The Plastic Mountain

In writing we have been working on The Plastic Mountain. We had to make sure that we were writing in present tense, extended our sentences and used senses to describe: sights, sounds, smells, feelings, sensations. Here is my writing.

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    The Plastic Mountain 




                                                THE PLASTIC MOUNTAIN!
 Another day at work and I still don’t have enough moola to live a happy life.  “Ow!” Crunch! I just tripped over on a mountain of plastic bottles.  I sit down  on some bottles  and start cutting the labels off the vivid  green plastic bottles with my pocket knife.  As I cut the labels off and put the bottles in a  wooden   basket   all I can hear is the cars and trucks thundering over the bridge and the people on the other side of the bridge staring at us.

I’m so angry because I have been  sorting plastic bottles all my life and  me and my family and i are still under this bridge sorting plastic!   I walk over  and pick up a dirty green bottle and  throw it in a basket  but then I notice that it landed in the wrong basket. I stomp over and all I can hear is   the sound of of people laughing at us, I  pick the bottle back up and squeeze the bottle until the bottle is flat like a pancake. 

I walk over the bottles  and all we can hear is the bottles going “CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH!”I pick up a basket and there a variety of different fizzy drinks  like 7up,  Fanta and some more lying in the basket.  I pull out my knife and just before I cut off a label “AHH!” my mum shouts  as she sees a big brown rat with a long pink tail jump out of a chip packet.  I sit down and sigh and all  I’m thinking about is why do we need all this plastic?