Personal Narrative: The Easiest Colony Of Jamestown

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Steve and his family live in Jamestown, Britain’s easiest colony, in the United States. They live in an older house made from early settlers. Steve and his wife have two children. One bay named Cole and one daughter named Stacy. While at work one day, his coworker was explaining that the US was predestined to expand across the continent. Steve thought this was exciting. He always wanted to move out of the town and travel somewhere so he can more land. When Steve’s shift was over, he ran home to tell his wife, Helen, the great news. When Steve returned home, he found Helen sitting at the dining room table drinking tea. After he finished telling her his great news, she did not look impressed. Helen didn’t want to leave Jamestown. It was great …show more content…

Steve returned to work but found a flyer that explained there was gold out in California. Steve immediately ran home and Showed Helen the flyer. Once again, she was not impressed. Her excuse today was the average American cities moves once every three years and they have only lived in Jamestown for three years. Steve would not stop there. Later that night, Steve got his family all together in the Dining room and went over his idea one last time. He started explaining to the children first because they were younger and would be more excited about moving. Cole and Stacy got really excited about moving west. They really want to live on a farm with pigs and horses. They begged their mom to say yes but she still wasn’t sure. Steve said it was time to get away from the town and they could start a new life out west. Helen always wanted to be a dairy farmer. She soon agreed and the next day, they packed their things and headed out. On the way they said goodbye to all of their friends and family and headed out. While on the trails, Helen noticed that it was mostly flat plains in the north. She thought this was perfect and this was their final destination. Steve told her they were only halfway there and they were about to come up to these really cool mountains. Stacy couldn’t figure out why they were so great. Steve said they were full of plateaus and intermountain basins. Stacy still didn’t think they were …show more content…

Helen was mad. They left their home to come here but they found nothing. Helen decided she would go into the town to find friends of her own. One girl invited her in for tea. She was explain that her family moved here because they were promised 160 acres of land for moving west. Helen did not seem happy about this either. They weren’t promised anything. Helen started talking about Jamestown and the girl soon said the US got that land from Britain. Helen didn’t know this. Helen soon found out the US got most of their land form Britain, France, and Spain. Helen returned home after

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