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Ivan looked and looked, digging into the snow with his thickly mittened fingers; but he could not find his soul. Determined, Ivan kept digging. He kept digging with those mittens for a half hour or so. It was probably closer to twenty minutes, but it was a long, long time, because of the cold and the snow, so he was really frustrated, and it felt like a half hour.

"Where are you, my salvation... my soul", Ivan moaned, looking up at the sun. The sun symbolized God for him when he talked to it like that. Also, his mittened fingers were curled into claws (even though you couldn’t see them, all you could see was a close up on his face and the mittens).

The sun was in his eyes and he looked really in pain. He wasn’t crying, because he had been through a lot, and had been toughened. But he was really in anguish. The lines on his forehead were wrinkled and his whole face had that look of hurt on it. I can't describe to you how in pain he was - words just can't get at how he felt. After being in real pain like this for a few minutes, which seemed like lots and lots more time than it actually was, maybe even one hour, Ivan sat down. But he was sitting on a box! “What the...”, Ivan said.

He opened up the box with the back of a hammer he had brought with him, and after taking out all the nails, he put the lid aside and looked in. It was his soul, all glittering and gold, and his soul shined golden on his face. There were diamonds and gems and other jewels in the box, around his soul, which was like diamond letters in gold. It said “S-O-U-L”.

“YES!”, Ivan said, "MY SOUL!". He had found his soul. He took it out of the box, put it around his neck, like a necklace, and walked off. He took the other jewels and gems from the box but he left his hammer, the box and the box lid behind him. He had a long way to walk through the snow, but he had found his lost soul, despite the almost hopeless situation.

Date Written: February 25, 2005
Author: Benny Maniacs
Average Vote: 3.4444