Pearl Prequel Essay, Research Paper

It was a dark and stormy night … no that?s not it. It

was a beautiful sunny day … not it either. Could it be uhh… On

that rainy day when the sea would not quit, the sky growled

and men shuttered in their huts. That?s it !! Well now that I seem

to temporarily regained my memory Ill tell you the story of that

horrible season of the oyster conference. What?s that you don?t

know what the oyster conference is! You see it is a time when

the oysters of the world gather together in their respective

clans and decide who shall carry the pearl of power. These

pearls are no ordinary pearls. They were not made by an oyster

but were forged by the pillar. This pillar was the giver of power

before the pestilence of man arrived. Now the pillar does not

exist due to the carelessness of man. To keep order among the

oysters they gathered all the pearls forged by the pillar and

cursed them so that if man found one in the leader oyster it

would destroy the finder and find its way back to the sea.

This conference I told you about is a great as well as

horrible experience for all the oysters. Triumph and defeat lurks

around all corners. The contending oysters must run the test and

those standing at the end must do it again until one oyster

stands. This was the first time in history that more than three tests

had to be run. It came down to Chuck the clan favorite and

Tinagel the outcast. Finally with a little cheating and a lot of

dishonesty Chuck took the pearl to gain its power till the

coming year when he would relinquish control of the pearl.

Tintagel knew this fact but was jealous and devised a plan to

steal the pearl by poisoning Chuck. The next few days Tintagel

spent carefully gathering all the equipment and materials he?d

need to complete his plan. Then after his materials were

gathered he mixed and organized them in perfect blend. He

had them delivered to Chuck and unknowingly took the poison.

There was but a single fact overlooked by Tintagel and that

was the power of the pearl. Instead of killing Chuck it made him

diseased and mentally insane. He starts to disconnect himself

from reality. Oysters begin to fear him. Perturbed by what he

has done Tintagel leaves the colony which means certain

death and is never heard from again. Meanwhile back at the

farm ma?s killin off da injuns OOPS there I go again just a sec.

KAY…. back to our regularly scheduled story. Chuck ends up all

alone. By the end of his life no goes near him and no one will

until his year is up. What?s that another man to pick us up an

mutilate us oysters. We never did a thing to you before. Why.

The clan of oysters gather in their hiding spots but Chuck is just

sitting there. The clan tries to war him but its too late and a few

minutes later his sorry carcass is discarded back to the sea. The

PEARL is missing. The clan soon is discomforted by this

knowledge and wonder if the curse is true. Fast Forward to the

end of the Pearl by that boring guy who people think is great

because a few over-educated chuckle heads say so(john

stienbeck). The oysters are still wondering about how to get the

pearl back when Poof there it is in their midst. No one asks any

questions and the pearl is kept buried until Chucks term is

finished and his successor is found. Okay so it wasn?t much of a

story but hey this is just a start. I got no moral or even a thrill out

of writing it but hey it was defiantly a writing experience not to

be missed. It taught me to stick with it even if you didn?t want to

do the project in any remote way. I hope you found my writing

style to your liking and subscribe for future installments of

prequels to boring books.