The Feeling of Freedom Friday, June 7, 13
One summer day in Italy a boy called Julió and his family where outside playing a fun game of tennis. It was beautiful morning and Julió couldn’t wait to visit the city. The city was very clean and full of interesting stuff to buy. But first he needed to finish his chores before he could go to the city. “Julió, can you help me with the dishes” called his mom. “coming mama” replied Julió. Then he entered the house and went into the kitchen. His mom looked at his hands and said “ Julió go wash your hands, their filthy”. Julió went to the bathroom and washed his hands. After he was done he looked at himself in the mirror. He stared at himself for few seconds then turned away and went to the kitchen again. When he got there he asked his Mom “ Is this clean enough mama”? “It’s clean enough Julió” replied his mom. “Anyway, can you start helping me with the dishes”? “ Okay I’ll help you”. Friday, June 7, 13
When Julió was done helping his mom with the dishes he asked his mom “ Mama, can I go to the city”? “Okay, you can go now”. “Thank you Mama” “but I’m not driving you papa is”. After that he put on his best shoes and went into the car to go to the city. He knew it was going to be a long ride before he got there so he brant a book along with him. After the car ride he was in the city surrounded by millions of people. The odd thing was that the police were pushing the people aside and screaming at them to make way for these foreigners in military suits. The other odd thing was that they were stacking people on a truck that had a wristband with a picture of a blue star. Then dad told me “It’s not safe here let’s go home were it’s much safer”. Then his dad quickly went to the car and pushed him in the car and drove back home. “ Papa, why are they stacking people into trucks Dad”? “ I don’t know”replied his dad. When they got home they found their Friday, June 7, 13
next door neighbors in their house talking to Julió’s mom all about the people in the city that were wearing military suits. The neighbors said that the military people in the city are called the Nazis and their leader is a man called Adolf Hitler. He is stacking people that are jews that live in Europe in trucks to take them to the city of Poland. When they were done Julió’s mom came to Julió and his dad and told them all about the story the neighbors told her and after she was done telling the story they were all frightened and didn’t know what to do. They were panicking because they were jewish and they thought they were going to get caught. But then his dad had the most brilliant plan ever. They were going to sail to Argentina. Because it was the country his parents were born in and the safest country that they could go to. But the only bad thing is that his parents weren’t so good in their spanish so they took a class and then when they mastered their spanish I had Friday, June 7, 13
to master his spanish so he did but at school. Than they were ready to go. they packed all the stuff they would need and some of their friends are coming along too. They decided they would all live tomorrow. The next day they took all their stuff than when they were ready to leave they were thinking of how are they going to get a boat but then one of the neighbors said “I have a friend that lives close to the beach that can help as get a boat”. Then they all agreed that they would all walk their. when they got there one of the neighbors knocked on the door. The person that opened the door had along black beard that got up to his waist. “What do you want”? asked the person at the door. “ Can we use one of your boats Marcilò”? asked one of the neighbors. “What kind of boat do you want”? “any”. “I think I have something you all can fit in”. After looking for a good boat they all went on the boat and sailed. After sailing for 12 hours Julió saw a ship from a far distance that Friday, June 7, 13
looked like a military boat, It was getting closer and closer until he could see it clearly. Julió could see some of them pointing weapons at their boat. Then he quickly woke up his mom and dad and said “the army boat is pointing weapons at us”! then his mom and dad started paddling and paddling as fast as they could but one of the neighbors got shot thirty times in the chest and Julió’s dad got shot in the shoulder. They kept padddd Then Julió had a brilliant idea. He took a piece of clothing from the guy that died and wrap it around his dad then his dad said “thank you Julió”. “I’m glad your fine papa”. After sailing for 3 days they found out they were running out of water and food. So Julió’s mom had a brilliant idea. she boiled the salty water to take out the salt of the water and then they all took a sip of the un-salty water. Then one of the neighbors found a fishing rod in the boat and used it to catch fish. After they were done with eating they all fell asleep on the boat. Friday, June 7, 13
When they woke up they found them self on an island. “I think we arrived” said one of the neighbors. Just when the neighbor was done talking a helicopter was passing by. Julió’s mom and dad were jumping up and done shouting “here we are” “here we are” in spanish. Then the helicopter saw them and landed. He helped Julió first then everyone else. The guy in the helicopter asked “are you okay”? And Julió said “I’m fine”. Than The pilot started the engines, And then they were of. Julió was wondering to his self “ why did we have to come all this way just because a man doesn’t like are people”. “Why can’t we just all get along instead of killing each other”.
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This story is about entering a country that you feel safe but you never knew it exist. This story is based on the story of my grandma’s migration. When my grandma’s family left Italy because of WW2 and went to live in Argentina.
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