The Greats by Deborah Ellis is a collection of short stories that highlight various individuals who have achieved greatness through their actions, despite their humble or challenging backgrounds. Each story explores themes such as resilience, determination, and perseverance.

One of the stories in the book, “Meanwhile, Across Town,” follows the disappearance of a life-sized exhibit of a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather from the Guyana National Museum. The story highlights the importance of preserving history and the consequences of neglecting cultural artifacts.

• The Greats

• By: Deborah Ellis
• Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Winning the national high school geography competition should be the pinnacle of Jomon’s life. So why did he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, that night – so angry and desperate? Why would he hang his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store?

Why does a teenage boy decide life is not worth living?

Arrested by the police and held in a cell, Jomon escapes suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenage boy – who claims to be his great-grandfather….

Meanwhile, across town, the pride of Guyana, a life-size exhibit about a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather, disappeared from the National Museum of Guyana overnight. While museum officials debated who was responsible for the disappearance and who was responsible for retrieving the sloth, only Mrs. Simson, a museum cleaner, seemed to understand what needed to be done. .

And so begins a strange and magical journey, when Jomon is sentenced to a youth detention center and a series of deceased grandfathers appear, each of them a victim. suicide person. When the grandfathers argued with each other and blamed each other for their own fates, they were always on the lookout for Jomon, to try to make sure he didn’t carry on in their family tradition.

In this short, fable-like story, Deborah Ellis comes at the timely and difficult issue of child suicide with restraint, compassion, and freshness, as the grandfathers overcome their own fraught histories to help their grandson, who in the end is aided by the appearance of a wondrous giant rodent, busy enjoying her own return to earthly existence.

 

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