Great Wall of China
Tami Davidson, Group 2: Fiction, Carmel School Association Elsa High School
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ve always wanted to go to china, never been able to. I have heard many stories about the places
you can go see, the people you can meet, all the food you can eat. But, I will never be able to go
and see those places, meet those people and eat the food, and this is why. Many years ago when
they were building the great wall, a part of China called Qiangda, de Guojia left China for a long
time to travel the world, they got food to bring back toCchina, my ancestors were in that city, they
were the ones that left. Then they came back to china to tell everyone about their travels, but when
they arrived they came to find a huge wall separating them from going into china, they were trapped,
they couldn’t go back to their home, their friends or their lives. This wall was the Great Wall of China.
When they left the wall was built. And now I’m standing here on the other side of the great wall,
trapped with all the rest of the descendants of these people. Were stuck. We can’t get past the wall. No
one can. And no one knows were here because when those people came back they found a whole in the
great wall, they all went through it to find there was nothing on the inside except for a cave. And that’s
where they stayed. One day, someone came and closed up that whole at night when they were all
sleeping. The reason were still alive is because this cave isn’t just a cave. It’s a magical cave, food
grows in there. There is no rain or any sunlight but the food still grows. Inside the cave there is also a
little water machine that has a little pipe that the water goes through into a bucket for us all to drink.
None of us have any idea how it’s magical and why but right now we don’t care about that. We care
about getting out of here. We can’t decide what were going to do. Because if we try breaking down the
walls the whole wall will fall on the rest of us plus its not like we can just give it a kick and it’ll break.
Were stuck. But there may be a solution. There is someone who has magical powers who might be able
to help us out. He is going to use magic to make the walls easy to go through, almost like the wall isn’t
even there. But they would have to make sure there isn’t anyone on the other side, for instance the
guards. So at exactly 5:07 pm that day the man that has magic will make the walls invisible but only
for them. So, that day at 5:07 the magical man, named Rumpelstilskin, performed the magic and made
the walls invisible. We walked, ran and jogged all the way through. Until we go to the other side. We
saw china for the first time in our lives. It was beautiful and exhilarating. I never saw anything like it
before. There were trees, grass, people, buildings and temples. My life mission was fulfilled. I was 50
years old but really, my life had just started.
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