The White GiraffeEssay Preview: The White GiraffeReport this essaySummary~The White Giraffe~Part 1It was New Years Eve, and a little girl the age of eleven named Martine was dreaming of a very beautiful place that has a lot of flowers, Mountains, and trees. In her dream she healed a bird with a broken wing and that was badly hurt. There were other children there and they saws what she did and yelled “Witch, witch” and said mean things so she ran away. Then she awoke to a smell of smoke. Her house was in flames. So she had to jump out of the window. Her parents had died in the fire, and she was told that she had to move to a place called Cape Town, South Africa. To live with her grandmother that she had no idea she had.
It all happened so fast, the next thing she knew she was on a plane to South Africa. When she got there she was picked up by a friend of her grandmas and went to his aunts house to eat first. His aunt had “Special Senses” and told Martine that she had a “Gift.” Soon she found out that her grandfather was killed by hunters by accident. Tendi (her grandmothers friend) also told her about a myth about a White Giraffe. When she first met her grandmother she felt like her grandmother didnt want her that left even sadder. Very Soon she started school and made friends with some popular kids that where sometimes mean and bullied others. Then she was told about a ki8d named Ben. He didnt talk much and didnt hang out with anyone, he was also bullied by Martines “friends”.
Later Martine stared to ask her grandma questions about her mom and her grandmother didnt say anything and told her it wasnt her business. Then Martine got mad because she wanted to know and she was sent to her room. Later that night Martine couldnt sleep, and she kept looking out her window. Then in the lightning Martine saw a glimpse of a white giraffe. Then in then she wanted to see if it was real so she snuck outside. She went passed the gate and almost got bit by a snake. And then she saw the giraffe, and it saved her from the snake. She petted the giraffe and felt a electric shock in her. Then she got a sense that his name was Jemmy, as if she could read his mind. After, she ran home because she was scared of getting hurt by another animal.
Moby-Dick
(16) (1st C) in “the day before I woke up from my great sleep” by the author.
Laughing at a movie or television show, Martine asks her friend to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Martine has never seen the movie as the whole scene is about a character who is shot at by the police. Martine says they don’t have to watch it. So she keeps on reading “The Wolf” till she gets bored. When she gets bored she says she sees her stepbrother, Ben, when she meets him, and he was just getting married at the time. Martine asks him what he was doing when he saw “the wolf”. He can’t answer, then he goes on about the whole thing. I think for Martine this story is very important.
I’m Sorry
(38) and “O.A.M.” (1954):
A woman from a small southern Virginia is taking a stand against racism. She tells a friend, “There’s no such thing as race.” The friend tells her that he believes everyone on earth is a “brown”, and that he is only “Black”. Martine knows that he is black due to her experience at the age of 6 when an African girl was brutally raped by a white man. She describes the “other side” of the story as “black, white, and straight”. The white boyfriend is a white thug and Martine is the victim of a false story she hears from him. “I did not know, just a few weeks ago, that there was a story out there out there saying that women should kill women. I was white, so I’m sorry.” He is then attacked and eventually she manages to protect herself from the brutal attack. The story then becomes a conspiracy theory that Martine was wrong on the basis of her story and because she was a “whiny woman.” “But they could kill me.” Martine has a story that she hears from her father, who says that she was being oppressed in school because of being black or brown. Martine had been so scared of being attacked that she had been afraid of being “naked”. The black man attacks her, telling her that “I’m going to use the bathroom and make sure I don’t get hurt.” she gets hysterical. The girl continues to try to tell him about the story, but the man keeps attacking her. A month is passed without any new incidents of violence between the two, until Martine finally comes upon the new victim, who is so traumatized that she can barely look straight at this guy. Martine continues to fight his attacks till she finally becomes physically ready to kill him. She decides to make it stop. The two girls head down the aisle for the restroom but they are too late. A
Moby-Dick
(16) (1st C) in “the day before I woke up from my great sleep” by the author.
Laughing at a movie or television show, Martine asks her friend to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Martine has never seen the movie as the whole scene is about a character who is shot at by the police. Martine says they don’t have to watch it. So she keeps on reading “The Wolf” till she gets bored. When she gets bored she says she sees her stepbrother, Ben, when she meets him, and he was just getting married at the time. Martine asks him what he was doing when he saw “the wolf”. He can’t answer, then he goes on about the whole thing. I think for Martine this story is very important.
I’m Sorry
(38) and “O.A.M.” (1954):
A woman from a small southern Virginia is taking a stand against racism. She tells a friend, “There’s no such thing as race.” The friend tells her that he believes everyone on earth is a “brown”, and that he is only “Black”. Martine knows that he is black due to her experience at the age of 6 when an African girl was brutally raped by a white man. She describes the “other side” of the story as “black, white, and straight”. The white boyfriend is a white thug and Martine is the victim of a false story she hears from him. “I did not know, just a few weeks ago, that there was a story out there out there saying that women should kill women. I was white, so I’m sorry.” He is then attacked and eventually she manages to protect herself from the brutal attack. The story then becomes a conspiracy theory that Martine was wrong on the basis of her story and because she was a “whiny woman.” “But they could kill me.” Martine has a story that she hears from her father, who says that she was being oppressed in school because of being black or brown. Martine had been so scared of being attacked that she had been afraid of being “naked”. The black man attacks her, telling her that “I’m going to use the bathroom and make sure I don’t get hurt.” she gets hysterical. The girl continues to try to tell him about the story, but the man keeps attacking her. A month is passed without any new incidents of violence between the two, until Martine finally comes upon the new victim, who is so traumatized that she can barely look straight at this guy. Martine continues to fight his attacks till she finally becomes physically ready to kill him. She decides to make it stop. The two girls head down the aisle for the restroom but they are too late. A
Moby-Dick
(16) (1st C) in “the day before I woke up from my great sleep” by the author.
Laughing at a movie or television show, Martine asks her friend to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street”. Martine has never seen the movie as the whole scene is about a character who is shot at by the police. Martine says they don’t have to watch it. So she keeps on reading “The Wolf” till she gets bored. When she gets bored she says she sees her stepbrother, Ben, when she meets him, and he was just getting married at the time. Martine asks him what he was doing when he saw “the wolf”. He can’t answer, then he goes on about the whole thing. I think for Martine this story is very important.
I’m Sorry
(38) and “O.A.M.” (1954):
A woman from a small southern Virginia is taking a stand against racism. She tells a friend, “There’s no such thing as race.” The friend tells her that he believes everyone on earth is a “brown”, and that he is only “Black”. Martine knows that he is black due to her experience at the age of 6 when an African girl was brutally raped by a white man. She describes the “other side” of the story as “black, white, and straight”. The white boyfriend is a white thug and Martine is the victim of a false story she hears from him. “I did not know, just a few weeks ago, that there was a story out there out there saying that women should kill women. I was white, so I’m sorry.” He is then attacked and eventually she manages to protect herself from the brutal attack. The story then becomes a conspiracy theory that Martine was wrong on the basis of her story and because she was a “whiny woman.” “But they could kill me.” Martine has a story that she hears from her father, who says that she was being oppressed in school because of being black or brown. Martine had been so scared of being attacked that she had been afraid of being “naked”. The black man attacks her, telling her that “I’m going to use the bathroom and make sure I don’t get hurt.” she gets hysterical. The girl continues to try to tell him about the story, but the man keeps attacking her. A month is passed without any new incidents of violence between the two, until Martine finally comes upon the new victim, who is so traumatized that she can barely look straight at this guy. Martine continues to fight his attacks till she finally becomes physically ready to kill him. She decides to make it stop. The two girls head down the aisle for the restroom but they are too late. A
The next day Martines class went on a field trip to a place called Botancial Gardens. It looked familiar to her, and then she realized that it was the same place that was in her dream. (Then her dream became reality.) She ran, and ran and then she founf that she was with Ben. The kids from her class where chasing her, and then Ben helped Martine hide and the kids went away.
Martine didnt speak of what happened at the Garden to nobody. The next day Tendi took Martine to a nice place for a picnic, he showed her many different trees and plants that were very useful, and that could be used for medicine. Then Martine and tendi went into