A Narrative Essay About A Hero's Journey

It was a cold late night on the RMS Titanic sailing through the calm seas of the North Atlantic where it will be the setting most terrifying moment of my life. It was April 14th 1912 at 11:40 PM, me and my family were sleeping in my 3rd class room in cabin F53, when we heard the strike, it sounded like metal scraping against the ground at a high speed. That’s when we felt an earthquake like feeling the shook us all out of our beds, already ma is freaking out,
“Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!” she kept repeating in the same terrified voice.
“Honey! It’s ok remember this ship is unsinkable.” my dad responded in a chill tone.
“But the ship been struck! What if she goes down?!” my mom questioned.
“Honey it’s unsinkable, the crew has it all under

control.” dad responded.
“Your right darling.” my mom responded.
But right now me and my brother William are freaking out on our bunks.

“What if she goes down for real, Joey?” questioned William.
“She won’t William, just go back to bed.” I responded in a crabby way.
Just as we drifted off we heard banging outside of my door, already my brother crawls up into a ball and into the corner, as my dad open the door a steuerwert was outside and throw life jackets.
“She’s going down, get your kids and take them to the upper deck immediately.” he told us in Army general tone. My dad was frozen in fear and then when the steuerwert went away to the next room he said,
“Everyone to the upper decks.”
“But darling maybe it’s just a…” responded my mom.
“JUST GET TO THE UPPER DECKS!” my dad had order us.
Then my dad through the life jackets and screamed at us to put them on, we did what we were told. Then, we did what we were told and many of the other passengers, some were crying and others were holding onto each other in fear. As we made our way to the upper deck we’ve been told that only women and children were aloud on the lifeboats and that frighten me and my whole family, we started to cry as my dad had hugged us tight. As the 1st and 2nd class passengers were being boarded onto the lifeboats and lowered into the icy waters of the

Atlantic.
As we were trying to find a lifeboat that we can get on, we realized that we were stuck on the ship as long with many other 3rd class passengers, stranded on a sinking boat like helpless little ants. We heard the music that was “supposed” to help calm people down, but it had only worked a little on the passengers. As they were playing their soft tunes they were interrupted by my dad,
“EVERYONE! TO THE BACK OF THE SHIP!” my dad yelled.
We took off towards the back of the ship, I can hear the ship groaning as it was going down into the Atlantic. As we were running towards the back I can see people jumping off the sides and into the black icy ocean, I was crying seeing all of these helpless people just jumping off to either their deaths or a slim chance of survival. When we finally made it to the back of the ship, we could hear the ship groaning even louder, then all of a sudden. WHOOOSH! The power went out. I hear a lot more screaming and sobbing now then before, this ship was now turning into a luxury ocean liner, into a huge warzone on the Atlantic. More chaos broke out on the ship, total darkness, dark as a black piece of paper. Everyone was running and crying as the Titanic kept going down.
It wasn’t the worst thing that had happened, I still can remember the noises the Titanic made when it was making its way down to the ocean. CREEEEEEAK, FWOSH! The Titanic broke in two, the stern of the ship was coming down as fast as a rocket. SPLASH! The stern of the Titanic made when it hit the water, people are now screaming like it was a zombie apocalypse. As the ship broke in two the bottom of the Titanic was still connected, causing the stern to rise straight as an arrow out of the water, when the weight of the bow went under. My family was hanging onto a railing on the starboard side of the ship,
“MOMMY! Are we gonna die?” William asked with tears in his eyes.
“I don’t know William.” my mom replied with a terrified sound.
At this moment I also think to myself, what’s the water temperature gonna feel like? Then all of sudden, I see this man fall from the railing and into the water,
“SHEEERRRIIIIK!” is all you can hear, and then I thought to myself, What if this happens to me? As soon after I finished my thought the stern is now sinking into the water with more dangling people on the rails and more screams as they fall into the icy Atlantic. As we almost entered the water, my dad screamed,
“GUYS! I love you no matter what, and hopefully we can survive and live a normal in New York!”
After he finished his statement we all nodded in agreement and then we were all finally in the icy water. At first I screamed underwater in pain. Then broke the surface, then my mom, my brother, and my dad.
“WE NEED TO FIND A PIECE OF WRECKAGE TO STAY AFLOAT ON!” I screamed at my family.
“YES JOEY! SO WE DON’T DIE OF HYPOTHERMIA!” my dad screamed back.
Hypothermia! I thought, I forgot about it and it kills you. I swim around in panic, then what do I see, a couple of chairs floating in the water, a life saver. I thought
“GUYS THERE'S A COUPLE OF FLOATING CHAIRS OVER THERE!” I scream.
My family looks and starts swimming over towards the chairs, and then I realize it, there are only three chairs. My mind starts racing, someone in my family was going to die. I start to cry again as I was swimming. As soon as we got to the chairs, my family also realizes it too.
“Someone has to stay in the water.” my mom says under her cold breath.
“I will.” said my dad.
“NO DAD!” I scream.
“I have to Joey, but me and my mother can try to share a chair.”
But it doesn’t work, the chair keeps tipping into the water, and me and William, start to sob worrying about our dad.
“Honey, get on the chair.” my dad says.
“NO, I'M NOT LEAVING YOU OUT HERE JUST TO DIE!” my mom screams with tears coming out of her eyes.
“It’s the only way honey, I will try to find something else to float one.” then swims away in the dark black ocean.
“NOOOOOO!” we all scream with tears falling down like a waterfall.
A couple of hours later we hear screaming in distance, it looked like a lifeboat and had a lights shining everywhere. We start screaming at the lifeboat like lions when their hungry. We were put on lifeboat 14 along with some other survivors, shivering in the cold air and water. Then I realized something,
“What about dad?” I asked.
“Oh no.” Ma says with scared look.
“WE NEED TO FIND MY HUSBAND!” she screams at the officer.
“We try to. But most likely he died of hypothermia.” he responds
“No. He can’t be dead.”
We look around the dark waters for dad but eventually we found him. Dead. We start to cry again at the sight of our dead father. When the officer saw what we were crying about took off and told us that he was sorry for your loss. At sunrise I saw the smoke of another ship and immediately had notified the crew by yelling,
“WERE SAVED!”
Everyone looked at the ship and started cheering. We climbed aboard the RMS Carpathia with some sobs and tears as we continued our route to New York. Once in New York my mom bought an apartment for us, then she met another man and eventually got married to him. He had a job with the press and we even ended up moving out our apartment and into his luxury condo in Manhattan. Where me and William grew up and had our own children and keep passing down our terrifying story aboard the sunken RMS Titanic.