Creative Writing: The Chocolah Jungle
Stubbles
Deep within the Chocolah Jungle lies a community of chimpanzees. The first time the small chimp Lulu opened her eyes and looked up, she saw her smiling mother. Her short brown hair was swaying in the soft breeze. Next to her mother was her father smiling as well but, with a hint of sadness in his eyes. She reached up her tiny hand already curious about the cause of his troubled look. She was distracted by a whoop of a chimp swinging past in the trees and barely caught a glimpse of its long brown hair hanging from the body. Lulu redirected her hand toward the jungle and her mother set it down softly. Lulu yanked it back and ran toward a nearby tree and her father gently carried her back to their ground nest. Lulu was uncomfortable …show more content…
The families that were allowed to climb in the trees and swing freely in the vines had long brown hair, while her family and the other ground families had short brown hair. If any of the ground chimps, or “stubbles,” as the long-haired chimps called them, climbed in the trees, they would be banished from the Chocolah Jungle.
One day when her dad was out at one of his secret meetings, Lulu was grooming her new baby brother and asked her mother, “Why does having short hair stop me from being able to climb in the trees?”
Lulu’s mother was about to reply when a rough voice cut in sending prickles down Lulu’s spine. The long-haired chimp, Drob, answered instead, “”Cause that’s just not the way it works!”
“Some chimps are just better than others!” Drob’s younger brother chimed in.
Things continued like this for a long while, until one day things changed. Her father came back from another secret meeting looking agitated as usual, but this time with a flare of excitement. Lulu asked what the meeting was about. Lulu was caught off guard when he actually answered. He pulled her close and whispered in her ear. He told her that the ground families were going to start a protest, with the help of some of the long-haired chimps from the north side of the jungle. As he described the rest of the plan, her eyes widened and she felt the flutter of butterflies in her
Deep within the Chocolah Jungle lies a community of chimpanzees. The first time the small chimp Lulu opened her eyes and looked up, she saw her smiling mother. Her short brown hair was swaying in the soft breeze. Next to her mother was her father smiling as well but, with a hint of sadness in his eyes. She reached up her tiny hand already curious about the cause of his troubled look. She was distracted by a whoop of a chimp swinging past in the trees and barely caught a glimpse of its long brown hair hanging from the body. Lulu redirected her hand toward the jungle and her mother set it down softly. Lulu yanked it back and ran toward a nearby tree and her father gently carried her back to their ground nest. Lulu was uncomfortable …show more content…
The families that were allowed to climb in the trees and swing freely in the vines had long brown hair, while her family and the other ground families had short brown hair. If any of the ground chimps, or “stubbles,” as the long-haired chimps called them, climbed in the trees, they would be banished from the Chocolah Jungle.
One day when her dad was out at one of his secret meetings, Lulu was grooming her new baby brother and asked her mother, “Why does having short hair stop me from being able to climb in the trees?”
Lulu’s mother was about to reply when a rough voice cut in sending prickles down Lulu’s spine. The long-haired chimp, Drob, answered instead, “”Cause that’s just not the way it works!”
“Some chimps are just better than others!” Drob’s younger brother chimed in.
Things continued like this for a long while, until one day things changed. Her father came back from another secret meeting looking agitated as usual, but this time with a flare of excitement. Lulu asked what the meeting was about. Lulu was caught off guard when he actually answered. He pulled her close and whispered in her ear. He told her that the ground families were going to start a protest, with the help of some of the long-haired chimps from the north side of the jungle. As he described the rest of the plan, her eyes widened and she felt the flutter of butterflies in her