Thursday, March 24, 2011

Sample 24

Sample 24
1 ‘Sigh… I don’t know why I am soooooo bored, I mean look! My father is the president; I should be in luxury, not to mention happiness.’ I was mumbling to myself late at night while listening to the radio as I had nothing else better to do. ‘I guess my life just needs some excitement.’
2 Just then, when I though this couldn’t get any worse than this, there was a disruptive signal interrupting the transmission. Come on… WORK!!! I’m missing the news! Voices were soon being sent through the radio, “Captain, I think we intercepted the signal, ability to communicate with the earthlings is stable.”
3 “Who are you? What is this? Where am I?” So many questions, I was in a state of shock.
4 “We are the rulers and army of the Eugopitanians, take your leader from your current location six thousand seven hundred and sixty-two meters due north, and eight hundred and eighty meters due east 2820 minutes later. Don’t be late, I repeat, DO NOT BE LATE.”
5 After the paralyzing message that caused me to petrify, I ran in the direction of my father in cold sweat. I ran to the door and reported that I had to see the president, but they replied with an unbelievable: “Sorry, Mr. Chann is a very busy man, please reserve an appointment and come back next time.” “But I’m his son!” “I heard that excuse before, now GET!”
6 I dragged my feet all the ways to my bedroom and started weeping, thinking, “what if they want world domination, what if they freeze us…”
7 The next morning, I got my GPS and went off to the place given by the aliens and informed my father I was going to hang out with my friends. At the time given, UFOs started appearing in the sky, the citizens were frozen to the core for a moment and screaming in the other.
8 The Eugopitanians took out their guns and started shooting multiple objects, turning them into stone. Seeing this, I sprinted of to my nearest friend’s house and banged on the door with all my might. He opened the door and without even as much as a gesture, dashed in, locked the door and closed all curtains.
9 He asked: “What’s the hurry? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
10 “Aliens! Help!”
11 “ I’ve got to admit that pretty convincing, but you expect me to believe that…” Before he could finish, I opened the curtains. “Ahhhhh! A, Al, ALIEN!!!”
12 We both stared through the window surprised, why didn’t they shoot us? Soon, we realized that they were shooting mostly butterflies, colorful objects, scents that tickle the nose and not shooting dull objects, moths and garbage. And we saw that this house was in a mess. “QUICK!!! Go get all our friends and ask them to bring anything they consider cute and cuddly!”
13 We covered ourselves in litter and went from house to house asking for help from others and soon were had an arsenal of people the help us fight. With all ourselves coated with litter, went out onto the battlefield, and started cornering the Eugopitanians one by one and attacking with our weapons of cute that vaporized them.
14 “Oh My God, are they really that powerful?” “Enough chit-chat, CHARGE!”
15 We went off and ambushed the aliens while gathering up more troops to fight, weakening their forces one at a time, and before my father even noticed, they retreated into space.
16 “Hey, but Solomon, what do we do with these statues?”
17 “Maybe, hey, pass me more soft toys.” I started rubbing on the statues and they returned back to normal.
18 So much for a boring life… (610)

28 comments:

  1. Para 2: 'Thought' instead of 'though'

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  2. Good description. NICE. Imaginative.
    Radios are a 1-way communication system, you cannot talk into the radio.
    Paragraph 5:
    should be GET away/lost etc.
    An alien invasion does not seem very likely though...

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  3. Overall, nice story plot. Good descriptions of objects and events.

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  4. Para 6:

    “what if they want world domination, what if they freeze us…”

    to

    “What if they want world domination, what if they freeze us…”

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  5. Matthew Wong Chun KitMarch 24, 2011 at 12:03 PM

    I think you should also include a part that tells everyone how the main character thought of using cut things as weapons against the Eugopitanians either at the end, or before asking his friend to get cute things.

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  6. Para 5: “Sorry, Mr. Chann is a very busy man, please reserve an appointment and come back next time.” “But I’m his son!” “I heard that excuse before, now GET!”


    Shouldn't everyone knew the son of the president...?

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  7. Very imaginative and nice plot.

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  8. The Settings and Context are unclear. This makes the story sound too abstract. More detailed descriptions and better Characterisation would be good.

    Para1 paints the narrator as a whiny/lazy brat. Development from para1-6 does not reveal who the narrator is/was.

    Was the narrator's father the President of the country/club/company? It's unclear.

    Avoid 'alien' related genres as they would usually not appeal to examiners who are trying to place a grade on the story (as the plot would not require much Logic then).

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  9. Overall, good plot.

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  10. Good try! Plot is good! Story on the overall is smooth.

    aA bit of spelling error. A bit rush from Para 11 to Para 12. Why did the aliens do not shoot them? Why were the other people shot when the author not shot?

    Somemore, a bit of contradiction and irrelevance between the colourfiul things and the cute and cuddly thnings.

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  11. A bit fake as in the aliens part.

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  12. What made you infer that the cute and cuddly things will defeat the aliens? What does shooting clourful objects and not shooting dull objects have to do with them being defeated by cute and cuddly things? You should say that when an alien saw a cuddly object, it got terrified and retreated.

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  13. You should not type the words in capital letters as this is an essay which a teacher will grade. You should use proper tense. Funny story though!

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  14. unrealistic since 'aliens' are appearing.

    but this is totally awesome piece of compo

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  15. How can you be president's son? There is not such thing as alien.

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  16. many grammatical errors==> pls be more careful

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  17. alien?? illogical. and why would they not know the president's son?

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  18. quite good! but yeah, i agree with JX

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  19. I found it hard to understand the story. Sudden change in environment. But overall, nice descriptions!

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  20. Aliens are not real so it is not good on the plot. Your imagination is very good, though! :)

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  21. If you were the president's son, why would you listen to the radio? You should be watching television or something like that.

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  22. Why don't the guards recognize you as the president's son? But it's an interesting story.

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  23. li wanqi the big bad boldMarch 25, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    awesome awesome awesome! just that aliens are appearing and what is "now GET!" ? Should be get out right?
    PLus the guards and your conversation are abit too unrealistic. The guards should umm, something like worship you. agree with huiling.

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  24. Interesting story about the 'ailens'? I agree with Hui Ling. Would the guards dare to be so bold and disallow you in, considering that you are a president's son? But interesting story, though.

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  25. Aliens are definitely not a good subject and is rather disturbing. Also, many tense and grammatical errors. Agrees with hui ling as it is illogical for the guards not to recgonize the president's son.

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  26. Overall, nice, imaginative story

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  27. If you say that the narrator was the President's son, shouldnt everyone know him? Also, just because the aliens only shoot colourful and bright things doesnt mean the aliens are will die when they see cute and cuddly things. Where did the inference come from? Good try, though. Quite interesting.

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  28. I could not understand the bit about cute and cuddly things? what's more, you cannot communicate with sb through a radio!!

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