Fiction: Group 2
Hope
Peak School, Joseph-Hui, Alexandra - 8, Fiction: Group 2
his is a story about believing in your dreams, having courage and having hope.
The story begins now. Once upon a time there was a poor girl called Samara in a village in Africa.
She lives in a tiny mud hut and sleeps on cardboard. But she still has hope....
SO one day, after planting corn and working hard with her face drenched with sweat, Samara walked into
her tiny mud hut and sighed. Her house was a ruin! From that day and on how she wished and wished she
was relaxing right near the Pearl River Delta.
Then one night, she said to herself I don’t like being so sad.
I should do something about it. So each night when her parents were sleeping, she thought and thought
about the Pearl River Delta and what she thought she wrote down on paper.
Here is what she wrote: I would love to meet the sea animals that play at the Pearl River Delta. I dream that
I had enough money to fly away from my village and meet the wise men who had been there. I wish that I
could dip my hand into the cool, clean water and touch the smooth yet rough shells with the deep pearl
colour.
The next night she wrote:
I keep thinking about the Pearl River Delta every day, everywhere. My whole body quivers and I hear the
swishing and splashing of the waves and I smell a fresh smell - of cool clean air and water and I feel like I’m
actually there. Right there sitting right next to the Pearl River Delta! I feel so happy yet so miserable. Her
heart really ached when she thought, but she kept writing and writing.
So Samara finished writing after 6 days then she made all
her writing into a book. She couldn’t stand keeping the book, so she gave the book to an elderly couple
who were much richer than her family on a holiday in Africa.
Many months past, and one morning after Samara woke up she heard loud noise outside her door. She
opened it to see huge crowds of people all holding a copy of the book. “ You wrote this young lady?!” they
asked excitedly. ”Y-yes” Samara answered shakily, not knowing what was going on. “Its fabulous” They
shouted complementing her. “Why thank you,” she said back. From that day on there were copies all
around the world. People loved her book! She was a young writer. And Samara and her family became rich,
and all her life Samara still remembered the Pearl River Delta.
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