Narration

A week ago in English class, we watched some suspenseful snippets of several movies. We were then paired up and each pair chose one movie to narrate a short story based on the snippet. Here is the story my partner Dima and I came up with for the snippet of the movie Speed.

"Everything was normal on the highway that day, until a bus came hurtling down on the wrong lane. Chaos ensued; cars swerved to avoid the bus, streetlights crashed to the ground, and at one point, a baby’s trolley flew off the road. The bus driver’s main objective was to keep the vehicle’s speed above the 50 mph mark so that the bomb planted on the bus doesn’t go off.

The driver was burdened by the fact that she had to get all the passengers to safety. Taking many risks, she crosses red lights, swerves between lanes, and turns to unfinished roads. Then she takes a larger risk that ensured little success by attempting to jump across a 6 feet wide gap. After successfully landing on the other end of the road, she makes her way to the airport, an emptier spot where they can’t cause damage to civilians. They end up circling the airport’s runway multiple times while trying to dismantle the bomb. While making their way around the runway, they spot an empty airport bus driving past them. One of the passengers signals for the driver to align one of the bus’ doors with theirs at the same speed, and the passengers start moving from one bus to the other. After all the passengers safely board on the second bus, the bombed bus is steered away. When the speed of the bus goes under 50 mph, the bomb detonates at a distance from the second bus, and all the passengers are safely rescued."