The Captive

This scene was written for the final exam by two students who were not that great at English. Yet this story is somehow so endearingly poetic and philosophical in its simplicity. I felt touched by it and liked it more than most others.

Scene: Squiggles, a lion, has been captured by a famous hunter and the two are en route back to the city zoo.

 Squiggles. How about looking around the city?

 - It's not like a grassland.

 What is different?

 - While the twilight in the grassland, I could see the horizon and the golden glow of the sunset on the wide sky. But city is filled black and gray. Even I can't see far because everything is blocked.

 But this landscape shows humans' power. We conquered vast nature! And it made me to catch you, Squiggles, isn't it?

 - Yeah. I was caught by my prey! It is a real disgrace.

 The zoo is almost coming. If you rebel and hurt a human, your family will be died. Do you want it?

 - For my family, I won't fight. I am base fellow.