The Boys Ambition

The Boy’s Ambition In the sleepy town of Hannibal, Missouri things are simple and easy. In the mornings things are quite and people are dozing off, but when the steamboats arrive at the wharf things become very hectic. Mornings in Hannibal are quite and sleepy, the streets are empty; people are still sleeping or are in their homes. Store clerks are napping against their store fronts. Wooden flats against the edge of the wharf, the water from the Mississippi softly crashing upon the town’s edge. Animal’s walking through thee streets lazily grazing on food left in the streets. Most people in this town rely on steamboats for the excitement and the goods that come along with it. When the drayman hollered steamboat, the whole town changes. The store clerks wake up and become active, people rush from their houses to the wharf. They are getting ready to load and unload freight from the boat. Even the water crashing upon the shore seems to change, it ripples are hits harder and the boat displaces water. As the boat approaches the wharf the tows people stand and watch in aww of that magnificent beauty. Even the animals stop to watch the excitement of people running amuck. Once the steamboat makes it to the wharf, workers board and remove freight and reload it. After the freight has been unloaded people go back to their homes the town drunk doses back off to sleep and the sore clerks go back to resting upon their store fronts, animals go back to walking around. The water goes back to softly lapping against the edge of town. The steamboat is the main factor that changed the town, but that made everything around change; the people, the environment and overall feeling of the town. The steamboat has such an effect because that is one of the things that the townspeople can count on happening every day so it has become a routine. Even though it happens every day it always has an effect.