(School report written by a precocious second grader from the year 2189)
by Theodore Bhaskarovinagi, Grade II, Tuba Wei Elementary.
The 20th century was the century where people fought a lot and had countries that could be drawn with lines on maps. There were lots of countries then, and some had straight lines but some had squiggly lines that were hard to draw. A lot of times two countries would fight wars over how the lines were drawn, because everybody wanted to draw there own lines the way they liked. The countries also had flags that were big square sheets that they would tie to long poles and worship and dance and sing to like it was a real person that they love. A lot flags had stars or the moon or the sun, because they were the easiest and prettiest things you can see, but some just had writing in diferrent kinds of writing, and they were very colorful. I don’t know why but none of them had any rainbows or flowers or even people on it, which is wierd because people made them and people loved them and singed to them but there was never any people on them?
In the 20th century also there were lots of poor people and people who couldn’t eat and had no food, but there were other countries where people ate to much food and were so fat that they sometimes needed to be pushed on wheel chairs becaue they ate to much. There were also companys that were owned by a single person who was as rich as some countrys! But there were other people who didn’t have any money and their children sometimes even didn’t go to school and even died because they didn’t have clothes and food and nobody helped them enough. Some rich people had their own airplanes and lots of cars and lots of houses, but some other people didn’t even have one house, which is strange.
Also in the 20th century people used to have special places called churches that were temples where they prayed to Gods who would listen to them and help them, but sometimes they didn’t and people would be killed by earthqwakes and sometimes they would drown, and sometimes other people would kill the people because they were from different churches and prayed differently to them. Everybody hated war and sang lots of songs and prayers about how they love peace and hate war, but everybody fought and killed other people anyway, which is strange.
Lots of countries in the 20th century had armys and lots of people whos only job was to kill people different from them to protect there own people, but some goverments (these are the groups who ruled countrys) used guns on there own people which is strange because they lived between the same lines and owend the same flags. Sometimes people couldn’t say things or else they would be aressted and put in special houses called prison for years because they said things other people didn’t like and made them angry and they had guns so they had no choice but to go to prision because they didn’t have guns. But some people did have guns and were called “crimenals’ because they were poor and didn’t have enough money and the rich wouldn’t give them any, so they had to take it from them or “ steel” them.
In the 20th century there was a lot of bad things but there was also good things. Children could ride bicycles just like today. There were also amazing animals then, including giant wild cats that were as big as ponies and even animals with very very long necks and spots, and some animals that were as big as a house and could swim or had very long noses and giant horns on their faces and had funny names like eliphents and rinoseroses and hipopopotammuses. There were also Gorillas that were giant monkeys that looked like us but only ate leaves and didn’t hurt anybody, because they lived in the jungle, but some people with guns who didn’t even live in the jungle killed them all, which is strnage.
In the 20th century people had to pay money for everything and everybody had to work a lot, sometimes every day. You had to pay money even to have water, and if you got sick you had to pay inshurence and if you didn’t have money the doctors would not cure you if you can’t give them money. Also you had to pay money to read books and listen to music, because nobody would right books or play music for free then and you also had to pay to go to school, or else you had to go to a bad school where there were not enough teachers and to many children. Some people only singed songs or played in movies as actors but they had very much money but a man in a factory who worked very hard and had to look after his family had very little money, so songs and movies were very important in the 20th century.
What I like about the 22th century is that we are different because we don’t fight wars and hurt each other as much as before and we don’t divide people with lines anymore. Also we are not hungry and poor or to rich and spoilled, and we care about each other more then in the 20th century. We are also smarter because we don’t waist time making hundreds of different brands of toothpaste and cars just to get somewhere we can walk or ride our bicycles or take the Zoombuses. Also we are cleaner because we don’t use oil and there is no longer polution.
My favorite part of the 20th century is that they invented many good things, but now it’s better because we now how to use those things better then they did then. For example, they used to use airplanes to throw bombs and kill people in the 20th century, which is strange.
