Beauty Angara

          THE OLD TALE IN A NEW STYLE
The author is the ecological class of  Severobaikalsk center of foreign languages.

 Dear friends! We would like to tell you the old tale in a new style. You know it perfectly. This story is about Siberian Great Rivers and Lake Baikal.
  So, once upon a time Angara was ill and her father Baikal was troubled about her health.

Baikal:
Angara, my dear daughter! Where are you going? Why? Don’t leave me, lovely. Stop!

Angara tells him about the situation around her.

 Angara:
I wouldn’t like to be ill, but the water is so dirty, so poisoned, that it is impossible for me to stay here. I’m so ill. Dear father, can you ask the Factory not to emit harmful substances into the water? ! Maybe after that I ‘ll try to change my mind.

Her father was troubled about it and he decided to carry out her request.

Baikal:
Factory, why do you pollute my clean water? My daughter is ill. I can lose her. And the reason is you. Why? Why do you do it?

The Factory:
I can’t stop the pollution of Lake Baikal, because it depends not only on me. It depends on angry and greedy Official. He pollutes Lake Baikal and earns much money with my help. I can do nothing. And what can you do? Go to the Official!

Baikal decided to go to the Official and asked him about this problem.

Baikal:
Official, close the Factory, please. You are killing the all environment. Oh, you will kill everything and everyone by your pollution. So, what will you do? Please, close the Factory!

The Official doesn’t want to do it. He is toying with  poor Lake Baikal, because it’s impossible for him to close the Factory. It’s the main source for getting money.

The Official:
Oh, no. I don’t want to close the Factory, because I like money very much.

Then Irkut decided to go to Angara with his suggestion about their flight. He loves Angara very much.

Irkut:
Dear Baikal! I love your daughter and I want to run away with Angara. I know that people and the Factory are polluting the environment around you. I’d like to help you.

But Angara doesn’t love him, so she promises to think. Angara understands that she doesn’t have a choice.

Angara:
Oh, dear Irkut! You are so kind. But I’m not sure, that I’m ready for the flight. I promise you that I’ll think about your suggestion.

After this the Official knows about their decision. He is angry. Soon he thinks on his new invention.

The Official:
Oh, Angara wants to run away with Irkut, because he is clean. Well, let’s do a pipeline to pour waste from the Factory into his water.

But Angara finds out about his cruel plans and her decision is changed.

Angara:
I’m sorry, Irkut, but I changed my mind and I don’t want to go with you. You are in danger. I know, you can die, if people build a pipeline. I don’t want this. So I think we can’t run away.

Irkut understands this problem too. He is sorry that he can’t take Angara, because he wants to live too.

Irkut:
I’m sorry, Baikal, but I can’t run away with your daughter. If the Factory emits pollutants into my water, soon I’ll die. I don’t want it. I want to live.

Baikal can’t find a way, which can help him with his daughter. But soon he gives a speech on television to find friends who would like to help him.

Baikal:
Humanity, I kindly ask you. Save me and save my daughter. I was so clean and pure but someone, bureacrat, polluted me and all places where I live. Help me people!

After Baikal’s speech Yenisey came to him to save Angara.

Yenisey:
Beauty Angara! You are so clean and transparent, that I love you at first sight. Run away with me. We’ll be together forever! I’m strong and beautiful and you are tender. We must be together!

Angara loves him too, besides she doesn’t see any way to solve the problem.

Angara:
Yes, you are right! I agree to run away with you.

But the Official is always  near. He knows about their decision and makes another plan, which can destroy his business, but he can’t understand it.

The Official:
Oh, oh! ... Angara has run away! I need to stop her. I must buy chemicals and pestisides and throw them into her water.

 But after his plan Baikal dropped The Shaman-kamen which bloked  the way for pesticides.
After Angara’s flight Baikal gets ill, because everything around him is polluted.

Baikal:
I don’t want to die. I want to live. Maybe my dear daughter will have better life than I. Can anybody help me?

During this moment the Factory  sees everything happening around Baikal and his Great Rivers.

The Factory:
The land around Baikal is dying and I see how fish and nature are dying. I think, that the reason is in me. So I should stop my work. It will be better for everybody.

At this time the Official is looking at the Factory without work. Now he understood that he was wrong.

The Official:
Oh-oh-oh !
            How did I get that idea to spend all my money for pesticides and chemicals!  Baikal stopped the water with them and the Factory stopped his work! Now I’m without money at all, because I spent all my money for my mad idea .The Factory doesn’t give me money any more! SOMEBODY, HELP ME!!!

But everybody tells him:

Baikal:           HELP YOURSELF!
Angara:           HELP YOURSELF!
Irkut:            HELP YOURSELF!
Yenisey:          HELP YOURSELF!
The Factory:      HELP YOURSELF!

Together:         HELP YOURSELF!!!

Severobaikalsk
1998