Blog 6

Book: The Long Valley
Story: Johnny Bear
pages read this week: 134
Pages read since semester: 568

Writing Challenge: Fan Fiction

Johnny Bear, tall, slim but muscular, shining eyes, round but hardened face. He was a young man who had seen nearly twenty five springs in his life, but not a single one brought charm for him. He lived in this war torn part of Sudan, with no one else but loneliness being his companion. He had lost his father to an encounter between the rebels and the Sudan forces about a decade ago. Couple of years later, his mother and sister were gang raped and killed by the Sudanese army. He was filled with hatred for the ongoing war, which was leading the impoverished nation to nowhere else but destruction. In all those years, he had developed a profound love with the nature, because of no one being left in his family; but, something he loved the most was the Gorilla family. He liked to watch all seven of them play, eat and lice together. They reminded him of his own family. Among the sounds of flying bullets, falling mortars and grenades, they were the ones who delighted him. Johnny would think that among all those who are destroying the peace on earth, there is still something which mother nature has kept intact to make her destroyers aware of her presence and delicacy. He feared that they could be hurt, but both sides always valued them. However, one day, some gunshots were heard in the night. No one anticipated why they were fired. Within next few days, bodies of all seven members of gorilla family were found to be shot to death. Johnny was deeply hurt. So much that he decided to leave Sudan at once. He wanted to get away from the habitat destroyers, man hunters, and apathetic creatures of God, who call them the superior of all species.