The Lonely Lobster Dialectical Journal

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Typed Journal Assignment: The Lonely Lobster’s Once upon a time, there was a lonely lobster. His name was Claude. Claude liked to talk about everything and anything. The other lobster’s in his school didn't like that he talked so much, and they ignored him. Even his parents disowned him. They were sick of hearing him talk. Claude became sadder and sadder every day, all he wanted was a friend that he could talk and play with. Now that Claude was getting older he knew he needed to find a friend or he could be lonely all his life. Claude was determined to find a friend or, at least someone who would talk to him, so he swam away from the small school of lobster’s that had never accepted him and never looked back. He swam through many rough nights where there were sharks and weird looking fish, but his endurance kept him going. Finally, Claude thought he had found a lobster, the first one since he had left his school, but it was dead, just the remains of a shark’s lunch. Claude had lost all hope that he would find a friend or even a lobster in the great wilderness. …show more content…

When he got close enough to see what it was, he was amazed to see a blue lobster! He jumped to say hello to this strange looking lobster, the lobster looked relieved to see him. The blue lobster’s name was Larry and he had also run away from his school because all the other lobster’s made fun of him because he was blue. The two lobster’s talked for a long time about their homes and the people that made fun of them. Claude and Larry became good friends, Larry didn't mind that Claude talked a lot, and Claude thought that Larry being blue was

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