Desert Island Essay

The bright sun pierced through my silted eyelids as I made a feeble attempt to block the burning beams of light with my shaking hand.  Unsuccessful, I closed my eyes tightly, shutting out the ball of fire hanging overhead.  As my senses returned in a painful blow, I raised myself up slowly, spitting out a mouthful of sand.  With a quick glance, I uncovered an interesting fact.  All my clothes were gone.  Then it came flooding back.  Back on the SS. TUNA, I had heard a low rumbling, and then the deck cracked under the force of what must have been a massive explosion.  The last thing I could remember was the loud cracking of the ship's hull, and the I blacked out.  The blast must have burned my clothes clean off,  and threw me on to this desert island.  How odd that my clothes were burned off, and I was left without a scratch.  Shrugging off the many questions that my mind bombarded me with, I decided to take a tour of the island, and search for a possible means of escape.  "OH SHI-!"  I stopped myself short of a curse, and looked down at my aching toe. 

I painfully leaned over and examined the ground around my feet, discovering a 1922 Sears catalogue.  Exhausted and hungry, I reached for a coconut from the only tree.  I leaned against the palm tree eating the coconut and leafing through the ancient catalogue.  Thinking aloud, I muttered, "Gee, I wish I had some clothes".  POOF!  Magically, I was in the latest fashions of 1922.  Hmmm.......could it be?  I flipped through the catalogue until I found what I was looking for.  POOF!  "Wow, I always wanted a bread box".  Curious as to what else I could find, I thoroughly searched the catalogue, finding that the sports equipment and hardware sections were torn out, along with a coupon for next years catalogue.  I decided that I could use the magic catalogue to get off the island........but how?  BINGO!  I wished for 20 tables, a kite with a VERY long string, a mattress, a belt, a bathtub and a towel.  First, I clogged the bathtub drain with a towel, and laid the mattress on top, and floated it out to the coral.  Next, I stacked the tables, so that they reached 60 ft. high.  Standing on top of the stack, I flew the kite out to the coral, and snagged it tightly.  Pulling the string taunt, I tied it around the table leg, and looped the belt around it, forming a harness.  I climbed into the harness and pushed off.  I slid downwards along the string for hours, till I finally neared the 10 ft. high coral.  At the last second, I slid out of the harness and landed on the mattress I had previously sailed out to sea.  I bounced of the mattress 15 ft. in the air, clearing the coral and appearing in front of a helicopter which was passing by.  It flew over to me, and I grabbed on to the landing gear in mid-air, and was rescued without even touching the water or having to deal with the deadly shark that swam in it's dark waters.