Creative writing

Plan

Push Factors

• Cramped housing
• Shared toilet
• No heating
• Working children
• Same bath with family
• Diseases
• No backyard
• Houses close together
• Child labour

Pull factors

• No diseases
• Open land
• Lots of room
• A chance to start a new life
• Less pollution
• A better life

My Story

As a young woman living in London in 1847, it was disgusting, it was dirty and there were diseases going around everywhere. I have just recently lost some of my closest friends to a disease called Scarlet fever, I just hope I didn’t catch it off of them. The other day I was reading in the paper about a far away land, New Zealand. I heard people saying that there is a boat heading there in a couple of days and I’m thinking of buying a ticket.

So I’m on the boat now, I've been on here for about 10 minutes and I already feel sick. I feel like I’m going to vomit everywhere, this is not going to be a good trip. The only thing good about it is looking out onto the ocean and watching the dolphins jumping around, it is beautiful. I’m walking into my room and I see that there are two bunk beds in it and I realise that I’m sharing a little, cramped room with three other people. I put all one of my bags on my bed and decide to take a nap. I’m going to stop writing now but i’ll start again when I get to New Zealand.

Ok so I’m at New Zealand now and it is nothing like I had expected. It’s so different from London, there aren’t even any buildings or many people. I’m so happy to start my life again.