I’m Vignesh Manikandan, a not very tall, with black hair and
enthusiastic brown eye. I walked down the Parkmont school hallways in blue and
orange striped shirt and light blue denim jeans. I started at the campus
blankly because nothing exciting or adventurous happened yet in my life.
I heard loud stomping feet coming down the hall. Nate, the
leader of a evil gang that was formed four years ago. His hair was brown and he
was wearing a Mohawk. He had brown eyes, and literally one can see the blazing
fire in his eyes at night. He was wearing brown baggy pants that reached to the
tip of the heels of his shoes. He was wearing dark shirt with a picture of a
terrifying skull in the center. He sent chills down my spine.
He smirked at me and pushed me aside. I fell down on the on
the floor with a THUD! Revenge was in my eyes. As I was about to get backup and
fight him his evil gang was gone from my sight. I got up, dusted myself and
headed to my fourth grade class.
After school my friend Prifik came over to my home, he is
one of my best friends in the universe. While we were playing our battle of
Beyblades, he said, “you know, you are good at cartoons, so you should submit
your entry in our schools annual cartoon drawing contest, and he encouraged me
that I would win a prize for sure, hence I decided to enter the contest.
The very next day in school, I was signing a paper to enter
the competition. The deadline was in a week’s time and I had just the right
amount of time to work on it. The bulletin board on the MPR room displayed all
the entries received so far as I was going through the participant list, my
eyes stopped right at the name “Nate”. But that did not stop me, I told to
myself that I was going to win this competition…
I worked on my drawing over days and nights. I wouldn’t stop
until I got the character in a perfect shape. It was most challenging to draw an
image of heroic lightning dragon that I had in my mind. I spent several hours
in getting the exact expression and colors to the character.
Before I knew it, it was the day to submit our cartoons. I
saw Nate turning in his submission. He had a drawing of a garden snake, which
was presented bit poorly in my thoughts. Once I walked out, I could not stop
hearing him bragging about how he would win and he had the coolest drawing of
all the submissions. I just ignored him and turned in my submission after him.
The chairperson who was collecting the cartoons looked at my
submission and his eyes went wide. The dragon was splashed with blue and orange
color on the scales, and its razor sharp talons jutted out of its piercing
wings. The dragon’s head was drawn to the right with red flames shooting out of
his mouth.
Finally the day of the results came and I could not wait
until my classes were over so I can go to the MPR room to hear the results.
When I entered the MPR room, I noticed ten rows of drawings displayed on
tables, each row had ten drawings in display. When we all settled down, the
chairperson announced the results from the third place till first place in each
grade level. I felt happy that my buddy in kindergarten won the first place for
grade levels K till three. Then they announced the results for grade four till
six, the third place winner was from sixth grade, second place winner was from
fifth grade. Finally the first place winner was called out… I could not believe
my ears as he said “Vignesh Manikandan” …
When I came up on the stage wearing my best smile ever I can
see that Jacob was pretty sad. My mom, dad and sister clapped louder for my
achievement and I can see my friend Prifik went crazy with happiness. He ran up
the stage and hugged me, and shouted meet “Our Cartoonist” of the year, and
that is how I got my revenge and the name “The Cartoonist”.
Submitted this for Young Author Contest - Parkmont Elementary school, 4th grade.
