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DRAGON & SELFISH
Kate is an explorer. One day, while in a cave she finds a egg. She takes this
egg and takes it home. She has a friend who is an egg scientist and shows
this egg to his friend called sally . Sally says"I have never seen an egg like
this before.
Kate becomes hopeless and never knows what this egg is until five days
later. According to Sally's studies, it is a dragon egg. Kate is very surprised.
Because dragons were extinct. Kate incubates this egg until it hatches, and a
dragon emerges from it. This dragon is a very rare species. He can both talk
and get along with people. Now Kate has a dragon and this dragon is not
dangerous at all. Kate doesn't know what to do and no one knows this
dragon except him. Kate is selfish in this event. She thinks many new things
can be discovered with this little animal so he wants to use it for her own
interests. Being selfish in this matter is a big mistake because the dragon is
too little now and it needs different people's care also. That's why one day
the dragon leaves where he is staying with Kate and starts traveling around
the world, meeting different people. They impress the dragon very much
and he becomes friends with people.One day the dragon appears on a
television broadcast.He says that if people were so selfish, they would not
harm anyone but themselves. This sentence was very impressive for
audience also for Kate.She understands her mistake.From now on,she
decides to be more friendly,kind and more generous.
Zeynep Naz EREN

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