Original Story Using Quotations from Storm on the Island.

This is a brilliant way to improve students’ vocabulary, learn to write great description, and to plot a narrative.
Then there is the fantastic bonus that it makes the quotations from the poem truly memorable.

Here is the beginning. I hope you like it.

Description/ Narrative Based on Storm on The Island

Wizened by hope, the old man sits in the waiting room. His mind dives from the cliffs of cancer - yes, the tests will show if it has spread, Mr Stook - it twirls through fear, spins at the thought of nothing, of nothing waiting beyond the dark, of emptiness, and summersaults towards hope, spread before him like a sunlit lake. Perhaps they have caught him in time.

He chuckles optimistically to himself, fingers curled in a ball upon his walking stick, his back stooped by the blows of time, the blasts of age, rounded, like a ball. He thinks, “I ought to be easy to catch!”