Henry's Journey to Save the Ocean

Chapter 2: The Idea

Henry was sleeping after a long day at the beach. The problem was that he couldn't sleep at all. He was up all night thinking about the ocean and how people keep throwing trash in it. He thought to himself, "What can I do to help the ocean and clean it so that every single sea creature can live peacefully without any trash being dumped into the ocean?" Then he came up with something. He thinks that he can make some sort of community where they can clean up beaches that are full of trash. "What a fantastic idea," He said to himself.

The next morning he ran downstairs to explain his idea to his mom. Henry's mom said," That's a good idea son". Henry thought of gathering multiple people to join his community. He started inviting his friends. At first, his friends didn't want to join but then Henry started convincing them to join by explaining what could happen if trash is left in the ocean. He said "After doing some research, I saw that when we throw our trash in the ocean, marine wildlife actually consumes the trash because they think it's food." His friend Joey replied, "Why should we care about the fish?" Then Henry immediately replied, "Do you not realize that we eat fishes? The fishes could have little bits of microplastics in them, brother". Mikey then said "What here are? I've been eating a lot of fish lately. Is there a chance I might have eaten plastic?" Henry said, "Of course.

Mikey and Joey agreed to help Henry clean up trash in the ocean. Henry also asked his science teacher to join his community, the science teacher happily agreed to join Henry's community. Henry made his own social media, posting photos and videos of him and his community picking up trash. At first social media wasn't growing but as time went on the account started becoming popular. Henry and friends were very excited. His mother was very proud and his science was just happy that he's now famous.

Henry's mother shared some tips on how they could get money from this community service that they're doing. Henry's mother said that they could clean up beaches and in return, the owner of the beach can pay them. The amount of money is based on how many kilograms of trash that they have cleaned up. Henry said that's a wonderful idea. The next day they went to clean up a beach, and they got paid 54$. Henry thought that they could keep this thing going.