Carrots,celery,tomato,lettuce and cucumbers were flying across the room.Chop chop chop, slice slice slice, grate grate grate.Another day eating piles upon piles of vegetables.
It wasn't long ago that we had the choice to eat whatever we wanted but all of a sudden takeaways started to shut down, and meat was off the menu. The government decided that everybody in New Zealand had to become a vegetarian. This was to make the animals happy.
Animals hated being hunted. The cows, sheep, lamb, pigs, ducks, and chickens said that it couldn't happen anymore. They protested from day one trying to stop people from eating them. It was going to be good for the environment too, well thats what they said.
Humans all over our country had to start to think about what vegetarian meals they could make. The supermarkets were being raided by people trying to buy vegetables before they ran out. People were growing their own garden like never before and it felt like vegetables were everywhere and were now becoming everyone's favourites.
Children started to learn more and about vegetables and less about animals and other subjects in school and we started to have gardening classes which were compulsory for everyone to learn how to grown their own vegetables.
We ate so many vegetables that one day a little baby started to turn orange from eating so much pumpkin and carrots. It wasn't long before all of the babies in New Zealand started to look this way. Children started to turn bright red from eating tomatoes non stop because they were sweet and tasted a tiny bit like lollies. Adults turned green because they ate so much lettuce, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. We thought it was crazy. One mum had lettuce growing as her hair. What was happening?
Not long later everyone in New Zealand was a vegetable.
The End
Haha what a neat little story! I love the imagination in your stories Grace! You are definitely becoming a great writer!
ReplyDeleteLots of positives in your writing, well done for:
- Explaining why people suddenly turned vegetarian (because of protesting animals and government orders), this makes your story believable
- Giving lots of detail about how this problem affected different characters
- For linking your story to a real world problem. Even though your story is very funny, it still makes the readers think about the lives of animals and the importance of looking after the environment.
- For using repetition "chop, chop, chop" for effect. It makes it very clear that everyone is turning vegetarian.
A next step for you could be using similes/ metaphors, e.g. "The adults turned as green as the head of a lettuce"/ The children were glowing tomatoes, their faces puffy and red.
You can also try using speech marks, e.g. "It's time for a moooooove! We hate being hunted," protested the cows.