Descriptive writing- Priams emotional Journey

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Navid Mehdi

Descriptive writing- ‘Priam’s emotional Journey’             

My blood ran cold as I lay awake in my hut, shivering in the cold night. I wish it was cold that made me shiver, but it was the screams of my innocent people, and the laugh of Salem Jones that shook my bones and froze my blood. Pure evil lives that man; his whip is the instrument that executes his hate, his cruel and vengeful campaign to make our lives as miserable as possible. His whip is the tool that embodies our nightmares, that makes every day a potential punishment.

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Crack! Another lashing. Another scream. Another snigger from Salem. “Give me another one!” he commanded.

 I have to escape this hell! Even though I have been branded, even though I cannot escape my past, I am as good as dead in this place. Hell has already showed itself to me as this plantation at Mont Royal, and the devil himself is Salem Jones. The persecutor, the executor; the man that is slowly destroying our souls. He is the rot slowly eating away at the life of the slaves at this plantation.

Slaves. I look up at the ...

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