Week 2 Story: The Clown
Marty was just your average 10th grade boy. He loved sports, movies and video games. His favorite hobby though was reading. He had just gotten into horror books. The first one he read was IT by Stephen King. It was really creepy, but Marty knew he would never get over his fear of clowns if he hid from them forever. Unfortunately, for Marty the book did nothing but scare him more. Every night Marty had to walk his dog as one of his chores or else he would not get a car for his 16th birthday. When he was walking his dog he saw something out of the corner of his eye. It was a figure hiding in the trees. He looked and for sure it had to have been a clown! The white makeup, the red honky nose and the creepy eyes gave it away in an instant. Marty sprinted home with his dog gleefully running alongside him with no idea anything bad was happening. As soon as Marty was in the safety of his own home he quickly got onto Twitter and sent out a tweet of what he had seen. Within minuets he has thousands of retweets. People in his town were hysteric scared of this killer clown. Moms were afraid to let their children go outside and no one was allowed to go alone. The uproar caused the sheriff to come to Marty's, so that Marty could lead the sheriff to the original spot where he saw the clown. When the sheriff got a timid Marty to show him the spot, all the sheriff could do was chuckle. Marty's mind had played tricks on him all that was there was some balloons. Some white and some red. The sheriff told Marty not to worry that all was safe in their small town.
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Author's Notes: When I first read the Jataka Tales story all I could think of is how something small on twitter will get blown into such a massive ordeal. Just as the thought of the world was on the mind of the rabbit so too was the thought of clowns on Marty's mind. Both characters caused mass hysteria and needed and authoritative figure to show them what was actually happening. I changed the animals running to people retweeting the tweet. I also changed the lion to the sheriff.
Bibliography: Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt
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| My story was inspired by the killer clown event on twitter back in 2016. |
Author's Notes: When I first read the Jataka Tales story all I could think of is how something small on twitter will get blown into such a massive ordeal. Just as the thought of the world was on the mind of the rabbit so too was the thought of clowns on Marty's mind. Both characters caused mass hysteria and needed and authoritative figure to show them what was actually happening. I changed the animals running to people retweeting the tweet. I also changed the lion to the sheriff.
Bibliography: Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt
Hi Alex,
ReplyDeleteI love your modern take on the original story. It really plays on the viral culture of twitter. I, too, am afraid of clowns thanks to the movie Poltergeist. I like that your story was fast pace and easy to read. The sue of the Adam Sandler's picture made me laugh. The tweet also made me laugh. I cannot believe the killer clown incident was in 2016. It seemed so recent and yet so long ago. Anyway, great job on the story.
WOW what a twist! I definitely get Marty's POV (point-of-view) though! Have you ever woken up and seen a chair or something in your room and think it's a person and get freaked out when you wake up?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of seeing things, I saw your picture of Adam Sandler that you had in your story that I saw. He is pretty funny. I like that it is 144p quality JPEG for that authentic feel.
Hey Alex! What a cool way to retell the story of "The Foolish, Timid Rabbit." I retold the same story but I was much more boring. I honestly didn't realize which story you were retelling until the very end which is kind of a cool way to write the story. In the end the story is quite similar but I didn't see the similarities until the end. I think the title of the story is supposed to be included in the bibliography, but I might be wrong.
ReplyDeleteHowdy Alex,
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the fact that you put a modern spin on the original story, but even more so I love how you talked about viral trends getting out of hand. I wrote about the Tide Pod challenge in my week 2 story. In the story, I understand that the sheriff probably came the same day as the incident, however, when I first read the story it seemed as though a few days had passed before the sheriff got involved, so my suggestion would be to maybe clear up the timing of the sheriffs involvement. Personally I hate reading off of screens, so another recommendation I have is to perhaps break the story up into paragraphs. I feel like when I have to read off of electronics, paragraphs make it not so over whelming. Overall, I thought the story was really great. I loved the fact that you used viral trends, and I have to say your story was way better than my viral trend story!