Kevin Putnam

Per. 2, Krucli

Oct. 10, 2003

How is a clock like bubonic plague?

            The Bubonic plague spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages killing many innocent people. This plague was so deadly that people usually died within 24 hours after getting this. It was also known as the Red Death.

A clock is like the bubonic plague in only a few ways. A clock is an invention used to keep time, to tell time. It has a pendulum which swings back and forth turning the gears that turn the second hand, counting off the seconds, which turn to minutes, then hours, days, years and so on. The Bubonic plague, or red death, traveled through the people killing people off. Like a clock counts off seconds, the bubonic plague counts off people. One by one, the people fall to the ground, they are gone like the seconds of a clock. Once the seconds get to 60 they start over, as a new minute. Like the life of a person, still a human but in a different life. Then the bubonic plague strikes again, killing off everyone as a clock kills the time.