Nigel And Corky example essay topic

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The Adventures of Nigel and Corky... They were on a rickety old plane that looked like I could " ve been flown sometime during the fifties, everyone was snickering and making comments about it when all of a sudden the engines started to sputter and die. The engines went out and the pilot was forced into attempting a crash landing, he dint do too good and the only survivors were Nigel Frampton, a world famous explorer and professional treasure hunter and Corky, the pilots assistant, see Corky was a little slower than normal and the only reason he worked for the pilot is because the pilot felt sorry for him. As they gathered all the supplies that were salvageable Nigel was trying to come up with some sort a plan. After they were ready Nigel explained to Corky that they were going to continue with the expedition while looking for some sort of civilization where they could get a hold of someone to come help them.

It didn't really look too likely for a while because they were stranded deep in the middle of the thick jungles of South America. They started walking north figuring they would run into something after a while but they found something all too soon. Before Nigel knew he could hear Corky yelling for help about thirty feet away from him. Corky had wandered off a little bit and walked right into a big puddle of quicksand and was slowly sinking helplessly. Nigel had the think quick so he looked for something to throw Corky, he noticed long sturdy looking vines hanging off of a tree nearby and ran over to cut a vine down to toss to Corky as a makeshift life saver. In his rush to help he didn't pay much attention to what vine he was grabbing, when he reached up and grabbed onto the closest vine to him he heard a very intimidating hiss from very close.

As he looked down to see what was hissing he noticed the "vine" he grabbed wasn't a vine at all it was a vine snake! Vine snakes are notorious for blending in with the vines of a long tree and striking on unsuspecting victims, releasing their extremely venomous poison into the victim killing them almost instantly. Nigel being the expert he was didn't over react to the situation and calmly let go of the snake and at the same time quickly cut off a nearby vine from the tree and ran over to Corky, by this time he had sunk to his waistline and was getting pretty impatient with Nigel. Nigel tossed him one end of the vine so he could hold on while he tried to pull him out of the death trap. After nearly ten minutes of pulling as hard as he could Nigel finally got Corky out of the puddle.

After the mishap they were both exhausted so they decided to look for a place suitable to camp for the night. After another ten minutes or so of walking they found a perfect place to set up camp and to settle into for the night. They have everything set up and ready in a bout an hour then Nigel sent Corky to go gather some firewood. Corky returned not too long after he left with enough wood for the night. They cook a small portion of the food they brought from the crash site, ate it and went to bed.

When Corky woke up the next day Nigel was cooking a small breakfast of dehydrated eggs and toast for the both of them. As they were eating Nigel explained that they were going to have to walk almost nonstop all day not really looking for any artifacts or anything like that just looking for help because they were already starting to run low on supplies. Nigel guessed that what they had left would only last a day or two more. After they were all packed up and ready to go they put the campfire out and started continuing north. After what seemed to be hours of walking Corky notice a statue like thing off in the distance and told Nigel. They decided that if this was some sort of exploring breakthrough they could take a little time out of the walking routine to investigate.

They took off their backpacks and decided to get a closer look. As they got closer Nigel started to really get nervous, the area was too quiet, the animals weren't even making noise. Right as Nigel paused walking to warn Corky that he felt uneasy he saw Corky drop to the jungle floor; all of a sudden he felt something hit him in the neck and felt his consciousness leave him. The two explorers were awakened by a splash of water to the face, when they looked around they noticed they were surrounded by nearly fifty of the jungles native people, savages that would eat human if needed, or angered. They were shouting at the two men in tongue that might as well have been Greek because they could understand nothing.

They were just standing there yelling at the two men when all of a sudden they started to charge after the Nigel and Corky.