Journal 2

Once in a land far far away lived a purple dragon named Tootsie. Tootsie was a very clumsy dragon with a bad attitude. See in the mountains where Tootsie lived, manners were a very important part of society. All of the other dragons lived by a strict code of rules of politeness. All except Tootsie the purple dragon. See, Tootsie lived on the outskirts of the dragon community in a desolate cave. Since Tootsie lived so far from all of the other dragons and was cut off from often contact with them, she was never taught the polite codes that all the other dragons had learned by heart. Tootsie, of course, was not aware that she was missing knowledge about how to behave around the other dragons, and she made blunders after blunders in social situations. For this the other dragons found her lack of manners distasteful, and ostracized her. This badly hurt Tootsie the purple dragon, and she was very confused as to what she did to the other dragons that made them despise her so. Being shunned by the other dragons caused resentment of her own kind to grow steadily in her heart and mind. This is what gave Tootsie a bad attitude and sometimes even cruel. Tootsie's live changed one day she was visiting the local unicorn for some medicine. When Tootsie walked in the unicorn's house she did not bother to wipe her feet on the carefully placed doormat. The unicorn noticed this and was bemused for he knew what manners all of the dragons had. He scorned Tootsie and told her to go back and wipe her feet on the doormat. Tootsie had never done such a thing, but she did as the unicorn asked of her. She later questioned the unicorn about why she had to do that and he replied that it was the polite thing to do. Tootsie had never even heard the word "polite" and the unicorn soon understood that Tootsie had never been taught manners. He the explained the rules of cordiality and Tootsie began to realize her social follies with the other dragons. From that day Tootsie was always polite and all of the dragons began to love her and treat her as one of their own.