I began stumbling
through a grey cloud of dust, looking for my fellow builders. I heard a voice
squealing "Help! Please, help!"
Frantically, I edged toward the pleading,
weak voice. Somehow, I recognized the voice. It was my grandfather! I heaved
the large, heavy rocks from my path and helped him up. He mumbled that my dad
was working alongside him, so he must have been somewhere nearby.
After a long forty-five minutes, we
recovered a number of elderly men and some of my classmates. The evening sky
was gradually getting darker, and I was worried. We still had not located my
dear father. But then, under a huge rock, my grandfather spotted a bloody hand
and a severed foot beside it. He called the rest of us over and we all
helped in lifting the rock. We heaved and pulled until the boulder-like rock
was lifted aside. I was a little startled at first, but then I realized it was
true. Helplessly lying there, was my father, motionless. He had passed
away.........
Mysterious Animal by Ben McHale.
I
looked from behind the tree and there it was, something I never seen before. I
was astonished because it looked around
10 feet high and its bright orange eyes were staring at me. I saw it chomping
at a dead deer that was now torn to pieces. It didn’t look so friendly to me. I
could hear my heart beating out of my chest. It felt like half an hour to me
but it was actually only 2 minutes. It took two large strides forward and I
took a few steps back. I reached out for my camera and before I knew it, it was
gone. That’s when I realised the chase was on. I saw it going past the hill of
ice. I sprinted over and saw some meat on the floor. I ran on. I found a tree
that was knocked down yet there was no people out here so it had to be a wild
animal. I heard there was something called the yeti. I was not sure if it
exists but if its 10 feet tall and has bright orange eyes I’ve seen it. I kept
searching until I heard a screeching noise like eeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh!!! I really
panicked. Just then I realized with all that chasing I was lost! I followed my
foot steps back to my jeep, but what I saw was my jeep tipped over and
everything torn to pieces. I was worried now because I had nothing left and
somewhere out there was a beast that seemed to be after
me.
Accident by Jack McDonald
As I stumbled along the rocky muddy track
with my grandfather and my father along side, I wished that the wall could
just build itself and I was in bed like my brothers, mother and my grandmother
but I knew that that would never happen. It suddenly dawned upon me that
more and more people were joining the group from all angles which was causing
lots of people to fall off the edge but I had grown used to this in the small
length of time I had been working on the wall. There was silence for a
long period of time and all you could hear was people's feet scraping of the
stones, and people heaving themselves up the steep cliff. Then a
tall man a bit behind us piped up" The Mongols will never get us when
the wall is finished" he said with a smirk on his face and once he had
uttered the Mongols they jumped out from what seemed like nowhere throwing
anything they had our way. There was blood spraying everywhere I
was horrified. My father grabbled me and my grandfather and pulled us
into a cave. We waited in silence for about 20 minutes not bearing to
even breath, and when we did breath it felt like we were shouting, all we
could hear was screams of terror. After about 2 hours my grandfather uttered
the words I think they are gone now, and sure enough we took a peak outside and
all we could see were dead bodies lying everywhere and to our amazement
there was a huge hole in the wall. Then we made our way back to the cottage
hoping the rest of our family were alright.
Accident by Declan Mortimer
Bang,bang,bang I heard. I thought to myself ha,ha,ha
imagine if that was the Mongals, but then a weird looking man broke through the
wall and angrily said, ''attack'.' Then a tribe of Mongolians were chasing me,
I ran as fast as I could but that wasn't enough. I looked back and I saw the
look on there faces, they wanted to kill. I thought to myself could this be the
end of my life?
Accident by Stephen Lammond
It was raining for several days, and the path was wet and
muddy. I was very nervous because on one side, there was a steep cliff.
Everyone is working hard and helping each other because we want to get
the wall built.
Suddenly, there were cries for help echoing from the
wall. I ran over to see what was the fuss. Then I saw the Mongols
attacking. I turned in the opposite direction and ran for my life,
forgetting the cliff that was there.
Before I knew it, I was clinging to the edge. My
heart was thumping and I was terrified. I screamed for help. I felt
alone and scared. Then I saw a man with a big scar, it was my dad! He held his hand out and I reached for it. Before I knew it I was
up off the edge, and on solid ground.
The Incident by Oisin Quinn
I carried the rocks up to the wall. Then I heard it
"OOkaa OOka Ayyyyy." That means surrender or die.I then realised it
was the Mongols but we did not give up. We sent thirty five soldiers down and
had thirty five more at the ready. It was a brutel battle many of there men
were killed and wounded and many of our men were killed and wounded. Finally
the Mongols retreated the smell of blood pierced the air. We sent men down to
retreive the bodies of the hurt and the dead and bring them back onto the wall.
And from then on we were always ready for an attack.
Accident by Eoin Canning
It rained every day and every night for the last six
weeks. The water was rising and the men were scared."Please Hongwu, we
need to leave before the water rises even more!
"It will rise no more, now get back to work".
As I looked around I heard screams for help."HELP!HELP!".As I
realized my life was in danger, the scaffolding I was standing on collapsed. I
clung to the wall, holding on with all my might. I called for help, but I
realized.
my co-workers had been washed away in the flood. I held
on for at least 10 minutes, and as I was about to loose my grip my best friend
Sanga threw a rope from the top of the wall. He pulled me up to safety and in
doing so saved my life. I will never forget that day for the rest of my life
and I will always be in Sanga's debt. Altogether 38 people lost their lives in
the flood that day.
Accident by Oran Groarke.
It was another tiring working day. While I was carrying that
big pile of bricks over to the wall I heard a cracking noise. I rushed over to
see a huge pile of smoke blocking the way. I rushed through all the rubble to
find one of my school friends Ki. I asked him fearfully what had happened. He
said a peasant worker was on a scaffold and tripped on a brick and fell off.
Tragically he passed away. This was a huge shock to Hongwu and all of the other
peasants because the man who passed away was a peasant too. How is Hongwu going
to take the bad news because that man was his grandad!
Accident by
Ben McHale.
When I was
taking a heavy load of bricks, I heard a bang. It seemed that it was coming
from the left hand side. I ran over as fast as I could and when I got there I
saw a huge hole in the new part of the wall. I was terrified as anybody would
be when they heard a loud bang. Someone told me that the Mongolians shot 50 rocks
from catapults into the new part of the wall that hadn’t settled in. Others
said that someone accidentally set off the fireworks for the celebrations when
we were finished the wall. To me it was a mystery because I wasn’t there to see
that tremendous bang. All I could think about was if anyone had survived that
bang. I searched and searched until I heard a call. It sounded like it came
from a few metres away I ran over and saw one single hand from under the rubble
I called for help and soon five more men came over. I asked them to help me
remove the rocks to get the poor man out, after we got him out he told us that
he had a crushed tibia. We carried him to the stretcher and bought him to the
carriage. When everyone was ok we went back to rebuilding that part of the
wall.
Accident by Alastair Hill.
I heard a loud, crashing sound before slowly turning round.
When I look behind me I witnessed horrible, grey dust blast everywhere. To my
surprise, horror and misery, part of the wall had collapsed. I ran over and
looked through the rubble. It was horrible. There was blood splatter and brain
matter everywhere. There were hats, shoes and bodies on the broken bricks. I
was frightened and sad. I worried so much about my father and grandfather. Were
they buried beneath the rubble of grey bricks? There was only one way to find out.
I quickly ran through the huge, deep crowd looking to see if I could spot my
father or grandfather. I took one last look before I was about to give up when
I saw my father. I ran directly towards him at tremendous speed. As I got
closer to him I saw my grandfather was with him. Hongwu had ordered all of us
to remove all the broken bricks, bodies and clothing. I hated this job but it
had to be done. I removed broken bricks and torn clothing. I avoided dead
bodies if I could. Soon I was done removing bricks and had to go back to
building the wall.
Accident by Darragh Reilly.
I was putting the last bricks on the wall when I heard a
thumping sound. I looked behind me and saw the Mongals.
They had massive swords, dangerous flamethrowers and rock hard shields. They
were running towards the wall. There was only one thing we could do and that
was get the fireworks that we had just invented. So we lit the fireworks and
BOOM!!!! It made a racket of a noise and scared the crap out of the Mongals.
The great wall was never to be harmed again.
Accident by Michael Waldron.
I was walking along the road going to get some bricks to
build the wall, when I heard a high pitched scream coming from the top of the
mountains. I rushed up quickly to see what was going on. When I got up I saw my
own granddad. He was hanging off a cliff after being blown away by a strong
wind. He was on the verge of dying. I had to save him. I went over to do
something but it was too late. He was gone. But we have to get over it and
move on, after all people die every day, but they’re always with us in our
heart. I went down the rocky mountain to tell everyone. They were as devastated
as I was. "We have to get over it and move on", I told them, that's
what granddad would have wanted. We all realized that there was no time
for idling around, we had to build the wall for our own sake.
Accident by Patrick Loftus
I was carrying some heavy bricks up the great wall when suddenly, out of
nowhere, a freak accident occurred. A man was carrying bricks to the edge of
the wall passing them to another man when he just slipped of the edge of the
wall. This was a very shocking tragedy for me, Emperor Hongwu and my fellow
co-workers because one of our best workers had just died. I felt absolutely
terrible for the man’s family and it must have also been difficult for Emperor
Hongwu to break the news to his parents. But unfortunately, we could not stand
around and mourn the man all day, we had to get back to work with heavy hearts.
There was a job to be done.
Accident by Dylan Howley.
I was building when I saw an arrow fly at wicked speed and
hit one of the workers. There was blood squirting everywhere. Then I saw who it
was, it was the Mongolians attacking with catapults and rocks aiming at the
wall. Luckily enough their accuracy wasn't that great. We were all sad that a
worker had died and how were we going to tell his family. The next day they
attacked again with better accuracy and hit the wall I heard creeks in the
wall. When I looked down I saw a big crack and overnight it turned into a big
hole. Hongwu was really, really angry when he saw what they did so his army
attacked back viciously with axes, swords and catapults. Well they knew we were
going to attack and they had all sorts of weapons. We started war straight away
but they were very sneaky because they had people attacking from ground and on
high buildings. After war all you could see was puddles of blood and dead
bodies everywhere and burnt down buildings. I looked at the wall and saw an
even bigger hole and you wouldn't really know there was half a wall there
before it. Well after the years of work it has gone to waste because of our
enemies who we were keeping away from us with the wall. In the end we defeated
them.
Accident by
Peter Basquille.
I was
building the wall on the edge of a steep and scary drop down. My Dad told me not to look down as he knew I
was afraid of heights. As I was reaching
to put another brick in the wall I looked over and saw another boy in and
around my age. The boy was leaning over
too much and I thought it was going to be the end of him. I noticed he was secured to his Dad because
he had a thick rope around his waist. I
heard a high pitched scream, the boy had slipped. His Dad was taken with him.
Suddenly we all stopped our jobs and quickly went to help the two in danger.
That was two of our best workers gone, this meant it was going to take us
longer to build the wall.
Denis, on the other
hand, decided to go with the flow and wrote slightly more than one paragraph..in fact he couldn't stop....maybe he'll be writing a book next!!!
Incident by Denis
Vajenine
One day, I was working on the wall that we were building
when SUDDENLY I heard a voice from the side of the cliff shouting “HELP!!!!! HELP!!!!!!”
I froze right on the spot which had been so relaxing because of the heavy,
stacked bricks. The voice stopped and right that second I had seen the person
who was shouting fall off the side of the cliff because a Mongol had shot him
with a bow and arrow. I was so sad that I had covered my eyes and started crying
as tears trickled down my face right that instant.
After I had stopped crying, I spotted a whole group of
around ten Mongols up on the ridge where the wall was being built. I dropped
the wagon stacked full of bricks and ran down to the village unnoticeably to
tell the people of the village to get ready, the Mongols were coming.
We got ready for the Mongols as they approached us. I got up
on the roof of my semi-detached house and had a much clearer view of the
raiders. But the bad thing was that the part of the wall that we had built had
collapsed as it was so new. I shouted “nooooo” all the hard work we had put
into it, the muscle it took, the days it had wasted, the deaths it had caused!
Most importantly the Mongols were the ones to blame for several of us dying
that day. Thankfully I saw some workers come down, including my dad and
granddad. I came down from the roof and hugged them both.
I was so angry that I could tear the Mongols arms and legs
off if I could. They came down from the cliff and started shooting arrows at
us. I went home and grabbed my sling shot, some fireworks that I had recently
received from my dad for my birthday and a pair of sticks I had rubbed with
oil. I went outside and lit a fire with the pair of sticks, put the fire on the
fireworks and quickly launched it into the air with my slingshot. Scared of the
fireworks exploding, Mongolians ran as fast as they could.
My whole village cheered for me until they saw the broken
wall that had collapsed. It took us only two years to rebuild it because the
wall had the pieces scattered right in front of it. Since there were no bricks
to carry up the cliff I was put on passing duty. It involved passing the bricks
up for the next person who had to glue all of them onto the wall. Life was hard,
but not as hard as it used to be pulling the bricks up the cliff, what a hard
life that was! After the wall was rebuilt I got a soldier's medal for my
bravery, that made me so proud!
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