John Yowan
Honors English 11 Hour 3
Mr. Coate
The Trees
One day long ago Artemis was hunting deer in the fields of southern Greece with her twin brother Apollo. After killing a few deer with their mighty bows and arrows they went to the sacred pool to relax and take a break from the hunt.
As they walked Artemis became mad thinking that hunting had become too easy and she wanted a new challenge. “Apollo, how should I make hunting more of a challenge for us and the other gods?” she asked looking over at him. “I would think it would be challenging if you had something to hide the animals and to give them shelter from the elements and from hunters.” Apollo answered as they walked. Artemis looked confused “What do you think would protect the animals? A wall? Higher grass? More rocks?” Artemis asked trying to figure out what Apollo met. “No, No,” Apollo said “Whatever it is there has to be a lot of them everywhere, they have to skinny at the bottom and thicker at the top so sun cannot reach the ground.” Artemis looked even more confused now. “I do not understand you but I will do as you suggest.
After relaxing at the sacred poor Apollo left and Artemis thought more and more about what Apollo suggested. How would she make something like that she thought as she walked around. Then a thought came into her head, what if she made the thing a plant? She looked around and then took grass from then ground, she then made it into leaves, and next she made wood using the dirt from the ground. She then connected them together and made a very tall, dark green thing with a thick, brown stem that came right out of the ground as if it were part of the Earth.
After that she made them all around the sacred pool, then she scattered them all across the land, she was so happy with her new creation that she did not take notice in the fact that she was beginning to fill the Earth, everywhere she looked there was one of them. When she was done she sat down by the pool at marveled at her creation. “I will call them trees.” She said to herself as she looked at one.