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Literary

Journal

Ivan:

My Life

In a

Domain

Hi I am Ivan. I am a silverback gorilla. I live in Exit 8 night Stella tells me she will soon die and
Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. I work in a Circus. Mack is the she asks me to make a promise that I will
boss. I am the main attraction of the Circus. People come to see take care of Ruby and give her the life she
me every day. They call me Freeway Gorilla, The One and Only deserves. The next thing I know Stella is
Ivan and Mighty Silverback. gone. I tell Ruby a story to comfort her. I
Besides my domain there is Stella’s domain. Stella is an draw a picture of a Zoo and show it to Julia
elephant. At night Stella and I talk. I like Stella. She is a very hoping she can understand what I mean. It
good friend. Bob, a stray dog, also lives with me but he does not takes her a while but finally she figures out
work at the circus. Many people have tried to catch him but he what I mean. She puts the picture on the bill-
is too fast. board. Then a reporter from the news chan-
I used to be very famous at the circus but not anymore. nel comes and takes pictures of everything;
Visitors have slowed down. Mack doesn’t like this one bit. my domain, Ruby, Mack and the Claw Stick.
George, the cleaner, has a daughter named Julia. She accom- Then protesters start coming and we finally
panies George to work. Julia is an artist but George prefers her leave the circus and start staying in a zoo. I
doing her homework first. She can sit wherever she wants but don’t see Ruby though. One day I see Julia,
she always sits next to me. One day she gave me 2 crayons and her dad and Bob. It turns out Bob has start-
I started drawing. When Mack found out he started selling my ed living with Julia. Julia takes a picture out.
work at the gift shop. It was doing well. It is Ruby with other elephants. “See Stella!”
Then after some time people stopped buying my draw- I say, “Ruby is free!”
ings. Mack got worried. He said, “You are not cute anymore,
Ivan.” “They think you are sad and lonely.” One day Mack - Ava Gurung
brings a new animal for the circus. The new animal is Ruby. She
is a baby elephant. Ruby and Stella share a domain. Stella takes
good care of Ruby.
All the visitors start coming again but this time Ruby
gets all the attention. I don’t know how I feel about that. One