As a part of our literature studies, we were given the task of reading 'Abol Tabol' a poetry collection by Sukumar Ray. The book introduced us to a series of imaginative and whimsical poems filled with playful language and unique characters. I selected the poem 'Shadow Play'. The poem tells about the imagination of catching shadows of trees and putting them into bottles.
We were then asked to write a text in response to the the selected poem.

The Response :
A long afternoon there was  a kid running through the village. Exhausted, he stopped and looked around . He noticed that he was accompanied with  some dark creature. Scared he started running again, trying to escape. But all his efforts in vain the strange thing followed him as well. Curious to know its identity and why is it following him he went to his grandpa.
"What is this grandpa which has been following me all along, do you know ?" 
" O this is a shadow" said grandpa.
Continuing he said, " Shadows are magical you know! They do have powers of curing ones health as lot of medicines out of it can be made. There are some shadows who will reveal themselves to you but staying still when around someone and then start to move. They can grow two times bigger than you and also disappear when its 12 at noon. There was a time when people used to catch the shadows. It is not an easy trade though as one needs to be very skillful in this job. Running behind them for long or also at times creeping behind them all.
Listening to these amazing things the boy was stunned. He asked his grandpa " But why is this shadow following me everywhere ?" Grandpa mysteriously said, "Maybe you are not the one who needs to wrestle to get hold of them!" This statement made the boy think,  "Is that I have the power to attract the shadows to me?"    
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 The next step was to act out our characters. Each of us had to choose a character from the poems to perform it in front of the class. With the idea of the above response I came up with a character who has a weird and absurd quality of collecting random yet ordinary things from around the world and noting the place, time and date along with it. So I first started collecting the basic household things and noting them with it's state of appearance.

These are the drafts of the noted things. 

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