Personal Narrative

Once while my dad, my sister, and I were salmon fishing, my sister, Molly, had a seal take her salmon from her pole. My dad was so mad because my sister was using the good pole with about $15 worth of gear on it that my dad didn’t want to lose. I have never seen a seal come that close to our boat in my life and I doubt my dad has either; this was a moment I won’t soon forget…

My sister was about to catch her very first salmon. She was still reeling it in when probably three feet from the boat a huge Harbor Seal came right up and grabbed the fish in its mouth.

My dad said, “Daniel quick grab the pole and reel as fast as you can!” So I did as I was told and my dad drove toward where the line was in the water. My sister was very mad because it took her fish, and she was screaming, “Go get it, go get it!” my dad said he was trying to stay above the seal so it would have to let go of the salmon to come up for air. On the line I could feel the seal coming up. When we saw it come up to breathe it still had the salmon in its mouth, but it was only up for about five seconds before it went down again.

After it surfaced about three more times, the seal released the fish and my dad grabbed the line and quickly pulled it into the boat. It wasn’t a very big fish but we kept it anyway. The seal had bitten a chunk out of the salmon’s throat and pulled the guts out. When Molly saw it she said, “Poor fishy.” My sister loves smoked salmon, so when we got home she asked my dad to smoke it for her. He did and Molly was very proud with her first salmon.

My sister has caught a lot more salmon now that she has spent the summer going salmon fishing with my dad and me. She has also had one of the biggest dogfish my dad has ever seen chase after her salmon. So I guess you could say she has caught a lot of different things while salmon fishing.

Rear Window Essay

The movie Rear Window was about a murder mystery that a man named, Jeff saw happening through his back window. This was interesting because Jeff had a broken leg and couldn’t get out of his apartment. I liked the way Alfred Hitchcock made this film exciting with the camera never leaving Jeff’s apartment. There are three ways I can describe how this film was intriguing.

I thought he made this film exciting because the man in the apartment had a broken leg and couldn’t leave his apartment. I thought this was interesting because the man was looking out of his window from being bored. He noticed one of his neighbors doing things that seemed suspicious to him. So he had to investigate, by calling his friends and having them help him.

It turned out that the man had actually murdered his wife, and Jeff was right about the whole thing. He had a friend that was a cop and he didn’t believe that it was a murder but at the end he was wrong. I thought this was interesting because a guy with a broken leg was looking out his window. He saw suspicious things like the man bringing knives and saws inside. He also saw him with a big crate that got taken off somewhere, and the man was getting packed to move. He eventually found out he had murdered his wife.

Another reason that I thought this was an interesting film was because at the end of the movie the man who had committed the murder found out that Jeff was watching him. The man later went over to Jeff’s apartment and tried to kill Jeff. The man had Jeff hanging out of the window and a bunch of people saw him and ran over in time to catch him before he fell to the ground. Later the man was arrested because he murdered his wife.

My favorite part of this movie was when Jeff’s girlfriend went into the man’s house to investigate. When the man came back he found the woman in his house and was very mad. That was my favorite part because I didn’t know if she was going to be killed or not, and it was exciting. I want to watch more Alfred Hitchcock films because I think he is a good director. I think his other films would be filled with action and suspense just like this one was. These are the reasons I thought this was an interesting film.

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