The Choice
English Class
As they sat there in the cold, dark belly of the ship, they contemplated who would be tossed into the sea and certainly doomed to a watery grave.
The pirates had seized, plundered, and set fire to the ship; and took captive only the captain, the cook, the mutinous second mate, and one cowardly deserter had survived the siege.
Their captors had given them two options in a dastardly strategy to break their spirit: either starve to death in their current lodging of cold, cramped quarters or they must choose one from among themselves to walk the plank and certainly sleep with the fishes. After much deliberation they chose _________, and this is the story of how they escaped...

