Carrot Monologue

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The snowman opened his eyes to two small children. A boy and a girl standing in front of me. Dressed in fluffy jackets, mittens, and the cutest little knit caps, they were the most adorable children ever. Giggling they pressed a black hat his head.

"What do you think this snowman is missing", the boy asked the girl.

"A nose," the tiny girl cried and she pulled a carrot out of her pocket to place it on the snowman's face.

"There, that's better," she said. Then the door to a house opened and a woman poked her head out to call the children back inside.

The snowman was left alone to his own thoughts. He looked at the very tip of his nose. The carrot just didn't seem right. A carrot was way to long for a nose. The snowman thought about the children's cute button noses. He wanted a nose like that too. …show more content…

There had to be some way to find the perfect nose. He picked a leaf off a nearby twig and placed it where the carrot had been. No, that didn't seem to be right either. Much to flat and before long the leaf crumbled into brown mush.

The snowman slid across the snow along the street. He picked up a pine cone. This wasn't a good nose either, much to spiky. Next, he tried a rock, but it wasn't very pretty. Then, he tried pine needles. Turns out they were much to flimsy.

Then a bright blue jacket lying on the ground caught the snowman's attention. He picked it up gingerly to look for buttons. There were some navy colored snap buttons and the snowman pulled one off to test out.

It was not an awful nose, but it was a little small. The button lacked the qualities of a good nose. How would he ever find the right nose? It was hopeless.

The snowman returned to the place where the children had made him. He had only been there for a few minutes before the children came back outside to

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