On page 46, the author says “Carmen leaned against the tree. Carmen and Tony take their friendship for granted and it could have gotten taken away in an instance. Another lesson from this story is that people will sometimes not know when their last time with someone is. Tarshis is showing that even if we want to keep things sometimes it is best to let them go. Tarshis states “Carmen understood that some things get taken away, no matter how hard you try to hold on to them”. They realize that throughout life people lose things. On page 35 it states “They floated on the shutters for hours”.Īs a thirty-five mile an hour liquid floods the streets Carmen and her family try to find safety. The process of getting out of the dangerous flood was grueling. He climbed upon it, and told Carmen to hold his back”.
On page 34 Tarshis states “Papa grabbed a shutter from a ruined house. Firstly, the flood caused severe damage to the city of Boston. This book goes into precise details about how the flood happened. Out of nowhere, a big tank breaks open filling the streets with thick sticky substances. She writes about a person who survived the flood in Boston and told the story.Īt the beginning of the book, Carmen and Tony make their way home as they do every day. Taking place in 1919, Lauren Tarshis wrote this to show the events that happened during this disaster. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood had many themes relating to natural disasters. People would not believe how many themes there are in this book. But where will she find the strength? I was told that even today when it rains the smell of molasses still pervades the neighborhoods. Caught in the flood, Carmen must fight for her life - the life that she and Papa built together in America.
But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Discover the story of this strange disaster in the next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series.Ī deadly - and strange - disaster. I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (I Survived, #19) by Lauren Tarshis details the incident from 100 years ago, where a defective storage tank resulted in a killer wave of molasses that struck a crowded Boston neighborhood.
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