I haven't been on the lifeboat very long but I'm scared and miss my family dearly. I don't think I'll last long on this boat at all. I don't know where Richard Parker was my guess was on the floor of the lifeboat beneath the tarpaulin facing the zebra which I'm sure he has killed by now. I got closer to the tarpaulin and looked over it and i saw that the zebra was still alive. It was laying near where it had fallen but its stomach was still panting and its eyes were still moving quickly very panic like. It had only badly broken its back leg. I was shocked Richard Parker had not yet killed the zebra. Then I realized why he didn't kill the zebra yet. There was one more person left on the boat that gave me the willies. It was a spotted hyena, there wasn't room for both the hyena and a tiger in such a small space. He must have fallen off the tarpaulin and drowned. I realized something else: the hyena was the reason those sailors had thrown me into the lifeboat. They weren't trying to save my life. They were hoping that the hyena would attack me and that somehow I would get rid of it and make the boat safe for them.
No comments:
Post a Comment