T Kerfua’s Online Journal

I have blurred memories about something that happened to me six years ago. There was romours flying about my auntie’s neighbour’s pets.

In Canning Town,East London, is where my aunty lives. Around the corner is a average sized shop that has everything that you could wish for, almost like a supermarket, however you have to walk past a dark alleyway that has houses on each sides of it.

On 7th April 2012 11:18 PM I was craving for sweets so I went to the shops, forgetting about the alleyway. I was walking through the alleyway until I heard swift movements, but I thought it was wind so I carried on walking but I heard it again, even louder this time but with snake hissing. I stopped in my tracks and looked around. No snakes were around me. I sprinted towards the end but I tripped and grazed my knee but got up and ran again.

On the way back from the shop’s I was looking at every single door step to see if there was actually any reptiles. I start to hear the noises again. I shiver and walk slowly, shaking. Every step I take the noise gets louder, I started panicking with my legs shaker my and my heart beating faster than I thought… but there it was, two little girls dressed up as cactuses with a iPad outside of their house with snakes and lizzards on the screen.

The girls were dancing. Was I daydreaming? Did I expect too much? I thought someone owned a jungle in their house but it was a iPad instead? However the girls tablet died. And the sounds were still going on. I told them to come here but they tried to run into their house… It was too late. A snake had stopped them whilst other snakes wrapped themselves around their necks to suffocate them. There was no hope in me helping them. When they dropped dead to the ground lizzards came and started to trample all over them. The snakes started to eat the girls bit by bit starting from her legs. I ran as fast I could down the road in to my aunties house and locked the door and never spoke about this, until today.

‘Once I saw a customer, years ago, damaging books in mum and dad’s shop. Tearing pages out. Screwing them up. Shouting things I couldn’t understand.

Mum was crying. Dad was furious. So was I. When customers are unhappy they should ask for a refund, not go mental.

These men are just as bad. They’re hurting books cruelly and viciously and laughing about it.

Why?’

The book that they read couldn’t of been that bad to thrash the rest of them. Why is this world so cruel? Even in the orphanage those people with armbands were burning books for no reason at all.

‘Once I spent about 6 hours telling stories to Zelda, to keep her spirits up, to keep my spirits up, to keep our legs moving as we trudge through the rain towards the city.’

Physically their muscles were hurting a lot that they could of collapsed at any moment especially their leg muscles. Emotionally their hoping to see their mums and dads as soon as possible and mentally they are broken down because Zelda is 6 years old so when she is not with her parents she cries and has a tantrum and breakdown. Where as for Felix he is grown up son he knows a lot more and knows whats going on so he does not worry too much but mentally he wants to see his parents so he can be happy again. Unlike Zelda he has not seen them for 3 years and 8 months were Zelda has not seen her parents for a couple of days. They also might not recognise Felix as he has changed due to puberty and his voice will be very very different.

My favorite character from ‘Once’ is Felix because he is the main character. He is also very nieve because he acts childish and he doesn’t know anything going on in the real world because he has been trapped in a orphanage. When he finally escapes he finds out about the Nazi’s however he only thinks that they burn Jewish books. Then he finds out that they kill people because a stranger tells him. The stranger tells him because Felix was wondering where his parents went and why a different family is living in his house.

He is also my favorite character because he writes and tells a lot of stories and he has a bright imagination, his parents also loved books as they were Jewish booksellers. He was also very positive, if you told him something negative or he is wrong he will refuse to except it anfd carry on doing what he’s doing.