Tuesday, 8 April 2014

 



The Sweet Factory

 
There once lived a 12-year-old boy called Jim. He wasn’t a normal boy in school but neither were his parents; well his dad wasn’t. His mum died when he was only young. His dad was a dentist and a very strict one too.

 

It was Halloween, so Jim designed a costume. He was dressed as a doctor. He was a few hours out before he came home with his bag full of sweets. His dad immediately leapt from his seat and swiftly ran over to Jim and said “what do you have there boy?” Jim replied “a few sweets dad”. His dad snatched the bag off Jim and threw it in the fire. Jim cried a little and stormed up stairs.

 

He started to invent something new. He had a good mind but his inventions never worked. But this time he had a feeling about this one. He was going to design a secret sweet machine so he could……… have all the sweets in the world.

 

Little Jim started to collect the parts and pieces for his magical sweet machine. He was clanking and hammering all night then early the next morning he was finished. It was fantastic but he still didn’t know if it worked. He slowly bent down and grabbed the plug then with a worried face he ever so slowly trotted over to the socket and pushed the plug inside. He flicked the switch and heard the sweet machine fire up. As quick as a bullet he sprinted over to the machine and was so hypnotised in amazement that he fainted.

 

He was quickly woken up by the sound of the ice cream man outside but why would he need him, he had a sweet machine. He designed the machine to be voice activated. Jim asked for a packet of Walker crisps but the sweet machine replied, “Need fuel”. Then Jim remembered that he had to put a sweet into the machine to start it off. He slowly hopped downstairs and got a gobstopper from the ice cream man for two pence and inserted it into the machine.

 

The machine was brighter than before so he knew something had worked. He asked again “can I have some Walker crisps please”.

The machine replied “please hold” and the machine started clanking away. A minute later came Jim’s Walker crisps.

Jim was so amazed by his invention he forgot he had school and…. homework. He sprang up from his hands and knees like a tensioned Slinky. He got dressed and sprinted to school, as he was already 10 minutes late. His first class was science and his teacher was miss Trunchbull who was the strictest teacher of all time. When he arrived at class finally, his fellow classmates and miss Trunchbull turned to face Jim. His face turned like a tomato as the teacher bellowed, “Where have you been Jim”?

Jim replied, “school bus was late miss”.

Miss Trunchbull then said” was it now? Well how did everyone else make it to class?” Jim said nothing then sat down.

 

 It was time to go home. Jim trotted down the road with no expression on his face. He was home finally and exhausted from his journey from school. He laboured upstairs too see his sweet machine. Jim watched TV for a bit and fell asleep. As he was sleeping he had the most brilliant dream. He dreamt about owning and managing his very own sweet factory. He soon woke up and thought about his dream. He was going to design his very own sweet factory. He worked on the design for weeks and began collecting different parts and pieces to duplicate his old sweet machine. He had built sweet machine NO.2 and made six more so all together he had 8 .His dad was asleep so he ran to the abandoned house across the street and he transported his machines in a wheelbarrow. He started to rebuild what was once a house. It took weeks for him to rebuild his new found factory. His dad wasn’t worried since he snuck back in his house every day and every night for school. He invited over two of his very few friends to experience his work on the factory. The two friends were astounded at his factory. They were ages with Jim one was called Jake and the other Sam. They were also smarty pants Jake was interested in the same things as Jim but not Sam he took a interest in fictional things. Jim’s factory was taking shape now. Two months on and the factory was complete. Each machine had two dispensers attached to it Jim was now 13
 
..............to be continued 

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