The Magical Jungle
A long, long, time ago there was a pharaoh who ruled the lands of Egypt. His name was Abasi, he was the oldest out of his brothers and sisters. Abasi was always used to bossing people around even when he was a young boy. When he was a teenager people would throw parades for him because of how much his people loved him. His father saw him as a great leader and made him pharaoh when he was 18 years old. Abasi grew older, and with each year he wanted more power and land. As time went on, people would cower at the mention of his name. At first he was so kind and everyone loved him and everything he did. The kids would line outside where he lived and wait for hours and hours just to see him. When he first became pharaoh, he didn’t need power and land he wanted what's best for his people but now he wants what's best for him. He would send workers after workers to go and find more land to conquer. The workers would die from being dehydrated or overworked. They were losing supplies of food, water, and other necessities, they had to do something. So, the workers came up with an idea to get rid of Abasi. They would trick Abasi by telling him that they found a magical jungle that had gold, plenty of food and water, and many other riches. Then the workers would leave him stranded in the middle of nowhere. Once the workers had told Abasi about the “magical jungle” he jumped to his feet. He wanted to start the journey immediately to go and see it for himself. He got his best workers and set off to find the “magical jungle”. Abasi was eager to finally have all the land and everlasting gold but Abasi was an impatient person so he had his workers carry him most of the way. The workers wanted to make sure they were far away so that Abasi would not return. They traveled for weeks. Many of the workers wanted to give up and just leave him where he was and dart off but they knew he would catch up and punish them all so they kept going. Abasi was so tired and just wanted to return home even though he wasn’t doing anything but then a worker shouted, “Over there Abasi, over the hill there is the jungle!” The workers all had grins on their faces, they dropped Abasi so that he could go see the “magical
These Grandfathers presented Black Elk with gifts to help him on his journey. A wooden cup, a bow and arrows, a white wing of cleansing, an herb to heal, a sacred pipe a flowering stick and the power to make live and to destroy were the tools that were given to him. Then, the Grandfathers showed Black Elk what was to become of his people. He was shown a holy tree which once had been flowering and was now gone. The people he was supposed to lead were thin and starving, and Black Elk cried as he saw the fate of his people.
The Lorax and the Once-ler fought until the very last Truffula Tree was chopped. The Once-lers family left and so did the Lorax. Just the Once-ler and his factory were left. But the Lorax left one thing, a small pile of rocks with a word carved into them, "UNLESS". So for years and years the Once-ler sat in his house on top of his factory and worried about what he had done. In his heart he felt terrible that he let his greed cause so much destruction. So one day he told his story to a boy that wandered to his house. He told the boy that the meaning of the pile of rocks that the Lorax left behind was clear to him now. Unless someone who cares a lot does something, nothing is going to get better. So he gave the boy the very last Truffula Tree seed and told him to plant it and protect it, and maybe some day there would be a forest of Truffula Trees again.
He could not make up his mind if it was a small island and he was very close, or if it was a massive one and he was far way. Still continuing to take step after step across the water, across the stretch of glass like liquid, he reached the sandy island. The moment his bristled toes touched the hot sand, Judai immediately fell into a deep slumber. When he hit the ground, his head split apart like an acorn in the mouth of a hungry squirrel. Memories of the past, every thought of his childhood, every story he had heard in school, spilled out of the crack in his head and blew away in the wind to be buried in the golden stretch. The sun rose and fell many times before he awoke again. In his sleep, sand had gotten into his eyes and mouth, and Judai was in terrible discomfort. He got up from this hypnotic spell and realized that this island, this desert hell had been his final prospect, left to ruin, to talk to the sand, alone for
Those people who were very lucky to get the jobs in mills, factories and mainly inside the industry of meat packing. Jurgis was the most dissatisfied person, experiencing the terrible circumstances which workers met. Along with these terrible circumstances, they joined job for small amount of salaries with hard and very lengthy timings, and in the environment where safety of employer had no value. Initially, here was no any migrants to move to, thus several suffered enormously. Afterward he would study of worker unions and different other unions to help the employees, but unfortunately the initially times of his Americanized life were packed, with joblessness and throughout a demoralizing; painful and depressing “new begin” (Conlin, 2009, 444-449).
4 hours later he had stopped walking and decided to rest for a while. Muraco and Cherokee rested near the the foot of Mount Shasta. They spent a day there. Muraco and Cherokee traveled and traveled. Muraco raised Cherokee for years and when she was 4 he decided that he couldn't do it anymore. So he abandoned her. He didn't want to but he had no other choice because he was growing old and he had trouble take care of Cherokee. Cherokee was left alone near the Tuolumne River. She didn't know what to do and she didn't know what was going on. She had no mother and her father left her. She had to do everything for herself. She had to find food, water, and shelter. The same day her father left her she saw a snake. The snake was slithering slowly towards her. Cherokee was not frightened. She was happy to see the snake because she was lost and didn't know what to do. The snake was energetic and lively. His name was Awanyu. Awanyu was a friendly snake but he didn't have any friends or family. He always traveled around for adventure. He said to Cherokee "Hello, are you lost?". "Yes. I don't know where my father is." Cherokee
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As the sun rose over the horizon it awoke the jungle slowly and efficiently. Soon I could hear the morning birds chirp with all their heart and that triggered joy and excitement in my soul. A morning breeze toured the jungle making the flowers and leaves tango with rhythm and finesse as though they were experts. The lush evergreen trees stood so firm as if the roots were clinging for their very life, in the distance there was a Crystal River and a waterfall as its source. I could hear the rampaging rapids after the dip of the waterfall which slowly converted into a swift river forcefully turning at every bank.