The Ugly Duckling (The Visually Challenged Duckling)

Semeniaka Olena, group A-1

Each member of the progressive society is deeply struck by the dramatic destiny of the well-known Visually Challenged Duckling. Those who are really devoted to the defense of the minorities’ rights ought to pay very strong attention to his personal history. Everyone should be aware of all the sufferings the Visually Challenged Duckling had to bear only because of his original appearance.
There is persuasive evidence that our hero was uniquely coordinated and gravitationally challenged in comparison with his brothers and sisters. These notable peculiarities were not properly estimated neither by his own mother, nor by his close companions. Since his childhood he had been constantly treated as a socially challenged person. The other ducks considered their relative to be a turkey. A Duck of Spanish blood tactlessly said that he actually should have been improved. Moreover, the Visually Challenged Duckling was dangerously injured for several times by different birds in the farm-yard. At last he ran away in order to save life.
Since then the Visually Challenged Duckling became residentially flexible. Wild ducks agreed to stand the Visually Challenged Duckling only on the condition that he should not desire to marry one of their families. Even the sporting dogs refused to bite him. Besides, he had serious disagreements with the chronologically challenged woman, her cat, and her hen that did not see the inner value of his personality. The Visually Challenged Duckling left their home, too. But since winter came he had to struggle for his life again. A peasant carried the half-dead Duckling home, but he lost all the credibility to other beings and escaped. Finally, when the winter passed the Duckling met beautiful royal birds, white swans, who wanted them to kill him.
But at this moment the Visually Challenged Duckling realized that he was no more visually challenged. He was the same as these beautiful royal birds. The swans emotionally swam around the new-comer and greeted him politely. His disadvantaged and marginalized position in society was in the past. Without this episode the history of the protection of minorities’ rights would be totally incomplete.