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Basically, this story is about a group of quails who keep getting captured and sold off by a hunter. The leader of the quails notices this and tells his fellow group members to fly away with his net and put it on a thorn bush. Together, the quails never get caught. However, one day the quails begin to argue and stop working together, then the hunter catches them. I feel like this topic would work very well with a story about burglars.
There could be a group of guys who are the best at robbing banks. They rob a bank almost every night and the police are clueless as to who or where they are. Everything would be going swell until one day one of the members of the group complains about the leaders wishes. He believes he should be the leader of the group and not the current man in charge.
While they are out robbing another bank, the rebellious member will go out of his way to steal some jewelry that was not on the intended target list. This will trigger the alarms of the bank and get all of the robbers caught. I think this story will suit the plot and easily convey that when a group works together they can do anything, but when they split a part it is bad for all.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Quarrel of the Quails by Babbitt
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This story is basically about a few princes who always go to a lake, so the king puts fish in the lake for them to see. Among those fish is one turtle. The boys had never seen a turtle before and are instantly frightened of it and want it gone. The king eventually sentences the turtle to death. However, the turtle saves himself by tricking the people to believe he will die in water.
This story gave me the idea of writing something involving racial issues. I thought it fit well with that topic. For example, I could have three boys who live in a very rural part of the south. They will be of white descent.
One day, a young African American boy will move to the town where they reside. Instantly, they would want to segregate him from everything because he is different. The new boy will become very popular with the other open-minded kids because they see him as another student, not someone different because of his skin. In school, the three boys would try to pick on him. Outside of class they would try to fight him and scare him away.
Eventually, the young African American boy would stand up to the other boys and prove that he is more than the color of his skin. Also, that he is proud of his heritage. His fellow students will help him due to how well-liked he is by all of them. I thought this would be an interesting story to write. I have not worked out the small details, but that is the basic plot.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
How the Turtle Saved his Own Life - Babbitt
