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Story behind this incompleted short story: We were asked to put ourselves into the shoes of a particular animal and try to describe the world we live in through their eyes. I chose to do a story about a wombat and his encounters with humans and human-made objects. However, I never got the chance to finish this story and now, after many years later, I have no recollection on how I was planning on continuing this story.....
.....How would you have ended this story?......
I was exploring the other side of the bush when I heard a loud, ear-piercing noise that made the galahs in the tree ahead fly off in panic. I turned around the corner to see what it could be.
A huge object whizzed past at such a speed I felt I was being blown away.
When the dust settled, I realised that right in front of me was a hard, black, stony object taht seemed to stretch for mmiles on end on either side. On the other side was another area of scrub.
I decided to cross this black, stony object to the other side.
No sooner had I made my way across, when a huge, black, fast-moving monster rushed at me.
I began to run, but the monster rolled past, squashing my foot.
All of a sudden, the gigantic thing stopped. It's side split open and a rather unusual creature, which walked on two legs, began to approach me. My leg was in pain. I wailed as the strange animal walked towards me.
Suddenly I was lifte up by the creature, who spoke very strangely, not in grunts like us wombats. It was high pitched, and too fast for my liking.
"Oh my," the animal inquired, "your leg looks really bad. I think we should take you to the vet."
The vet? What did he mean by that?
The creature had put me in a sort of barrier made of a soft, brown material. The monster's back was lifted up and I was put there to settle in the brown barrier thing.
Was this called the vet? Probably it was.
Once again, the monster's side split open, and the creature climbed in. A rumbling noise echoed through the object and it began to move.
A while later, it came to a halt.
"Here we are," the kind-hearted being crooned........
2 comments:
Nice article. You are actually invoking the "love animals" for a theme. To end your post, why don't you ask your readers to share their personal story if they have the same experience like what you had in school.
Putting yourself in the shoes of animals means you have to think and act like them. But you are fortunate for you are human and you operate with your mind that is always logical--like you think before you leap. But animals do not do that, oftentimes they operate by instinct so they leap without thinking. :)
The moral of the story is man and animals could co-exist and share love and respect for each other. One of the most wonderful things about animals is their loyalty to their masters. Dogs for instance are "man's best friends".
Good work Raymond. Keep it up!
Hello Bai!
Thank you for your loyalty in reading my articles, and thank you for what you wrote here! :-)
Yes, it is true that animals and humans think alike. However, there are humans in the world who also operate on instinct and do not exercise self-control. Unlike humans though, animals use their instincts for survival. Humans who act impulsively tend to cause damage to themselves and to others.
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