Task 7: From "Its" Point of View

For this task, you are to write a story from the point of view of either an animal or some object. Here is an example:

The Star

   I remember my first day out in the world very well. I had been put together very carefully and for what seemed the longest time, I just lay around in the darkness. I had become used to being jostled around every  once in awhile, but I had never yet seen daylight. Then one day, there was

a lot of noise, yelling, I think, made by a great number of very tall, active creatures. I had  been yanked from where I had always remembered being, and found myself flying through the air—and I remember it was very, very bright. I landed in a soft spot held by one of those creatures.

   Within seconds, I was a again being hurled from one of those creatures to another, each witha soft "landing area" on one of its end parts. Finally I ended up back with the original creature. There was a silence, then it hurled me with great force at another creature who swung a heavy (and very hard, I might add) wooden stick at me. The contact was a blinding hurt, but it lasted

only a brief time. I was drive up, up and over the heads of all the rest of the creatures and again I heard a terrific amount of that yelling stuff.

   Yes, I remember that first day in the light. I landed outside of the place where all those creatures were, bounced on a hard, black surface, and rolled under what I later learned was a "car." In the end I was picked up by a creature who seemed to think that I was very important, because I was placed on the mantle over a fireplace in a special glass case and never had to be

hit with that stick again!

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Can you guess what the teller of this story was? Your story should be written in much this same manner, but longer, at least one whole page in length.  Use more details, bring in feelings, sounds, sights, tastes, etc., whatever will make your object or animal seem to really be telling

the story. Write the story in the "first person," that is, have the animal or object tell the story ("I did this...." "I did that....").

(Taken from Rick Swallow Website: http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/)