Sunday, April 26, 2009

Zen Parable

Chue Meng Vang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
April 26
Freedom for Gold
There was a man named Red with an average life. He lacked any motivation in his life. Then one day while serfing the channels on the television he hears a report about missing gold. The gold disappeared near his area. He just shrugs and goes out for a walk. While jogging near the park he sees the police and several volunteeers sweeping the area. Then he sees his best friend named Blue walking towards him. They both talk about the news of the missing gold. His friend says he did see something unusual in the bushes several hundred meters west from the park. They both go to check it out.
When they both get there they see the bushes very misplaced. It looked as if a tornado hit, some of the leaves were scattered all over. They both decide to dig through the bushes. The man and his friend find something shining. They move some leaves and find a yellow bar. It was heavy, it was gold. They set it aside and keep looking. After digging around for about 3 hours they find several gold bars, about 40 of them. The man and his plot what to do next. They both decide to cover up the gold and return tomorrow with bags and a golf cart to retrieve the gold.
The next day Red walks to the site where he and Blue found the gold. Blue drove along with his golf cart. They both take some bags and fill them up with the gold. Then they drive it to Blue's house. Their they hide it in his basement for the time being. They discuss the rest of their plan about what to do. After talking about things for about an hour they decide to keep the gold hidden in Blue's basement for the time being until the cops stop searching. After about a week red comes over for his half of the gold. Blue is there and give Red his half. Then when Blue wasn't looking Red kills Blue. Then Red takes the gold and hides it away in an unknown place. A few days later Blue is found dead. Red is arrested and charged for murder and is locked away. Red is locked away for a long time, but he still has his gold hidden away and waiting for him.

2 comments:

Koumman Lee said...

you have some grammer mistakes that youu might need to look over

Anna said...

This parable is interesting. How nice of Red and Blue to share and fortunate for Red that he gets all the gold in the end! (well if he ever gets out of prison). Watch out for the tenses shifting between past and present.