Stand By Me Analysis

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Stand by me We all arrived at the bridge, there was a moment of silence. We stared at the decrepit bridge and the surroundings. The bridge was about 200 meters long, underneath the bridge was a river and the water looked deep, reflecting the colours of the sky. Between the railways, there were wooden planks had exposed spaces between them; a wrong step, and your whole leg could go through the space between the planks. There was a long moment of silence then Teddy said with confidence “ well am going to cross the bridge, am not going to waste three hours taking the other route when we can cross the bridge and be at our destination in 15 mins”. I looked at Chris then Vern waiting on them to make the next move. Chris replied “I agree, …show more content…

Teddy and Chris took the lead there were at least 50 meters or even more between us. Everytime Vern looked back at me I could see the terror in his face, his face was pale, looked as if his had been ill for days. Everytime his arm went on one of the planks he took a pause, cautiously looking at the next plank and testing if it was stable. I was still watching Vern but my mind elsewhere, thinking about what we would do if the train comes… At this point I was getting very frustrated at Vern, he was crawling so slowly, if he was to be walking at this point we could have been right behind Chris and Teddy. Vern took a quick pause, then rushed his arm between the wooden planks where the gaps were. I looked from the side to see what he was trying to stretch for, it was his yellow comb. It was moving from side to side, the wind wasn’t strong but it was strong enough to make us tilt from side to side. Vern looked up at me and said “I lost the comb”. I said “forget it Vern, we haven’t got the time for it”. I bent down one last time to feel the metal bars, I felt hotter than the last time I checked also I felt a bit of a vibration, but I took it as my

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