The Eco-Friendly Master
French International School, Charlotte Ip, Fiction Group: 2
S
itting on his bed, Jack was staring at the television. The television was showing a
documentary about the natural wonders of the Earth. Then a picture of the Gobi Desert
popped upon the screen. As Jack stared at the screen, he felt himself falling through space...
“Jack? Jack!” He could hear his mother’s voice calling him distinctly. “Jack!” He was
on soft sand so fine, it felt like lying down on a cloud. He sat up and spotted his father rounding
up some goats that were grazing nearby.
His father cried. “I’ve just had a brainwave! There are plenty of trees in the area around us.
So we can cut all the trees down, use the wood and space to build farmhouses and pens for the
animals. We’ll be killing two birds with one stone. We’ll make a fortune doing this!” Jack and
his mother nodded enthusiastically. They started chopping down all the trees they saw, and soon,
they had hacked down every tree in the clearing!
But soon, his father died. It turned out that he died of overworking. Three weeks later, Jack’s
mother died too. Jack suspected that she died of a broken heart, but he never was quite sure. Just
before she died, she called Jack to her bed for one last goodbye. At that moment, she had never
looked so beautiful. He pale, white face surrounded by her dark hair, looked like the moon itself in
a midnight cloud. Jack swore that he would never forget that moment.
He continued to run the farm, but what he did not notice was that he and his family had
cut down the Great Green Wall, which prevented the Gobi Desert from expanding. By the time
he realized what he had done, it was too late. The Gobi Desert had expanded so quickly, it had
covered the farm completely!
Luckily, Jack managed to escape. Panting, he sat on a rock, thinking of what to do next. As
he sat there, an idea hit him. “Since my family and I chopped down the Great Green Wall, maybe
I can help replant it again!” he thought. With no time to lose, Jack began digging like a maniac
until he reached the farm. He barged inside, and got several wheelbarrows and all of his father’s
hard-earned money. Jack loaded the money on the wheelbarrows, and with a colossal effort, he
began pushing them upwards. With a grunt, he pushed the last one up. Then using his father’s cell
phone, he phoned other countries, and bought two million packs of the finest soil, ten thousand
seeds, seven hundred thousand plant pots, and ten million gallons of fresh water. Each of the
plants got tender, loving care from Jack, and he planted them as if he were planting magic beans.
Fifteen years later, Jack finally planted the last tree and smiled in triumph. As he looked at the
sky, he felt the whole world spinning around him, the sky was turning from blue to black, and all
sounds he could hear were fading from his ears.
Jack woke up in his own bedroom. His father had finished reading the newspaper and was
about to stuff it in the rubbish bin when Jack came charging downstairs. “Don’t waste paper!” he
cried. “Can’t you be more eco-friendly? There are a ton of trees being cut down this minute! If the
Great Green Wall gets cut down, the Gobi Desert will expand into China!” His father and mother
nodded slowly. From that day on, Jack and his family were eco-friendly. A lot of people all around
the world agreed with them and they soon got famous. Jack started an eco-friendly center and he
became known as the “Eco-friendly Master” all throughout his life.
