Giving brainliest help plz in your own words plz help read a short story about the ravine by Graham Salisbury then write a Reflective Paragraph
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Explanation:

Vinny slipped, and dropped his towel in the mud. He

picked it up and tried to brush it off, but instead smeared

the mud spot around until the towel resembled something

someone’s dog had slept on. “Tst,” he said.

Joe-Boy, hiking down just behind him, laughed. “Hey,

Vinny, just think, that kid walked where you walking.”

“Shuddup,” Vinny said.

“You prob’ly stepping right where his foot was.”

Vinny moved to the edge of the trail, where the ravine fell

through a twisted jungle of gnarly trees and underbrush to the

stream far below. He could see Starlene and Mo farther ahead,

their heads bobbing as they walked, both almost down to the

pond where the boy had died.

“Hey,” Joe-Boy went on, “maybe you going be the one to

find his body.”

“You don’t cut it out, Joe-Boy, I going . . . I going . . . ”

“What, cry?”

Vinny scowled. Sometimes Joe-Boy was a big fat babooze.

They slid down the trail. Mud oozed between Vinny’s

toes. He grabbed at roots and branches to keep from falling.

Mo and Starlene were out of sight now, the trail ahead having

cut back.

Joe-Boy said, “You going jump in the water and go down

and your hand going touch his face, stuck under the rocks.

Ha ha ha . . . a ha ha ha!”

Vinny winced. He didn’t want to be here. It was too soon,

way too soon. Two weeks and one day.

He saw a footprint in the mud and stepped around it.

The dead boy had jumped and had never come back up.

Four search and rescue divers hunted for two days straight

and never found him. Not a trace. Gave Vinny the creeps. It

didn’t make sense. The pond wasn’t that big.

He wondered why it didn’t seem to bother anyone else.

Maybe it did and they just didn’t want to say.

Butchie was the kid’s name. Only fourteen.

Fourteen.

Two weeks and one day ago he was walking down this

trail. Now nobody could find him.

The jungle crushed in, reaching over the trail, and Vinny

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