My Father's World: school

This is a story I wrote yesterday for an assignment in school. I wrote it using from the perspective of the lizard:

The Lizard's Day

The lizard wakes to a warm sunny morning, but too cold to go get breakfast. He decides he should wait awhile.

After about ten minutes, he is warm enough to start hunting. He looks around briefly to see if there is food nearby; ah, his eyes fall upon a beetle scurrying across the rocky terrain and the chase is on!

He chases that beetle till he is just about on it. As he opens his mouth to engulf it a horrible sting burns his tongue. This is no breakfast, but a bombardier beetle! YUCK!!

Soon, luckily, a suitable breakfast comes along, and he enjoys his meal.

The lizard continues to bask on his warm, beautiful, rock, taking in the sun's warmth. But oh no, what does he hear? It is the screech

of an eagle and the beating of wings; this is no time to bask in the sun. Full of energy and fear, he dashes for a crevasse in the rock. Just as he reached it, the eagle's sharp beak rips his tail off, but that's all the eagle gets - the tail, and the lizard's tail end closes up so not much blood is lost.

In the early evening, the lizard is once again basking, waiting, and being hungry. He hears a rustling sound in the nearby grass. Thinking it another meal, he crawls curiously

towards it, but to his surprise it's another lizard, a rival lizard. The two reptiles aggressively size each other up, wondering who will attack first. The rival lunges at his enemy inflicting wounds into his tail. But the current ruler bites back at the attacker's neck hard enough to discourage his opponent and then he chases it away. Thus the owner keeps his territory. And the lizard retires for the night and slinks back to his crevasse.

Thursday, 28 October 2010

The Lizard's Day