THE LITTLE WHALE AND SHARKS
The little whale whose mother was killed by whale hunters was swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Whilst swimming, he was surrounded by a group of sharks that included about twenty members. The leader of the sharks came nearer to the little whale and said ‘ I know you and I can understand how you feel little whale. Being unhappy won’t help you. You can’t get anything living unhappily. People killed your mother. You must get your revenge. You mustn’t swim around doing nothing. We are your friends and we can teach you how to kill people so that you can kill them cruelly and get your revenge. In the near future people will get to know you and they will be afraid of this cruel whale.’
‘Did people eat my mother?’ asked the little whale.
‘Yes, my little friend they did. People are so cruel. They kill all the living things in the world wildly and also they are really cruel to each other as well. I have seen lots of people fighting with each other on the ships. My grandfather used to say that they were also fighting on the land and the one who beats the other one was becoming a hero.’ answered the leader of the sharks.
‘It means that people are really bad creature, aren’t they? asked the little whale.
‘Yes, they really are.’ said the shark.
‘If they are so, I am going to punish all of them and the ones that killed my mother and made me cry for a long time but I don’t know how to do this.’ the little whale said.
‘You can learn it. Come on honey, follow me. Let’s go my dear friends. Deep waters are waiting for us.’ said the shark.
The sharks taught the little whale all the techniques about how to kill people and it took them one month to do this. Their aim was to send the little whale to the beaches where a lot of people swam and to make him kill all the people who were swimming around.
Little whale was sure of himself. He was definitely confident that he was able to kill people and he always told the sharks he wanted to kill all the people and pull them to pieces. However, the leader of the sharks thought it was necessary to test the little whale if he really learned how to kill that before sending him to the beach to kill people. So five of the sharks started to look for a person swimming around alone and away from the other people who were doing different activities on the beach. After a short time they realized that there was a little boy swimming alone near the lighthouse. This little boy was going to be their first victim. They didn’t want to go closer to the child as they didn’t want him to be scared. They turned back quickly and showed the little whale his first victim so that the little whale started to swim towards the little boy. The sharks thought that the little boy must be a professional swimmer as the sea was very deep around the lighthouse otherwise he couldn’t swim there because most of the people were afraid of it. At first the little whale took his head out of the sea and then his body and tail appeared. The child realized the whale immediately. The whale took a deep breathe and dived into the sea. Although it was just a baby whale, it was four metres long. It was impossible for the little boy to swim towards the beach because the whale could swim much faster than him so that it could catch him before reaching the beach. He started swimming parallel to the beach but the whale came closer and closer and then the whale started swimming next to him and after a while it suddenly opened its mouth and then closed it. Then it turned back and swam towards the sharks.
When he came near them:
‘ I completed my mission. I killed the child.’ he said.
‘ Did you pull him to pieces?’, asked the leader of the sharks.
‘ No, I didn’t pull him to pieces’, said the little whale.
‘ Didn’t you? What did you do, then?’ asked the shark.
‘ I swallowed him.’ replied the whale.
‘Swallowed?’ asked the shark.
‘ Yes, I did. The child is in my stomach now.’ said the whale.
‘ No matter what you did. As a result you killed him. I really appreciate what you did and I want to congratulate you. We are going somewhere far away tomorrow to attend a meeting so that we won’t be here for a few days. I want you to go to the beach and kill as may people as possible. You can either pull them to pieces or swallow them. You must swim around all the beaches and kill all the people you come across. Do not pity on them.’ said the leader of the sharks.
After a few days the sharks came back and found the little whale swimming around happily. The little whale told them that he had killed twenty people cruelly and people had been afraid of swimming in the sea since than because they were scared to death and next he boasted them all the people were afraid of him. All the sharks became very pleased when they heard that.
The next day one of the sharks saw the boy whom the whale pretended as if he swallowed the other day on the beach near the lighthouse. He went directly beside their leader and told what he had seen so that the leader got furious. He went beside the little whale angrily.
‘You told us that you had swallowed that little boy but we saw him on the beach and he was alive. Nothing has happened to him. He looks so healthy. Are you making fun of us?’ he said.
The whale realized that he was being surrounded by the sharks that seemed very angry.
‘Yes, I swallowed him but I couldn’t digest him so I had to vomit him because he started kicking my stomach.’ replied the little whale.
‘Shut up, you liar! you didn’t swallow him and you didn’t attack other people swimming around. They were all lies. You also told us that people couldn’t come to the beach as they were afraid of you but you see all the beaches are full of people and they don’t care about you. All the things that you told us were lies. If you can’t kill them, I will…… said the leader of the sharks. And he couldn’t finish his sentence.
‘What will you do? I got bored of you all. Get out of my sight!’ said the whale angrily and then hit the leader with his head so strongly that it went down the depths of the sea and then he started to swim very fast towards the beach. It was too late to turn back and the sharks were swimming just behind him and they were so close. If they caught him they would pull him to pieces.
Little whale reached the beach hardly. It struggled and kicked about while lying on its back for a while and it could manage to move a bit on the beach. When he got weak he let his head on the hot sand. The child recognized the whale and ran beside him.
‘What is happening little whale? You must be in the sea not on the beach!’ said the little boy.
‘Thanks God. Is it you little boy? Sorry I can’t remember your name.2 said the little whale.
‘My name is Mark. I am OK! What are you doing on the beach?’ asked the little boy.
‘My name is Sili. We met a few days ago, didn’t we?’ asked the little whale.
‘Yes, I do. We swam next to each other for a while. When you opened your big mouth I got so frightened because I thought that you were going to eat me but I was wrong. You just opened your mouth widely and then closed it and swam away. I couldn’t understand why you did like that.’ said the little boy.
‘ Did you really think that I was going to eat you. That was just a joke. I am so sorry that I made you frightened. Please forgive me for my behaviour’ said the whale.
‘ OK! I do forgive you. Would you please tell me what is going on now? What is the reason for your being here on the beach instead of swimming in the sea?’ asked the little boy.
Little told him everything.
‘As you see my friend all the sharks are chasing me all around and I can not fight them alone because there are twenty sharks that want to kill me. That is why I am here.’ said the whale.
‘Why didn’t you swim away when the sharks went far away for the meeting? You should have asked for help from the other whales.’ said the little boy.
‘If I had swum away, the sharks would catch me easily. I would have no chance to survive because all the sharks in the sea would start looking for me in order to kill me. I wouldn’t have asked for help from other whales because that would cause a cruel war between all the sharks and whales living in the sea. as a result a lot of whales and sharks would die just because of me. I might have died in that war. But now only I am dying and none of the whales is in danger. It is not the end of the world if I die. The world is like a drop in the space and I am not even like a drop in the ocean’ explained the whale.
‘If your mother hadn’t died, the sharks wouldn’t have tried to kill you. You wouldn’t be here and running away from them.’ said the boy.
‘ That is true but people are responsible from my mother’s death. They killed her. What is more I can’t understand the reason why they killed my mother. She didn’t hurt them. Why do you think they killed her, Mark?’ asked the little whale.
‘To earn some money. Some people kill animals to earn some money. They don’t care about what would happen to the babies of those animals that they kill. How can those babies survive without their mothers? They won’t give harm to a child whose mother or father died. Because they respect that child and pity on him. A child whose mother or father died when he was small can understand you very well. I promise you I will never give harm anything on earth.’ promised the child.
‘ I love you, Mark’ said the little whale.
‘ I love you, too Sili’ replied the little boy.
Written by: Serdar Yıldırım
‘Yes, my little friend they did. People are so cruel. They kill all the living things in the world wildly and also they are really cruel to each other as well. I have seen lots of people fighting with each other on the ships. My grandfather used to say that they were also fighting on the land and the one who beats the other one was becoming a hero.’ answered the leader of the sharks.
‘It means that people are really bad creature, aren’t they? asked the little whale.
‘Yes, they really are.’ said the shark.
‘If they are so, I am going to punish all of them and the ones that killed my mother and made me cry for a long time but I don’t know how to do this.’ the little whale said.
‘You can learn it. Come on honey, follow me. Let’s go my dear friends. Deep waters are waiting for us.’ said the shark.
The sharks taught the little whale all the techniques about how to kill people and it took them one month to do this. Their aim was to send the little whale to the beaches where a lot of people swam and to make him kill all the people who were swimming around.
Little whale was sure of himself. He was definitely confident that he was able to kill people and he always told the sharks he wanted to kill all the people and pull them to pieces. However, the leader of the sharks thought it was necessary to test the little whale if he really learned how to kill that before sending him to the beach to kill people. So five of the sharks started to look for a person swimming around alone and away from the other people who were doing different activities on the beach. After a short time they realized that there was a little boy swimming alone near the lighthouse. This little boy was going to be their first victim. They didn’t want to go closer to the child as they didn’t want him to be scared. They turned back quickly and showed the little whale his first victim so that the little whale started to swim towards the little boy. The sharks thought that the little boy must be a professional swimmer as the sea was very deep around the lighthouse otherwise he couldn’t swim there because most of the people were afraid of it. At first the little whale took his head out of the sea and then his body and tail appeared. The child realized the whale immediately. The whale took a deep breathe and dived into the sea. Although it was just a baby whale, it was four metres long. It was impossible for the little boy to swim towards the beach because the whale could swim much faster than him so that it could catch him before reaching the beach. He started swimming parallel to the beach but the whale came closer and closer and then the whale started swimming next to him and after a while it suddenly opened its mouth and then closed it. Then it turned back and swam towards the sharks.
When he came near them:
‘ I completed my mission. I killed the child.’ he said.
‘ Did you pull him to pieces?’, asked the leader of the sharks.
‘ No, I didn’t pull him to pieces’, said the little whale.
‘ Didn’t you? What did you do, then?’ asked the shark.
‘ I swallowed him.’ replied the whale.
‘Swallowed?’ asked the shark.
‘ Yes, I did. The child is in my stomach now.’ said the whale.
‘ No matter what you did. As a result you killed him. I really appreciate what you did and I want to congratulate you. We are going somewhere far away tomorrow to attend a meeting so that we won’t be here for a few days. I want you to go to the beach and kill as may people as possible. You can either pull them to pieces or swallow them. You must swim around all the beaches and kill all the people you come across. Do not pity on them.’ said the leader of the sharks.
After a few days the sharks came back and found the little whale swimming around happily. The little whale told them that he had killed twenty people cruelly and people had been afraid of swimming in the sea since than because they were scared to death and next he boasted them all the people were afraid of him. All the sharks became very pleased when they heard that.
The next day one of the sharks saw the boy whom the whale pretended as if he swallowed the other day on the beach near the lighthouse. He went directly beside their leader and told what he had seen so that the leader got furious. He went beside the little whale angrily.
‘You told us that you had swallowed that little boy but we saw him on the beach and he was alive. Nothing has happened to him. He looks so healthy. Are you making fun of us?’ he said.
The whale realized that he was being surrounded by the sharks that seemed very angry.
‘Yes, I swallowed him but I couldn’t digest him so I had to vomit him because he started kicking my stomach.’ replied the little whale.
‘Shut up, you liar! you didn’t swallow him and you didn’t attack other people swimming around. They were all lies. You also told us that people couldn’t come to the beach as they were afraid of you but you see all the beaches are full of people and they don’t care about you. All the things that you told us were lies. If you can’t kill them, I will…… said the leader of the sharks. And he couldn’t finish his sentence.
‘What will you do? I got bored of you all. Get out of my sight!’ said the whale angrily and then hit the leader with his head so strongly that it went down the depths of the sea and then he started to swim very fast towards the beach. It was too late to turn back and the sharks were swimming just behind him and they were so close. If they caught him they would pull him to pieces.
Little whale reached the beach hardly. It struggled and kicked about while lying on its back for a while and it could manage to move a bit on the beach. When he got weak he let his head on the hot sand. The child recognized the whale and ran beside him.
‘What is happening little whale? You must be in the sea not on the beach!’ said the little boy.
‘Thanks God. Is it you little boy? Sorry I can’t remember your name.2 said the little whale.
‘My name is Mark. I am OK! What are you doing on the beach?’ asked the little boy.
‘My name is Sili. We met a few days ago, didn’t we?’ asked the little whale.
‘Yes, I do. We swam next to each other for a while. When you opened your big mouth I got so frightened because I thought that you were going to eat me but I was wrong. You just opened your mouth widely and then closed it and swam away. I couldn’t understand why you did like that.’ said the little boy.
‘ Did you really think that I was going to eat you. That was just a joke. I am so sorry that I made you frightened. Please forgive me for my behaviour’ said the whale.
‘ OK! I do forgive you. Would you please tell me what is going on now? What is the reason for your being here on the beach instead of swimming in the sea?’ asked the little boy.
Little told him everything.
‘As you see my friend all the sharks are chasing me all around and I can not fight them alone because there are twenty sharks that want to kill me. That is why I am here.’ said the whale.
‘Why didn’t you swim away when the sharks went far away for the meeting? You should have asked for help from the other whales.’ said the little boy.
‘If I had swum away, the sharks would catch me easily. I would have no chance to survive because all the sharks in the sea would start looking for me in order to kill me. I wouldn’t have asked for help from other whales because that would cause a cruel war between all the sharks and whales living in the sea. as a result a lot of whales and sharks would die just because of me. I might have died in that war. But now only I am dying and none of the whales is in danger. It is not the end of the world if I die. The world is like a drop in the space and I am not even like a drop in the ocean’ explained the whale.
‘If your mother hadn’t died, the sharks wouldn’t have tried to kill you. You wouldn’t be here and running away from them.’ said the boy.
‘ That is true but people are responsible from my mother’s death. They killed her. What is more I can’t understand the reason why they killed my mother. She didn’t hurt them. Why do you think they killed her, Mark?’ asked the little whale.
‘To earn some money. Some people kill animals to earn some money. They don’t care about what would happen to the babies of those animals that they kill. How can those babies survive without their mothers? They won’t give harm to a child whose mother or father died. Because they respect that child and pity on him. A child whose mother or father died when he was small can understand you very well. I promise you I will never give harm anything on earth.’ promised the child.
‘ I love you, Mark’ said the little whale.
‘ I love you, too Sili’ replied the little boy.
Written by: Serdar Yıldırım
YAVRU BALİNA İLE KÖPEKBALIKLARI
Annesi balina avcıları tarafından öldürülen yavru balina Atlas Okyanusu’nda yüzerken etrafını yirmi kadar köpekbalığı sardı. Başkan köpekbalığı yavru balinanın yanına gelerek: “ Seni tanıyorum ve durumunu çok iyi anlıyorum yavru balina. Ama üzülmekle eline bir şey geçmez. Anneni insanlar öldürdü. Sen bunu onların yanına bırakmamalısın. Annenin intikamını almalısın. Biz senin dostunuz. Sana öldürmeyi öğretip, insanların üstüne salacağız. Çok yakında insanlar yavru balinayı tanıyıp, ondan korkacaklar “ dedi.
“ Annemi yerler mi insanlar? “ diye sordu yavru balina.
“ Yerler yavrum. İnsanlar acımasızdır. Onlar dünyadaki tüm canlıları acımasızca öldürürler. Hoş, insanlar birbirlerine karşı da acımasızdır. Ben buralarda çok gördüm gemiler içinde savaşan insanları. Dedem insanların toprak üstünde de savaştıklarını söylerdi. Savaşı kazanan kahraman olurmuş. “
“ İnsanlar kötü yaratık desene? “
“ Hem de çok kötü yaratık. “
“ O zaman beni annesiz bırakan, bana günlerce gözyaşı döktüren insanları cezalandıracağım, ama bunu nasıl yapacağımı bilemiyorum. “
“ Öğrenirsen bilirsin. Haydi, yavrucuk peşimden gel. Siz de peşimden gelin köpek kardeşlerim. Derinlikler bizi bekliyor. “
Aradan bir ay geçti. Bu sürede köpekbalıkları bildikleri öldürme yöntemlerini yavru balinaya öğrettiler. Hedef, insanların toplu halde yüzdükleri plajlar olacaktı. Plajlar, insan kanına boyanacaktı. Yavru balina, öldürürüm, parçalarım, diyordu ama onu plaja salmadan önce bir deneme yapmalıydı. Bakalım öldürebilecek miydi? Beş köpekbalığı yalnız yüzen insan aramaya başladı. Deniz fenerinin yakınında bir çocuk yüzüyordu. İlk kurban o olacaktı. Köpekbalıkları sahilden uzak kaldılar. Çocuğu ürkütmek istemiyorlardı. Yavru balina hızla çocuğa doğru yüzmeye başladı. Fenerin oralar derin demişti köpekbalıkları, çocuk demek ki, usta yüzücüydü. Yoksa onun ne işi vardı böyle derin yerde. Yavru balina kafasını suyun üstüne çıkardı, daha sonra gövdesi ve kuyruğu göründü. Çocuk, yavru balinayı hemen fark etti. Derin bir nefes alıp suya daldı. Balina yavruydu ama dört metre boyundaydı. Sahile doğru yüzmeye kalksa bunu başaramazdı, çünkü yavru balina ondan çok daha hızlıydı. Yetişmesi an meselesiydi. Bundan dolayı çocuk sahile paralel yüzüyordu. Yavru balina çocuğa yetişti, bir süre onunla yan yana yüzdü ve aniden dönerek ağzını açıp kapadı. Yavru balina köpekbalıklarının yanına döndüğünde:
“ Görevimi başardım. Çocuğun işi tamam “ dedi.
“ Çocuğu parçaladın mı? “ diye sordu, başkan köpekbalığı.
“ Hayır, parçalamadım “ dedi yavru balina.
“ Parçalamadın mı? O zaman ne yaptın? “
“ Çocuğu yuttum. “
“ Yuttun mu? “
“ Evet, yuttum…Çocuk şimdi midemde. “
“ Öyle veya böyle, çocuğu öldürmüşsün işte. Seni kutlarım yavru balina. Biz yarın uzaklara gidip bir toplantıya katılacağız. Birkaç gün yokuz. Sen şu ilerdeki plaja git, yakaladığını ister parçala, ister yut. Sıradan bütün plajları dolaş. İnsanlara acıma yok. “
Köpekbalıkları döndüğünde yavru balinayı buldular. Yavru balina yirmi insanı acımadan öldürdüğünü, insanların plajlara çıkamadığını, etrafa korku saldığını söyledi. Köpekbalıkları bu habere çok sevindiler. Ertesi gün bir köpekbalığı deniz fenerinin yakınındaki sahilde yavru balinanın yuttum dediği çocuğu gördü. Başkanı bularak durumu anlattı. Başkan, bunun üzerine çok sinirlendi. Nefretle yavru balinanın üstüne gitti:
“ Hani yutmuştun o çocuğu, bak fenerin oradaymış. Sen bizimle dalga mı geçiyorsun? “ Köpekbalıklarının etrafını sardığını gören yavru balina:
“ Şey, yutmuştum ama hazmedemedim, kusuverdim. Çocuk midemi tekmelemişti. “
“ Sus, yalancı seni, çocuğu yutmadın, plajlara saldırmadın, bütün plajlar dolu. Hani plajlara kimse çıkamıyordu, hani etrafa korku salmıştın. Yalan, hepsi yalan. Madem öldüremiyorsun, ölürsün. Şimdi seni…”
Başkan köpekbalığı sözlerini tamamlayamadı, çünkü yavru balina:
“ Beni ne yaparsın? Sıktın artık, çekil önümden “ dedikten sonra, ona sert bir kafa vurarak denizin derinliklerine yolladı.
Yavru balinanın önü açılmıştı. Gücünün yettiği kadar hızlı yüzmeye başladı. Karşısı sahildi. Artık geriye dönüş yoktu. Peşinde sürüyle köpekbalığı vardı. Yakalarlarsa parçalarlardı. Yavru balina kendini sahile zor attı. Debelendi kumun üstünde biraz daha, biraz daha ilerledi. Gücü tükenince başını sıcacık kumun üstüne bıraktı. Çocuk yavru balinayı tanımıştı. Onun yanına geldi:
“ Ne oluyor, yavru balina? Neden sahile çıktın? “
“ Oh, sen miydin? Nasılsın çocuk? Adın neydi senin? “
“ Benim adım Mark. İyiyim de burada ne işin var? “
“ Benim adım de Sili. Geçenlerde tanışmıştık, hatırladın mı? “
“ Hatırladım. Bir süre yan yana yüzmüştük, sonra sen gitmiştin. Üstüme gelirken beni yiyeceksin sanıp korkmuştum.”
“ Kim? Ben mi seni yiyecektim? O bir şakaydı. Seni korkuttuğum için özür dilerim. Beni affet.”
“ Affettim gitti. Anlat bakalım Sili, neler oluyor? Neden denizde değil de buradasın? “
Yavru balina olanları anlattıktan sonra:
“ Ya, işte böyle Mark, köpekbalıkları peşimde, sayıları yirmiden fazla. Onlarla yalnız başıma çarpışamam. Acı gerçek ama benim için böylesi daha iyi olacak. “
“ Köpekbalıkları toplantıya gittiğinde kaçıp gitseydin uzaklara veya balinalardan yardım isteseydin? “
“ Kaçsam kısa zamanda yakalanırdım. Kurtuluşu yoktu. Okyanustaki bütün köpekbalıkları peşime düşerdi. Balinalardan yardım isteyemezdim, çünkü bu korkunç bir savaşın başlangıcı olurdu. Yüzlerce balina ve köpekbalığı birbirine girerdi. Arada belki ben de ölürdüm. Oysa şimdi sadece ben ölüyorum, hiçbir balinayı tehlikeye atmıyorum. Bir benim için başkalarının keyfini kaçıramam. Sili ölürse kıyamet kopmaz. Hayat devam eder. Dünya uzayda nokta kadar, fakat Sili dünyada nokta kadar bile değil. “
“ Annen yaşasaydı köpekbalıkları sana sokulamazdı. Bu duruma düşmezdin. “
“ Onun orası öyle de annemi insanlar öldürdü. Asıl suçlu annemi öldüren insanlar. Mark, sence insanlar annemi neden öldürdü? “
“ Kazanç uğruna. Bazıları kendileri kazansın diye can alıyorlar. Öldürürken düşünmezler ki, balinanın yavrusu ne olacak? Yavru annesiz ne yapacak? Örneğin; annesiz, babasız bir çocuk ne olur, ne yapar, nasıl yaşar? Çocukken bunu düşünen biri büyüdüğünde diğer canlıların hayatına saygı duyar, onlara zarar vermez. Tanrı şahidimdir ki, ben insan olsun, diğer canlı varlıklar olsun hiçbirine zarar vermeyeceğim. Yemin ediyorum. “
“ Seni seviyorum, Mark.”
“ Ben de seni seviyorum, Sili. “
Yazan: Serdar Yıldırım
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İngilizce Hikaye 4: Swallow And Sparrow (Türkçe Tercümesiyle Birlikte)
İngilizce Hikaye 5: The Jackal (Türkçe Tercümesiyle Birlikte)
İngilizce Hikaye 3: The Champion Duck (Türkçe Tercümesiyle Birlikte)
İngilizce Hikaye 4: Swallow And Sparrow (Türkçe Tercümesiyle Birlikte)
İngilizce Hikaye 5: The Jackal (Türkçe Tercümesiyle Birlikte)
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