Imagine you are looking out your window. White puffy snow starts piling up. How unexpected, you think as it nears two feet deep. Standing outside is impossible, you are blinded by white and bitter cold. This was what it was like for the people living in the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard of 1888. They portrayed the people in the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard as courageous and resourceful in the horrible storm. Courage was one of the many qualities people living through the Schoolchildren’s blizzard portrayed. For example, Havlor, from the poem, said that they couldn’t see their hand at the end of their arm when they went outside, but they had to go out anyway to look for their son. This proves that even if they were scared, they had to do it to survive, which shows courage. Also, Barney, from the article, walked more than a mile to his children's school to give them food and blankets, and then walked it back. When he was walking he had to grip into fence posts or else he couldn’t see. Barney, Havlor and many others demonstrated courage to keep their families safe in the Schoolchildren’s blizzard. …show more content…
Another quality the people in the Schoolchildren's blizzard portrayed was resourcefulness.
One example of resourcefulness from the poem was when someone tied a note to the pony’s halter to tell the family there boy was safe at school. In the article, Mae Hunt had to take her class to a farmhouse across the schoolyard, but couldn’t make it all the way there. She had her kids dig out a small snow cave under a straw pile to stay warm for the night. These are both times when they couldn’t do what they would normally do, so they had to improvise. In the end, their resourcefulness helped them stay alive in the Schoolchildren’s
blizzard. From the poem and the article, you can infer that the Schoolchildren’s blizzard was a horrible storm. In a regular storm, you would not be blinded by the snow, and it certainly couldn’t freeze you or your horse’s eyes. However, these, along with buried houses, were some of the many harsh tragedies caused by the storm. Also, 400 people died, 235 of which were children. Finally, when all this snow melted, it caused enormous floods that ruined houses spared by the snow. So it’s safe to say, the Schoolchildren’s blizzard was a horrible storm.
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