Monologue Of Nathaniel Daly

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It was a warm midsummer's day in a small village just outside of Wales. The village was quaint with not even a hundred people. Like any small village everyone knew everyone and things never changed. Everything remained the same from the crops grown to the people who lived there, except for one man. His name was Nathaniel Daly. He, unlike the rest of his village was different, ever changing and creating. He would often be found in his cottage tinkering with some new creation that he was convinced would be lifechanging. His ideas and inovative personality caused him to be seen and treated like an outsider. No one understood why he was never satisfied and always tinkered with such odd things making his strange creaions. The village did …show more content…

When he was tinkering in his cottage he would often walk through the woods outside his village pondering what it would be like to soar above the clouds and the feeling of the wind. He would watch the birds in envy of their ability wishing he too could could fly. It was always the same. Nathaniel would walk the same path, watch the same birds, and wish the same things until one day when he met a mysterious figure while on his usual walk. He was taken aback by a person, who what he thought was a person, following him. The figure was tall and thin and draped in dark clothing with red glowing eyes. Once he had regained his composer he asked the name of the mysterious figure. The figure responded in a raspy voice that he was known by many names but that he could call him Beelzebul. Nathaniel then proceeded to ask what he was doing in these woods miles from any village other than his own. Beelzebul proceeded to explain that he too liked to walk this path and watch the path. He then explained that he wished he could fly like the birds that were …show more content…

At first Nathaniel had begun to believe that he had been tricked but then he took a closer look at his surroundings. The trees on this same path he had so often frequented looked so much bigger than they had a few moments ago. Everything in fact appeared as though it had doubled or tripled in size. Then it occurred to him that the world did not get bigger but that he had gotten smaller. Upon further investigation he realized he was turned into a bird. A European Robin to be exact, the very same type of bird he was admiring only moments earlier. Then on a sudden whim Nathaniel stretch out his wings and took flight. Finally, after years of trial and error Nathaniel achieved his lifelong dream. He could fly and fly he did. He soared above the clouds where he relished in the feeling of the sun against his wings and then dived back down below where he continued to enjoy his newfound abilities. This continued for hours on end until Nathaniel decided he should share his achievement with the village and brag to those who mocked and doubted him. He had not ventured far when he realized how they might react to his new form and thought it best to stay away from the village for now and make refuge in the woods he often

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