Journal 1

Long ago when the animals had just began to come to the deep jungle there was one animal that plagued all the other animals. The elephant was known to be a wise creature full of wisdom and had a honest heart but one little elephant began to tell lies to the others and as his lies grew bigger and bigger so did is trunk. The proud elephants did not original have such long trunks but as the wisdom and pride of knowledge grew the elephants began to lie to the other animals who looked up to the great elephants. The lies began with a little elephant named Oliver and as little Oliver walked to school he met up with his friends Leo the lion and Zoey the zebra. All the little animals traveled to school in the morning and sat down under the shade of the great tree. The elder turtle began to tell the class the story of how if someone in the great animal kingdom told a lie that their noses would begin to grow and the more that they lied the bigger and longer their nose would become. When the class was let out later that day the three friends headed to the water hole to splash around in the water after their long day. Oliver then told his friends that he did not believe what the elder turtle had said about lying and decided that it would be fun to try lying . Both Zoey and Leo told him not too but the little elephant did anyway. Nothing happened after is lie and he continued lying all the way home. When he came home that night he told his parents about elder turtle's story and how he had lied and nothing happened. The little elephant went to sleep that night with a strange feeling in his mind. The next morning the little elephant woke up with a tinkling in his face and when he got up to wash up for school Oliver stepped on a long gray colored thing that looked like a tree base and when he stepped on it Oliver felt a pain shoot through is already tingling face. Oliver quickly hurried down to the water hoping that his gray trunk that he was tripping on was not his nose. When Oliver came to the watering hole he found a empty spot by some tall grass to finally open his eyes and see what his new face looked like. Oliver saw that where his small nose used to was now a long and very large gray trunk that swung in all directions. He was so ashamed of his new nose that Oliver ran straight home and hide from everyone. Oliver's parents went looking for him and finally they found there son crying and all alone when Oliver looked at his parents he saw shock in their eyes. His parents were upset with Oliver that he had told so many lies but they did not punish the little elephant for he was so sad about his new trunk. His parents put their heads together to figure out a way to for the little elephant to feel better about his nose. They decided to lie and give themselves big trunks like his. The next day Oliver had to go to school and when he got up both his parents had big long trunks to and showed Oliver that he was not so bad. The little elephant learned that with this new nose he could reach high branches, spray water on himself, and move big logs in his way. The little elephant turned his lies into a useful tool but Oliver was teased by the others animals. He was not mad at the others because they did not know how useful his trunk was. The little elephant's trunk made him unique and his friends accepted him for who he was an when his friends asked if he would lie again the little elephant told them never again. This is how the elephant got his trunk.