by Laura Lai/Uncategorized
Jeremy
Hunt and Boris Johnson are competing to become the next British PM. They both
‘threaten’ the Britons with Brexit. Some Britons believe this threat, some
others don’t, some others don’t know what to believe… . But yesterday, the 4th
of July 2019, as I was listening Radio LBC ('Leading Britain's Conversation) – as I regularly do, due to the diversity of
opinions and multitude of thoughts one can hear in a 1-hour show – I heard that Jeremy Hunt took
a short break from Brexit discourse and focused on hunting foxes with dogs as
being part of Britain’s heritage and countryside. Thanks to the LBC I was inspired
to make this creative writing exercise by adapting a fable of Aesop ‘The
Shepherd Boy and the Wolf’ that I have in French, but a very good version in
English I found on the website of the Library of the Congress.
THE SHEPHERD BOYS AND THE 'BREXIT' WOLF[i]
Jeremy and his cousin Boris were
two politicians who shepherded a flock of sheep near a village in the beautiful
Britain’s countryside. As life in the countryside and with the sheep was sometimes
quite dull, one of the two shepherd boys, Jeremy, thought of a plan to amuse
themselves. One day, at the end of March, they run to the village shouting ‘Wolf!
Wolf! Help!’ And as expected the villagers dropped their work to come and save
the flock of sheep from the wolf. The boys amused themselves for weeks, even
months. And at the end June, they tried this farce again: they run towards the
village shouting again as loud as they could ‘Wolf! Wolf!’And the villagers
gathered again to protect the whole flock of sheep from the bad wolf.
But one chili and raining
evening, at the end of October, the wolf truly came. The shepherd boys were
terribly frightened to see the wolf. It was huge and black, had scary claws and
a frightful look in his eyes. This was the most terrible of all wolfs, as he
was from the no-deal breed. In terror the boys run again towards the village
and shouted ‘Heeelp! The Brexit wolf! Please heeelp! The Brexit wolf! The
villagers heard the two shepherds shouting, but as they were already fouled
twice by their fake news, they didn’t come. And the Brexit wolf became the shepherd
of the flock of sheep.
The
moral: People don’t believe the politicians not even when they speak the truth.
[i] If
any of the characters feels offended by this creative writing exercise, I would
like to apologize in advance.
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