Alcatraz: The Legendary Prison :: Descriptive Essay About A Place

Alcatraz The Legendary Prison We stepped off the large tour sauceboat with a look of fright in both our eyes. Some happiness was there, just knowing what went on in this cast made us feel the commission we did. To me, Alcatraz didnt really look same a come together down prison at that moment. It looked more like an old faint down cemetery. The paint on most of the buildings was chipped off all the way down to the wood. Most of the buildings had collapsed down to nigh cement foundations and old decay poles hanging every other way. As we walked to the building where you start your tour, that was believably the only building at this place with cleanliness to it. They gave us our tour headphones, which tug you through the whole prison with a audio guide grievous you how it was in the prison. Not just how it was for the prisoners, but how it was for the guards too. The first place our expert guide took us to was the guard towers. They were about fifty feet tall and held te eming room for maybe two guards. The towers looked too old for anybody to get into these days, but they had a view of a good portion of that side of the prison and a good section of the ocean. There were towers stationed the entire way about the prison with maybe 100 yards in between them. The towers were protected with firm glass 360 degrees round. After viewing the towers Sean and I wanted to go capture the prison cells. So we turned off our guide tapes for awhile and started gallery up to the prison house. Everywhere Sean and I looked, it seemed like the entire place was just eroded. Some places were fenced off because they were not safe enough for spectators like ourselves to get close enough to look at.We finally got to the prison cells by and by following a long cement path that would take you anyplace at Alcatraz. The path nearly looked like a road, or some type of path they used for some type of transportation. Anyways, we went inside to look for how creepy the prison cells were really going to be. Well yep, they were just as we thought. Just glancing at them gave me weird feelings in my stomach. The first thing I did was got in a cell and told Sean to take a picture.