Week 5 Story: Tornado, Hurricane and Earthquake Walk Into a Bar
One night, Tornado, Hurricane and Earthquake all decided to go to a bar together. They loved going out to get drinks together and wanted to catch up on their past week since they hadn't gotten a chance to see each other much with how busy they'd all been. They were siblings, and their mother was Mother Nature, of course. She didn't go along with them to the bar, and decided to stay home instead - but she figured she'd see them later.
Tornado, Hurricane and Earthquake were all wild and didn't care what people thought of them. They would go out and drink lots of drinks and become intoxicated and make fools of themselves, and Mother Nature would always be upset with them when they got home. They would wake her and the neighbors up with their yelling, and it also worried her to see them get sick from alcohol from all their drinking.
After hours at the bar, they decided to go home. Tornado had plenty of beers, Hurricane had lots of Piña Coladas, and Earthquake had a half a dozen Cosmopolitans. They stumbled and laughed and when they walked in the house, Mother Nature went to their rooms to see what they were doing. She was not pleased with what she saw and heard... not only did they make a huge mess but they were even gossiping about global warming.
That night, she had finally had enough. She decided that she was going to punish every single one of them. They needed to be more responsible.
"I am fed up with you three. You need to take responsibility. Tornado, you shall always be a mess and whisk everything up in your path. Hurricane, you will destroy everything in yours. And Earthquake - you will shake the world. You are all natural disasters," she scolded.
And that is why, to this day, the Tornado, the Hurricane, and the Earthquake are all such terrible weather disasters.
Author's Note: This story is based on How Sun, Moon and Wind Went Out to Dinner. In this story, they all went to dinner together and were the children of one of the far Stars in the sky. The Sun and Wind were greedy and selfish, and ate the food themselves, without taking any home for their mom - but Moon didn't forget about her. When they got home, their mom asked the Sun, then Wind if they brought food home for her. Finally, Moon gave her the food. Because of this, Star cursed Sun and made her rays scorching hot so no one could ever touch her again. Then, Star turned to Wind and said you will always be avoided and shrivel living things." And then of course, the opposite happened for Moon - who is calm and glowing always today. I changed the characters and the plot but I liked how it was the explanation to why things are the way they are today so I tried to come up with my own reasons!
Bibliography: How Sun, Moon and Wind Went Out to Dinner in Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
Tornado, Hurricane and Earthquake were all wild and didn't care what people thought of them. They would go out and drink lots of drinks and become intoxicated and make fools of themselves, and Mother Nature would always be upset with them when they got home. They would wake her and the neighbors up with their yelling, and it also worried her to see them get sick from alcohol from all their drinking.
After hours at the bar, they decided to go home. Tornado had plenty of beers, Hurricane had lots of Piña Coladas, and Earthquake had a half a dozen Cosmopolitans. They stumbled and laughed and when they walked in the house, Mother Nature went to their rooms to see what they were doing. She was not pleased with what she saw and heard... not only did they make a huge mess but they were even gossiping about global warming.
That night, she had finally had enough. She decided that she was going to punish every single one of them. They needed to be more responsible.
"I am fed up with you three. You need to take responsibility. Tornado, you shall always be a mess and whisk everything up in your path. Hurricane, you will destroy everything in yours. And Earthquake - you will shake the world. You are all natural disasters," she scolded.
And that is why, to this day, the Tornado, the Hurricane, and the Earthquake are all such terrible weather disasters.
Photo of a tornado by Brad Goddard. Link here
Author's Note: This story is based on How Sun, Moon and Wind Went Out to Dinner. In this story, they all went to dinner together and were the children of one of the far Stars in the sky. The Sun and Wind were greedy and selfish, and ate the food themselves, without taking any home for their mom - but Moon didn't forget about her. When they got home, their mom asked the Sun, then Wind if they brought food home for her. Finally, Moon gave her the food. Because of this, Star cursed Sun and made her rays scorching hot so no one could ever touch her again. Then, Star turned to Wind and said you will always be avoided and shrivel living things." And then of course, the opposite happened for Moon - who is calm and glowing always today. I changed the characters and the plot but I liked how it was the explanation to why things are the way they are today so I tried to come up with my own reasons!
Bibliography: How Sun, Moon and Wind Went Out to Dinner in Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
Hi there!
ReplyDeleteI liked how you were able to keep your retelling close to the original story. Towards the end of the story, you included a humorous note. "They were even gossiping about global warming." That was a clever add to the story! The story had great elements of details and portrayed the characters according to their effect on nature. Nice story!
Hi Lauren,
ReplyDeleteGreat story! I liked how you changed the characters of the story to natural disasters and had them go to a bar. I thought that was pretty creative. The idea of them having human personas is pretty comical. I thought it was especially funny envisioning them drinking beer, Pina Coladas, and Cosmopolitans, and talking about global warming.
At the end of the story, it mentions that mother nature had finally had enough. Did that mean they went out and drank at the bar many times before? Why was Mother Nature so upset when they were in their room? Why did she decide on such a harsh punishment to make them natural disasters for the rest of their lives?
How about instead of Mother Nature converting them to natural disasters, they create a natural disaster whenever things don't go their way and they get in a bad mood? Perhaps they are playing a board game for the rest of eternity and whenever one of them loses or gets mad is when they take their frustrations out on the world?
Hi Lauren! This was such a fun story! I am a huge fan of origin stories that give a fictional background to real phenomena. I love how you assigned specific drinks to specific characters because each of them are a little bit different. Your pacing was also really great. As soon as I started getting tired of reading about them at the bar, you changed the setting. Really great job!
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ReplyDeleteI loved this story. It was very easy to follow, and your personification of all three natural disasters was amazing. I particularly loved your satirical line about modern-day environmental issues when you mentioned global warming. I thought it added some great humor to the original story's general tone. Also, I loved how you gave the story a more youthful style by using the bar instead of the dinner setting. Awesome job!
Hi Lauren! I really liked the creativity of your story! The title definitely pulled me in and made me want to read it, but the story-line kept me interested for sure! I love the personification of these natural disasters and how you provided a funny background story to explain why natural disasters take place today. The idea of mother nature scolding them and punishing them forever because of bad behavior was a great idea. Awesome story!
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