Do you think you can survive the San Francisco Earthquakes of 1906.
Well the main character of I survived the San Francisco Earthquakes of 1906 is Leo he is a boy who lives in a foster home with his friend Morris and had his Uncle, Leo´s his dad gave him a gold nugget and that nugget gets him into a lot of trouble, He works as a newspaper boy and sells them, all that he can tink about is eating because he does not eat a lot of food because he is an orphan kid and no one feeds him, that is why he work as an newpaper boy. He is always thinking about his grandpa and what he would do in his situations that he gets in.
The first conflict was in the morning, he just finished selling all of his papers. When two big fellas jumped him in an alleyway. The two fellas were named Flech and Wilkie, they did not come to steal his money, they came to steal his gold nugget.
The second conflict was while they were trying to steal his gold nugget back an earthquake happens and the building collapse while they were in there luckily they got out before it fell on top of them but wilkie couldn't make it out but he got up like a zombie coming out from a grave. He was asking if Flech got out Morris and Leo said he did but he was nowhere to be seen so they all thought they left him for dead and then
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Wilkie was mad. Wilkie knew were Flech would go they started to head into town and they saw Flech and this is the third conflict.
As they saw Flech, Morris ran after him and part of a building that was on fire fell behind him, Wilkie and Leo jumped through the fire with a wet blanket and made it through to the other side and found Morris stuck in a manhole. Wilkie got him out and they all went after Flech they went into a building and saw someone on the floor and it was Flech with all the money Wilkie and him got, the reason he was on the floor was because he had a broken leg. Wilkie carried Flech out and when they got out he left him on the curb for police to take care of him and take him to the
hospital. Wilkie gave back Leo´s gold nugget and gave the rest of the money to a woman who´s husband died. After all of that they went to a train station were soldiers were handing out food and water. The resolution was Leo sold his gold nugget to get train tickets for all three of them Morris,Wilkie,and himself.Leo and Morris went to his cousin who would take both of them in and Wilkie would be sent to the coach who offered him a football career. The real question is can you survive the earthquakes of 1906?!
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