Contoh storytelling

The Ugly Duckling

Once
upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them.
She just wished the eggs would break out. Several days later, she got her wish.
The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep,
peep.", the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack.", their
mother greeted in return.

However the largest egg had not cracked. The
mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly
duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big
and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.

When the mother duck brought the children to the
pond for their first swimming lesson. The huge grey duckling splashed and
paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. "That is not a
turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome.", the mother said
proudly. However, the other animals
didn't agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters
and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly.", they quacked.

The little poor duckling was very unhappy.
"I wish I looked like them..", he thought to himself. One day, the
ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone
through the cold and snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom.
While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming
toward him. "Oh, dear. These beautiful birds will laugh and peck me
too.", he said to himself. But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they
swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his
neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe
his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam.", he
exclaimed.

He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and
played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.