ELISA'S

Last year my brothers and I were in our house with our grandfather, it was a rainy day so we were really bored. As the time was passing by we were getting more and more bored so our grandfather said that he wanted to tell us a story. The story started with a guy who claimed having a pencil with superpowers. Every time the guy write or draw something this thing would come true. Elisa

However, his friends didn’t believe him. So, to prove that he wasn’t lying, they suggested that he drew whatever they wanted. The first one asked him to draw a unicorn, the second one an IPhone X and the third one a huge manor with more than 20 rooms. Nevertheless, this guy didn’t know how to draw very well, so he ended up drawing a horrible creature, a rectangle and poor house instead of the things he was asked to draw in the first place.

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Even though he wasn't the best at drawing, everyone was shook about what that small pencil was able to do, and how easy was to control it. This little pencil caused intrigue and curiosity between the people of the village, and everyone was now talking about what would they do if they would have that pencil on their possession and how much their life will change. Laura

Some of the villagers thought that such a valuable object couldn't be possessed by a boy who didn’t understood the potential of that pencil. If only they had that pencil… Until one of them decided to be prepared to handle the great responsibility, and so she tried to steal it. She entered in the house when everybody was asleep, but the alarm discovered her, and she ran away. Only then, the little kid knew he had to protect his pencil as everybody would try to get it. Javier Vallejo Terraza

The little kid was getting more nervous everyday because everyone was entering his house at all times of the day just to look for the pencil. Some time later, he was tired of dealing with all the problems that the pencil was giving him, so he decided to build a mansion that was covered with an electric fence that cover all the house around. After having everything he wanted, he threw the pencil to the toilet and flushed it. 

Sergio Vara

The little boy was now isolated from everyone, he could not talk to nobody. He had everything and nothing at the same time. He cried and cried for several hours until he fainted. He was completely demolished. It is said that he was fainted for days and days, even weeks and months. Meanwhile in his mind, he travelled to the World of Ideas, where he met the most famous philosophers of History: Plato, Aristotle…

Nicolás Bagur

The little boy started talking to some of them.  It was a world that no one had ever entered before, so the philosophers were stunned to see him there. One of them, Socrates, went to the little boy, as if he was afraid of him and began to touch his face to see if it was real.  Later, when he saw that he was, he turned to look at the rest of the philosophers and after a silent moment everyone began to jump and sing, some crying with joy. 

Ana Baños

After a short conversation with Socrates, he woke up in a hospital bed, with vital support equipment all over his body. He was told had suffered an epileptic attack, and this hallucinations were his subconscious preparing him for a more than certain death. After a couple of weeks, he was declared fit, and returned home, but he could not have imagined what happened in the way back home. Carlo Cabrera

Aristotle himself was standing right before him. The bearded man stepped towards him with a disappointed look. 'It was your inability to reach the golden mean between your vices that brought you here. You were boastful, which led to the envy of others, and instead of facing the consequences with courage, you did so with cowardice," said the man, more furious with every word. The boy stumbled backwards. Alexa C.

He felt and realised Aristotle was totally right, he had been so boastful and he felt in  the necessity to help those people with the power of the pencil, but it was now gone, how could he get  it back?, then Plato told him that he could teach him how to manipulate the different realms of the divided line to create again the idea of the magical pencil from the world of ideas and return to the mundane world through the world of shadows.-Stefan

The boy accepted Plato's help though he started to realize that there was no way in which he would get back that magic pencil. If only he had realized before all the good deeds that he could have done with that magical pencil... With the help of that magical pencil, he could have given houses to the villagers, money to those who needed it... He just thought about himself, he didn't think in all the good that he could have done. He decided to sell the mansion where he lived to gather money and share it with the villagers. At least that would make him feel better. Ariana.

The villagers were upset because the boy had lost his pencil forever, but at the same time they were happy because the boy's mansion was sold for 10 million dollars to a real estate agent called Marselo. This could help and improve their village in every aspect. Marselo noticed that the boy was very upset for some reason, so he asked the boy what happened to him. The boy told Marselo everything that happened with his pencil and asked him to help to find it again. Marselo told the boy that it was impossible for him to find the pencil, but fortunately, he knew where to find another one. José 

The little boy did not notice that Marselo was his creation. The first draw he did with the pencil was a man, with blond hair, about thirty years old and very tall, which he copied from a tutorial of youtube. This description coincide with the appearance of Marselo.

That is why the men went to help his owner, the little boy. 

With Marselo, another pen could be created, they just needed his essence, traveling through the world of ideas and taking the “copie” that participates in its own idea. -Hugo

So that's what they did. At first they didn't know how to contact again with the philosophers, after a long and rough conversation they came up with the idea of going to Athenas to the old platonic academy. They stayed there for 2 years studying all the sciences and finally dialectics, they had become philosophers. One night when they were sleeping in their bedroom Plato appeared himself. He told them that they've reached the final phase to ascend to the world of Ideas and now they were able to enter it. Pablo

They had to pass a final test which consisted on creating a new world, different from the one of shadows and the one of ideas. The young boy and his creation tried it really hard and finally found a new realm which they called “The drawn world”, this world consisted on everything that the magic pencil was able to create. Plato was in love with this idea, he liked it more even than his two realms, but he needed a final 

piece to make this world perfect, he needed to get back the magic pen of the boy so that everything could make sense. But that was not a big problem as he could submerged into the world of ideas and get that copie back. Isabel

After a very long search, Plato found the Idea of The Magic Pencil. They were so happy. The little boy and Marselo would be able to do good things with the pencil. To create The Drawn World. However, the little boy was afraid, as he was not very good at drawing, so he decided to ask Marselo and Plato to draw for him. But Plato had a better idea, he drawed an artist who would work for the little boy creating a good new world. By Sofía

This artists was Picasso, one of the most famous painters of history. Plato ordered him to draw The Drawn World and so he did. After 20 minutes he had finished drawing it. When they saw the drawing everyone felt like fainting. Picasso draw The Drawn World in such an abstract  way that it looked like a unicorn World. They were impatiently waiting to see what was actually drawn. By Moe

But the final result was very disappointing , it was nothing as they imagine it had a lot of figures in it like spheres and triangles , it was not clear enough ,so they had to fire Picasso .That left us without artist and they had left only one day and a half for creating the Drawn World , the only opportunity they had to create it was to create another artist ,this one was called Salvador Dalí he worked for 5 hours drawing the Drawn World and when he finished , the little boy , Marselo , and Plato were stunned by the job he did . It was amazing . So like that they were finally able to create the Drawn World. By Roxana 

Everything was wonderful at first, and everyone could enjoy that world of fantasy, but there was one thing that had not disappeared from the heart of men, that was envy. Plato, as he know possessed the Idea of the pencil, decided to create things to his will, interfering with the Drawn world, to the extent of near destruction, the poor boy could do nothing, but see his dream shattered by someone he relied on. Marselo was not as lucky as the boy, as Plato decided to kill him, as he interfered with his plans. The boy only wanted one thing, which was revenge but he did not have an effective to fight an enemy which such power. By Pedro 

The boy suddenly remembered a philosophy lesson he had. He remembered that Plato was once a slave, so it occurred to him a wonderful idea. He would attack him in the psychological field. He was going to make Plato have a break down, so he won’t be strong enough to fight for the pen, as he would be totally devastated. Before starting the plan, he had to get very well informed, if not the plan wouldn’t be as 

lethal and radical as he wanted it to be. By Ana Pérez Narváez

He decided to create the idea of fear, the idea of destruction, and the idea of death. Plato, mortal as every human being on existence, became obsessed with death, to the point of getting immensely depressed. One day, Plato decided that his fight for the pencil was futile, because he constantly had in his head the repetitive and unpleasant image of him catching the pencil, only to misdraw the image and get killed by an horrendous monster he had just created. Those were just the genius’ harmful imagination in action, but it allowed the guy to keep his priced pencil. By Miguel de Perosanz

After taking again the pencil, he returned to the real world, to the one which he belongs to. When he arrived he was shocked, the fight that he had with Plato, had some consequences, such as the destructions of some cities, and the only way in which he could solve all those problems was by drawing everything such as was before, but he was not a good painter, so he was afraid of not having enough pencil lead, so he travelled to visit the best painter of that time, she was called Rosa Melpito. By Gonzalo Quintanilla

Rosa created the most modern and beautiful cities ever seen, prepared for every disaster imaginable, the boy felt he had finally completed his story arc, he had learned the lesson that he should not be greedy or selfish, but he felt void once again, but he was too afraid to do anything of consequence, after all the damage he had done previously, he decided he should continue his life normally, and only use the pencil whenever he needed. By Andrés Rodríguez  

The boy was finally living a normal life away from the pencil that had brought him wisdom and lots of experiences. One day a beautiful girl rang the doorbell of the boy. She claimed to have found the pencil he had once flushed and was there to share what she had found out about its power. The boy let her through the door. They shared a deep conversation about how the girl throw the philosophy of Descartes had gone through a similar voyage as he did. They both coincided that the pencil was a powerful source of knowledge and could be used to make the world a better place so they both used it to create the world we live in now, not perfect nor fair, but in which human beings can develop themselves as what they are.

The old man looked away and saw his grandchildren asleep, he had spent the whole evening telling them the story and they weren't listening. He thought about what a world we live in and decided he didn't want to live in it anymore.Manuel Ruiz