New Tales of the Great Wall
Ka Ho Hui, Group 3: F
agic” and “Science” were the most famous subject that people wanted to learn a long time
ago. However, with the progress of civilization, “Magic” has been unwittingly forgotten by
humans. Time flew by until one day, there was a man who used “Magic” to explain all the
events that “Science” couldn’t explain. Most of the people called him Magician Wizard.
iction, HKMA David Li Kwok Po College
One day, Magician Wizard went to the most populated country in the world, China.
After he went up to the highest mountain in China, he used his magic to build an extremely long road with stairs.
Then, Magician Wizard called this extremely long road, the Great Wall.
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Magician Wizard also called it, ‘Den-liner’. He told something to all of the people there. “In the train of time,
Den-liner, is the next station the past or the future?” After he asked this question to them, he disappeared.
One day, there was a teenager called Philip. He was just an ordinary teenager. He was not faster,
stronger or more clever than other people. He had had a terrible past too. When he was still a child, there was a
fire in his house. Unfortunately, this accident had taken away all his family members including his mother,
father and his brother. Philip was the only one who survived. However, it gave Philip a horrible memory that
existed in his brain forever.
Philip was living in his grandparent’s home in China. He liked to walk around the places near his
original home when he was free. This was all because he could not forget that accident. He wanted to remember
the time we spent with his family. Therefore, he didn’t go to school to study and only walked around those
places.
When he was walking around one day, he passed through a street with many televisions. One of the
televisions was talking about the story of the extremely long road, the Great Wall. It was talking about the
history of the Great Wall and the other name of the Great Wall, Den-liner. When it was talking about the name
of Den-liner, it attracted Philip. He heard that walking in this time of train could take you back to the past as you
liked. It was a great chance that he could meet his family again. Therefore, he went to the starting point of the
Great Wall immediately.
As travelling through time is most of the people’s wishes, it had attracted a lot of people to try this
miracle. When all the people started to walk in this Den-liner, included Philip, each person started to find that
they were not in the Den-liner any more. Each person had already gone back to the past. Philip felt delighted
when he knew he had gone back to the past. He ran to his original house that he lived in when he was a child as
fast as he could. He could really see his family again. He felt delighted as he couldn’t believe what he saw.
At first, Philip’s family was delighted when they saw Philip because they were a family. It couldn’t
become a family even there were only one missing. Then, they started to have a joyful time from that time.
However, the joyful time in this family couldn’t last long. First, Philip’s family knew that they were going to die
in the fire accident from Philip. The reason why they felt disappointed was not because they were going to die.
It was because they knew that it was a must that they needed to die. They couldn’t change it. Secondly, Philip’s
family knew that Philip was in despair after that accident. He didn’t go back to school to study, and recalled the
memory of the time spent with his family continuously, etc. Philip had already given up his future.
After hearing the reason why Philip’s family weren’t happy to see Philip like that, Philip could not
believe that. He still didn’t understand why his family wasn’t happy when they heard about the situation of
Philip after that accident. He thought his family would be proud of him because he didn’t forget about his family.
The next day, he also did not feel very well even though his family was there too. It was not because
his family was not well. Then why did he feel bad? As he didn’t know the answer and he felt really confused, he
ran out of the house and walked around. Suddenly, he saw that there was an interview on the television. The
interviewee was a very famous magician at that time. He was talking about his past. In fact, this magician had
had the same accident with Philip. He also lost all of his family members.
However, after he spoke a sentence, it inspired Philip. He understood why his family was really
worried about him and why he had felt bad.
Suddenly, the environment around Philip started to change. He was back at the Great Wall. Although
he felt disappointed that his family and he needed to be separated again, he didn’t felt despair anymore. He went
back home immediately. He took out his textbooks and went back to school at once. He aspired to study hard
too! Finally, he became the most famous doctor in the world at that time.