His Father, Dekin senior was the head of a global realestate campany called Real Sales and as such their family was very rich. Dekin, being the only child, was very spoilt.
Dekin senior's father had been an army General, a racist man who had taught his son from the youngest age to look down apon other races and cultures as inferior.
Greg was stout with glasses, acne and greasy hair, he hated sports and although he had never shown any symptoms he complained of severe asthma which prevented him from participating in any physical activities.
He was not greatly liked at school, he had a tendency to pick on younger students and suck up to the teachers.
The only time that Greg was talked to by any of the other students was when he was next to Dekin, whom he followed almost religiously. Dekin allowed this only because Greg would do his homework in return for his false freindship.
Together Dekin and Greg led a small gang of boys who called themselves the Ventriliquists.
Homer joined the school in Greg and Dekin's year level. He was Greek and shy but quietly brilliant and set apart from the other students by the fact that he didn't care much for Dekin's wealth and prestige nor did he stand for Greg's bullying mostly he just left them alone. Dekin hated Homer and so Greg did too.
Dekin was known as a ladies man and it was commonly known that he always got whatever girl he wanted, in year 10 he asked out a girl named Jenah and for the first time in Dekin's life a girl said no. He had never been so angry in his life but he became angrier still when he discovered that Homer had asked Jenah out and she had said yes.
Dekin had never really liked Jenah; he had simply wanted her to prove that no one could say no to him, but he used her as an excuse to get back at Homer; spreading rumors that good-for-nothing Homer had stolen her from him. Dekin, Greg and the Ventriliquists followed Homer back to his house after school with the intention of egging it. A few of the gang members didn't want to egg Homer's house but the others convinced them: if they didn't then they would be acting disloyal to the gang.
When they arrived Dekin ordered the ventriliquists to open with a fire of eggs; Dekin didn't throw any eggs, he didn't want to get in trouble. Greg also didn't throw any eggs but he handed them to the Ventriliquists.
After a few minutes (and a few eggs) some of the Ventriliquists began to have doubts, they didn't want to be caught by the police and some of them had no reason to dislike Homer in the first place. But Dekin and Greg convinced them that they didn't like Homer at all, that he had done something against them and after a while a few members of the ventriliquists believed them. Once they had run out of eggs Dekin ordered Greg to open the flour. At this many of the ventriliquists decided to leave, they didn't see the point; what was Dekin trying to achieve? Others told Dekin to stop and then left aswell. But a few Ventriliquist members remained including Greg.
When Greg arrived at home that night his parents were waiting for him. Some of the parents of the other members of the Ventriliquists had told Greg's parents what had happened and they were very angry. Greg was grounded and forbidden from seeing Dekin again.
When Dekin arrived home his parents were not mad, calmly they explained to him they were getting a divorce. Dekin had been so busy trying to get back at Homer her hadn't even noticed what was going on in his own house.
1 comment:
I think your allegory works really well - I like the way you have used a story of schoolyard bullying to exemplify world events. Your language choices have kept the reader firmly in the plot of the story while allowing us to draw the wider conclusions about world leaders. I like the way you manage to tie up all the ideas you want to convey about your topic without breaking the reality of the story you are telling.
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