Grade 8, Habitat-61 Creative Hub
Far away in a quiet, artistic village there was a boy named Thabo. Thabo way a thirteen-year-old boy who was talented (gifted). He knew how to draw, sew, paint and create new things with old things. He was the reason his village was so artistic.
One day, as Thabo was drawing, sewing and painting, he had noticed something, that there was nothing creative to sew any more; the people in his village had enough clothes, and his drawings and paintings were all over their houses. “So where do I put all these things now?” Thabo said to himself. “There are a lot of people who still need your paintings, drawings and your sewn clothes,” said a voice in the bushes.
“Who is that?” said Thabo. “I am the person who is going to show you where to put those drawings and clothes,” said Lisa, the girl from the city, who had come to the village for some information on how the people in this village lived. Lisa was a fashion designer and a journalist, working for a big company. “What are you talking about?” asked Thabo, because he did not know Lisa and did not understand what was going on.
“You know you are such a talented boy…You would make such a great artist,” Lisa said. Thabo replied, shocked, “Artist! I may be talented but I have never thought about being an artist, and by the way, my life belongs to the village and my talent belongs to the king and the people of his palace.” Lisa was shocked that such a talented boy as Thabo had never thought about being an artist some day. “I can take your drawings, paintings and the clothes you make to the city where you can make money for your village, and your village will be known as a the Artistic Village.”
The boy didn’t listen to Lisa; he just put the things he used to create new paintings, and clothes, inside the house and went back to the village. Days went by as Lisa tried to convince Thabo about his special talent. Finally Thabo slept on it, and one morning Lisa held a meeting without the king’s permission. “Everyone here was born with his or her own special talent, so must we let the world recognise our talent.”
The villagers started to notice that the king was hiding their talents and it was wrong of him to do so, so they went to the king and complained, but the king kicked them out of the palace. So the villagers went to Lisa to beg for help. As for Lisa, she wanted to help the village people so much that she taught them how to advertise and export their goods, to show the world how talented they were. The villagers were recognised for their special talent and the king realised he was wrong and had made a mistake, and now the king was proud of Thabo.