Titanic

The last photo of the Titanic, taken April 11th, 1912 

On this day at 2:20 am 100 years ago the Titanic sank. Today my mother, my sister and I went to go see the movie titanic. Now I have seen this movie many times, and I’m sad to say when I was younger I laughed at people who fell, and made jokes about peoples suffering in the movie. But today as we were watching it, my mom leaned over my sister to tell me that today was the day that the titanic went down. Now before she said this to me I was having a good time making jokes about the movie, but after she told me that, I just sat back and thought, I may have been laughing at things people may have actually gone though. Now when I was younger I went though many stages of interest, for example for a year I read as many books, articles and watched many videos about the holocaust. Then I went through a stage about finding out as much as I could about the titanic. Now I’m still very interested in both those topics, but as I watched the movie I could see much truth/facts about the titanic. Like the people, Margaret Brown (Molly Brown) was a true person, and according the book “Titanic love stories” by Gill Paul, she did indeed argue with the crew members on board the life boat to go back to search for survivors. In the movie they also speak of John Jacob and Madeleine Astor, they were true people as well.



Now that I’m 19, I’m starting to see things in a different way. Things that were funny before are not that funny now. Its like I’m seeing the world with new eyes. I cannot imagine the fear those people felt when the Titanic was sinking, the sadness they felt when they got onto the life boats, never knowing if they would see their loved ones again. The part that makes me sad the most is that the Titanic was carrying 2,223 people and 1,517 died. 130 first class passengers died, 166 in second class and 536 in third class. Their were 899 crew members and 685 of them died. Most women and children in first class survived, the same cannot be said for those in second and third class. Although their were not many children on board a lot of them died. 53 children died that night which is about half of them. In the end the highest casualty rate was men, 1,347 of them died and 103 women died. Their was a strict women and children first rule when it came to letting people on life boats.


So lets take a moment to remember those people who died on the Titanic.