Life as a slave

This place is disgusting. The smell of dead bodies, despair, tears and misery made me want to wretch, but if I do I only I have one hour to clean it up. Why am I here? Shoved into a crammed space with several other people made me feel uncomfortable. Most of them had chains around there: necks, chests, legs and arms, it was horrible! fetishes Finally, it was night time. The noise of groaning and moaning made me feel self-conscious. Also the space they gave us between about 7 people is not enough. It was pitch black and I thought that it would be quiet, but it was noisier than day time! People getting whipped and executed made me feel scared because it might happen to me.   Suddenly, we arrived at a mysterious location. I was blinded for a few minutes then I saw zombie like people stood next to me in chains. They all just looked like a bag of bones. It was the first time I saw actual day light since I came on the ship.

The sale!

Signal

Doors open

Rushing

Deafening

Poking

Arguing

Chaos

Money

Bargain hunters

Revenge

Grabbing

Weighed

Branded

Shouting

Numbers

SOLD!!!

 I’ve been at this plantation for over 5 years now separated from my family. Endless work on the sugar fields is killing me. I was whipped and dragged day in and day out. I must admit that it is better on the plantation than it is on the dirty, old ship. It is just quiet on the field except from the captain shouting and the people screaming from have been beaten. When is this torture going to end? It became night time once again and I began to fall asleep then memories of a story called kirikou started to float around my head.   I remember a story that one of my older family members used to tell me and that story was called kirikou the smart but small boy…   There was an evil lady named karaba, she was a wicked sorceress. The only reason why this evil woman is so foul is because many years ago she had a sinful thorn stabbed in her back. The thorn had some kind of poison liquid in it. She turned men into moving objects and they were called fetishes. Karaba hates children, despises women and dislikes men. The fetishes were the men that have been turned into objects; they all are just like minions. They serve karaba whenever she wants them day and night. If the fetishes don’t obey karaba she will kill them.karaba   Kirikou is a small boy who is very clever. He is very fearless and brave. Since he is small he can go anywhere without anyone seeing him, so he crept into karaba’s pyramid and took the jewels that karaba stole. Also karaba was looking for kirikou outside and kirikou was in a tree above her but she doesn’t know, then kirikou dropped down and bit the evil thorn out of karaba’s back. Suddenly the evil sorceress becomes nice and kind.   In the end the small but smart boy becomes tall. So karaba and kirikou get married and becomes a couple. This shows that determination and resilience always win. download By Jodie

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