Month: May 2017

 

The grass swayed in the wind. It’s yellow tint reflecting the warm glow of the sun. The cloudless sky, like an ocean of purity. And to add to this sense of serenity, a gazelle gently clips the grass. Soon the rest follow. The majestic herd crowds around a drinking pool. Once they finish, they gallop away. Their strides, a Ballerina’s dance. Their speech, a beautiful song. They are the leaders of this savannah, and with their power, they have done well.

This tranquil animal had been ruling the savannah for thousands of years, and nobody expected it to change. Throughout this time, the gazelles had established culture and equality throughout the lands. It was on one summer day when it all changed. The gazelles were huddled around the drinking pool, when a ship appeared on the rocky shore. Slowly, coyotes jumped onto the savanna. They were vicious, ruthless, and savage. Their growls struck fear into the hearts of the calves. They had one goal, one purpose: To conquer the savannah. To feed themselves. And in doing this, they destroyed the balance.

In a couple of months, they had massacred any gazelle that stood against them, and within a couple years, they had absolute control. The gazelle lived in fear and poverty, while the coyotes were living outrageously lavish lifestyles. The coyotes did what they wanted, whenever they wanted, wherever they wanted. If they were hungry, they would feed. Even though the gazelle vastly outnumbered the coyotes, there was still nothing they could do, and more coyotes arrived every day.

It was not for many decades that the Gazelles had any hope of freedom. Generations had passed, and it seemed that almost no one remembered the days before the coyotes. Then one day, a young gazelle asked a question: “Why do the coyotes get to rule over us? We are all animals. What makes us so different from them, that they have absolute control of us?”

This young gazelle was named Gandhi Gazelle, and he grew up to be the leader of the independence movement that got the gazelles’ their freedom. They organized peaceful protests against the coyotes, who were outraged at the idea of Gazelles having self-rule. Gandhi gazelle led strikes against having to buy things from the coyotes. The coyotes made water very expensive, and made it so that the gazelles had to buy water from them and that they were not allowed to get water from the drinking hole.

One day, Gandhi Gazelle organized the gazelles and they all started marching to the water hole to drink free water and from then on, the gazelles were able to drink all the water they wanted.

Gandhi Gazelle led many more strikes and marches. The coyotes tried to stop the rebellion by killing gazelles that wouldn’t listen. That just seemed to anger the gazelles more. The coyotes started to get very scared, because in a land far away, the coyotes homeland was getting attacked by wolves. Along with that, the gazelle were rebelling, and there was nothing the coyotes could do to stop them.

The coyotes needed the gazelles if they wanted to win the war. They needed the gazelles to help them transfer messages, because the wolves didn’t understand the language of the gazelles. The coyotes realized that there was no way that they could get the gazelles to help them fight for the coyotes’ freedom, while denying the gazelles theirs.

Finally, the coyotes made an agreement with the gazelles: In exchange for help in the fight against the wolves, the coyotes would give the gazelles their freedom back. The coyotes, with the help of the gazelles, ended up beating the wolves and in the end, both the coyotes and the gazelles were free.