The Lonely Lobster Dialectical Journal

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.

Just when Claude was about to give up, he saw a blue shimmer in the distance, his curiosity got the best of him and he moved closer and closer.

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

cool.
Even though they had a friend they still didn't know what to do with their lives. They couldn't live in the wilderness forever but they couldn't go back home either. When Larry was sleeping that night he had a wonderful idea Claude and he could open a sanctuary for unwanted lobsters. In the morning Larry told the idea to Claude, and Claude loved it. So they got to work building rooms and houses for all the lobster’s that would come to live there. When they had finished building and were sure they were ready for all the unwanted lobster’s they set out on an adventure to find unwanted lobsters.
Claude and Larry went to every school far and wide looking for unwanted lobsters. When they would come to a new lobster school they would give their testimonies of how they were made fun of and of the sanctuary they had built for lobsters like them. Most of the time the lobster’s didn't even listen but sometimes one or two lobster finished and would come up and say they wanted to ‘’go.’’Claude and Larry were always willing to take them.
When Claude and Larry had found all the unwanted unloved lobster’s in the whole sea, they had one thousand lobsters. Claude and Larry and all the unwanted lobster’s with them headed back to the sanctuary to live their lives where they weren't made fun of. They were quite a sight for all the other animals in the sea, most of them were just confused.
When all the unwanted lobster’s had finally gotten to the sanctuary they were amazed at what Claude and Larry built all by themselves. All the unwanted lobsters were happy there was no one to make fun of them and they liked it. Claude and Larry were happy they had made so many unwanted lobster’s happy and that's the greatest gift they could had asked for.