Students Works

The Locust and the butterfly

One day in the grass there was a little locust looking for food when he collided with a dung-heap, near there it was a butterfly, which come to see the locust and laughed at him because he fell at her trick.

That butterfly also told the locust that he was the ugliest insect she ever had seen in her life.

The locust was so sad that he decided to do a journey, he was walking and walking until he got at the border were the keeper stopped him and told him that if he has no permission he cant pass the border because he’s not mature enough.

The little locust tell his story and the keeper laughs, but when the locust began to cry he thought that he was being bad with the little locust, so he let him pass, the locust was so happy that it gave him a gift, an amulet to protect him from curses.

The locust visited all the places and in one of them he found the butterfly, but now she was old and ugly. The only thing that the locust did, was to say hello to the butterfly, who recognized him and began to cry because now he (the locust) was cute and she ugly.

Moral: Don’t laugh at the defects of other people because they can become your own defects.

Teacher’s Comment:

A little masterpiece from a 1st year student. It has much resemblance with Aesop’s fables and traditional children tales. It questions our quest for beauty in a way that is both funny and thoughtful.