On the beaches of Oregon is a camp called Camp Purple Field. This is a wonderful summer camp that is constantly being used for its adventures and activities. It is for people of all ages, surprisingly, which is very uncommon for summer camps. They have groups ranging from 5-55. There are three people who were in charge of running it named Donny Travis, Asher Donald, and Jaiden Bartlet. They are all from extremely different backgrounds. Donny Travis comes from Texas and knows a lot about summer camps because there is usually one in each town in Texas. Asher came from Maine, the complete opposite side of the USA than Oregon. He knew a lot about beach activities but not so much about camps. Jaiden is from England where there were not very many overnight summer camps to be found in her area. She had taken this job as a way to remain in the USA and fell completely in love with camping. They are all extremely passionate about this job and will let nothing come in the way of providing people with an excellent camping experience. This was a highly successful because of an asset they possessed for almost 20 years. It was the biggest blob in the continental United States. People traveled from all over the country to come jump on this blob. Donny, Asher, and Jaiden were insanely protective over their blob. There is a neighboring camp that was mediocre in comparison to Camp Purple Field. This camp is called Camp Housecake. There is only one man in charge of this camp and his name is Trevor Lovefield. All he ever wanted in life was the steal the blob from Camp Purple Field.
A couple months ago, Trevor had enough of them stealing all of the camping grounds he set out a scheme to steal the blob. He decided he would have his kitchen staff go over to their camp pretending to need to borrow some supplies. After this he would go steal the key that was kept in a not so secret box in their office. There was a girl who worked in their office who had a small crush on him. He would use this to his advantage by distracting her. After he retrieved the key he would take his staff late at night and unlock the blob and float it away from the camp to his camp. He would next deflate the blob, give it a new paint job and say it was a gift to him and it had nothing to do with Camp Purple Field.
The plan is successful for the most part. One of the kitchen ladies was very scared and took a lot of convincing to go distract Donny, Jaiden, and Asher. He managed to bring the blob to his camp, only to not know how to take care of a blob this size. He ended up popping the blob and being left wasting time and not having the blob. Luckily for the staff at Camp Purple Lake, their anonymous blob maker was in the process of making a new one. Even though they had theirs stolen, they were able to get a new and improved one. A month after this happened Trevor’s camp went out of business.
Image Information: A picture of a blob which is what they fight over in my story taken from Snyder's Alaska Blog
Author's Note: I got the idea for this retelling from the cattle raid. It is based very loosely off of that story. Instead of stealing cattle, they are obviously trying to steal a blob from a neighboring camp. When I was brainstorming story ideas, I thought of the book Holes which is why I chose to do a camp setting.
Bibliography:
- Narayan, R. K. (1978). The Mahabharata.
Hahaha. Your story was really creative Jade! The first time I read this, I was insanely confused and had no idea what the "blob" was. But after the second time around and then looking at the picture, it all made sense! I really like how you based it around "Holes" and that you gave a mini background of each person that was running the camp. I also liked how you admitted to the other camp being successful with their silly plan, but Camp Purple Field already having a new blob being made. Your story was short and to the point. Loved it! Good job.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the premise of your story. I think for the reader's sake, you should consider integrating the original story towards the beginning instead of the end. One of the little typos I discovered while reading through your story was that you said "It was a highly successful which.." This can be easily fixed by just removing the "a". I loved the book and the movie Holes, and I thought that it was cool you used that as your inspiration for your creative spin on the cattle raid. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting idea for a story. I think you did a great job of drawing inspiration from the cattle raid story and creating you own work. Although there was no dialogue in your story, it read very well. I like how karma comes into play at the end of you story. Karma can't be avoided, even when stealing blobs!
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