What does the story of The Star Beast tell us about human nature? The star beast is a short story by Nicholas Grey

Some professors looked at it; they were “far from silly.”  They decided that he was “oddly human.” They gave him a plate and a cup but they did not give him a knife as they thought that it was dangerous for him to have possession of a weapon. This shows that they think he is a beast and capable of being dangerous. They keep him in a cage which shows shows that they think that it is below them and human are above everything else. Whenever he wanted to say something to defend his case the experts would say “parrot talk!”  

The professors of “living and dead languages” taught it simple speech. After a week he wanted to speak to them however they just replied “parrot talk” and “laughed loudly”          even after a lot of talking human still do not listen to him and instead framing him as a beast that does not know anything. The beast will be feeling a mixture of angriness and sadness.

The worst people were the next the group of professors who did not hurt him just emotionally but physically as well. One of the professors “hit the creature with his walking cane” and in sorrow the beast “covered its face with its hands.”  This is unacceptable and is an unexpected twist in the story. The story tells us “No one likes to be set on a level with a beast” and that tells us that the human will not let the beast speak and they do not have any sorrow for him if he is hurt emotionally or physically.  

After this all they decide that they will cell him to a circus, a small price was given to the farmers who found the thing in the first place and the rest to the people that make weapons for the war. Luckily the man who owned the circus did not believe in being brutal to the animals as he thought they do not learn that way. The beast did not enjoy working at the circus because he was not used to the high pressure. When he was forced to do his stunts he would plead “Oh stop!” but no one would listen. The crowd also do not show any unhappiness for him but instead they would sshout and call names at him.

The circus owner got fed up and put him in a cage for no one to see him again but one night he escaped the cage and ran off in to the wilderness and the then was killed by a hunter because the story says” the last glimpse that anyone saw of him was by a hunter”.

The sad ending of the story sums it up for me as it gives me a conclusion that human can be horrible and think they are better than any creature of animal. The story also tells me that in every bad  there is good because of the farmer and his wife who cared for him and if it was not for them the beast would have been killed at the start if the story