Turkish Delight

We the third graders of Mr. A’s third-grade classroom gathered together on the carpet to listen to The Chronicles of Narnia as we did every Wednesday. We listened as one of the characters, Edmund, spent his time eating Turkish Delight. We imagined it was a mythical, luxurious chocolate treat. We were wrong; it was no such thing. Kristine’s dad brought our class two boxes of it from his recent travels in England. This was a thoroughly exciting event in classroom 3A. But disappointment soon came: Turkish Delight was not chocolate. It was horrible. It was fruity and sticky and gross.