Tiger Tooth(Shobha Bokadia) Tiger tooth… A sign of luck.

Once in a forest area there lived a boy (13 yrs) with his family. But because of some family misunderstandings he often faced a domination of his parents. This made him introverted so he spent most of his time in school and with his friends. He often thinks that his parents don’t love him because he is unlucky. One day, because of the holidays, all his friends went to another place and this made him alone. So he decided to go in the public library and started reading books. He was surprised when he read in a book that a TIGER'S TOOTH is assumed as a sign of luck. he thought that if he also had a tiger's tooth then he would become a lucky boy forever. So from then he started to search for the tiger's tooth. He went in the zoo and in a childish manner demanded the tooth from the zookeeper. but soon he realized that he could only get it from the jungle if he would be able to find a dead tiger there. Again with keen desire to be lucky by finding a tiger's tooth he decided to go to the jungle which was near his place as he lived in a forest area.

Next day with proper preparation and without asking his parents he went to the jungle along with his pet dog. the boy was brave so initially he was blown away by the jungle adventure and beauty. Green forest and its animals and the multiple creatures like birds, monkeys, snakes etc.
But when he entered in the deep forest the scene became so horrible, daylight had gone and the darkness came, there was awkward and fearful sounds of dangerous animals like lions, bears, tigers and the whizzy wind. but his pet doggy made him realize that he is not alone. He set some fire near him for staying at night and took some rest because of tiredness. he felt sleepy. However now he was really missing his parents, ignoring their attitude.

On the other side his parents were worried for him so they started searching for him everywhere and finally came to know that one man saw him going into the jungle. So his parents and some people went to the jungle in search for the boy the whole night.

In the jungle the boy woke up when he heard his pet dog barking at the noise in a foliage. Then he saw a herd of tigers with a difference in front of his eyes. he felt happy to find them and he thought that soon when they would go for breakfast he (boy) would go there and get tiger teeth. But this was his childish behavior, he didn’t even know that all is not so easy. but the dog was afraid of the tigers so it was making annoying sounds.

On the other hand the tigers smelled them and they tried to hunt them. this situation made him afraid so the boy decided to jump on a tree with his pet. But the scared boy fell down. the dog tried to save his owner (the boy) and it started barking at the tigers.

The barking dog attracted the parents who were nearby and heard the barking, so they understand the situation. They came there where people struggled with the tigers and saved the boy. the boy was happy to see his family. The parents hugged their boy with full love without considering the mistakes done by him. At This moment the boy realized that his parents loved him, it was his misunderstanding.

Meanwhile he felt that because he struggled with the tiger he lost his own tooth. he put it on his hand and said to himself that “To be Lucky there is no need for any other thing in our hand, we only need to change our attitude toward life." So the kept his own tooth in a safe as A Sign Of Luck and lived all his life happily with a positive attitude.

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Sorry for any grammatical and spelling errors.

(Shobha Bokadia)

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