Mr. Monkey!
Since reading The Perks of being a Wallflower, I have been thinking of writing as another character since long. And for the first one, well, I wanted to write as a monkey. Well, I know this may seem funny, but I had this blazing idea so I am going to share this with you!“It was shouting which woke me up from my sleep. Then the excruciating pain. A human had stepped on my tail. Yes, a HUMAN! A month ago a man had captured me from the great jungle. And look at me now, broken down so much that my previous glory does not remain. Now, glory? Well, I might have been the youngest and the most reckless one in the tribe, but, I had been a popular tail (I am a monkey after all) because I had saved another monkey’s life. And our clan takes that kind of thing seriously.And now this has happened. I never expected this to happen with me. It was a regular day and me and my friends were swinging from trees to trees. Now, as I was (and maybe still am) reckless- I jumped towards a fruit I saw on the ground. It looked delicious- I picked it up and bit it. I was just savouring the taste when a net came crashing on me and BAM!I don’t remember anything else on what happened after that. And now I wake up. Seeing myself in a curious box thingy which looks like as if it’s made of gray color sticks but is very hard to break. Then I heard shouting up in front of me. I looked up and saw people looking at me. Then my cage (as I heard humans saying my jail kinda thingy as a cage) was tossed into a huge abomination which rumbled and whirred as it began to move ahead. I was scared. Hell scared. Never thought this would happen with me. The abomination? Well, it was a truck- just don’t ask me what it is, I heard the people saying this thing in which I am as a truck. I just don’t understand one thing. Though I was scared out of my mind, the people kept talking in front of me revealing their plans. (Yes they were sitting in the back with me).They seem to think as if I don’t understand a thing. Why do think of us animals beneath them? We are just a species like them and probably more intelligent than them. But no, they have to assert their dominance over us. They have to believe that they are better than ever single soul on this planet.Then this truck stopped. My fears escalated quickly on thinking what they were going to do with me. I started screaming and they shushed me by HITTING ME! They really are evil- don’t you think so?Well, this was-as I feared- only the beginning. I feel I have a lot of things in store for me. I am scared and have no idea whether it will be good..” This, I must say, is what I have been able to acquire from a fellow monkey. Yes, now, you may be wondering- how did I understand what the monkey was saying? Well, I just did. The chap is awesome. He is sleeping now. When he wakes up I will be continuing his interview.
- A work of fiction