Lucy’s+Assyrian+Attack

Lucy Gonzalez Period ¾ 10-10-2012    **__ The Assyrians Invade! __**  This morning I woke up thinking that it would be a normal and peaceful day as always here in our city-state, Sumer, but I was wrong and I found out when the invasion happened. It all happened while my father and brother were out in the wheat fields and I was on my way back from filling up our water jug. When I was walking towards our hut I felt the earth beneath me shake and I could hear the thunder like noise of the horses’ hooves stomping on the ground. At first I thought I was just imagining it so I continued walking and as I was walking I heard the squeaking noise coming from the wheels of the chariots. Then when I saw that the other people around me began to run Ithought that it was something bad, so I dropped the water jug and ran to our hut and asked my mother, “What are those noises and why is everyone so scared?’’ My mother was so frightened that she was paralyzed and that is when I realized that it was something bad. While she was silent I could hear the other people outside screaming, “Run for your lives………..hide!!!!!!!!!” A second later my mother answered me and said, “The Assyrians have come to take us and make us their slaves.” I was so scared that I had forgotten about my father and brother so I peeked outside and looked for them which was hard because all of the people were running, but after a while I found them. When I found them I saw the Assyrians kill my father and when my brother tried to do something about it he got shot by an arrow also. I wasn’t sure if I should tell my mother because I knew that she would run out of the hut and also get killed by the Assyrians, but I didn’t have to tell her because she also looked outside and saw them lying on the field covered with blood. As I said she ran out to the field, but before she got there she was stabbed in the back by a spear that one of the Assyrians had. Now that all of my family had been killed I had no idea of what I should do, so I stayed in our hut hoping that they would not find me. An hour had passed and I was still safe in our hut and no more people were screaming, so I decided to go outside. As soon as I walked outside I saw my best friend in the distance handcuffed and she tried to tell me something, but she was so far away that I couldn’t hear her. I went closer and asked her to repeat it and she said, “Lucy go back inside the Assyrians are still here!!!! I began to run towards our hut, but before I got there one of the Assyrians trapped me. I was able to escape while they weren’t looking, but before I could get too far away I heard an arrow flying through the wind, felt a HUGE pain on my lower back, and joined my family.