diff --git a/src/com/company/Apple.java b/src/com/company/Apple.java
index 982c9b4..e10e17f 100644
--- a/src/com/company/Apple.java
+++ b/src/com/company/Apple.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package com.company;
 
-import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.Date;
 
 /**
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ public class Apple extends Item {
     private Date bestByDate;
 
     public Apple() {
-        super("apple", "A delicious red apple.", true);
+        super("Pencil", "An ordinary looking orange pencil", true);
         birthdate = new Date();
         bestByDate = new Date(birthdate.getTime() + 5*60);
     }
diff --git a/src/com/company/Main.java b/src/com/company/Main.java
index 9c453eb..e4297e6 100644
--- a/src/com/company/Main.java
+++ b/src/com/company/Main.java
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 package com.company;
 
-import java.util.Scanner;
-
 public class Main {
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
@@ -17,7 +15,6 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
         // offer help, since this is the player's first time playing
         String prompt = input.readLine(curRoom.getDescription()+ " Type your command. If you need help, type 'help.'");
 
-
         while(true) {
             String[] words = prompt.split(" ");
             String directObject = words[words.length-1];
diff --git a/src/com/company/Pencil.java b/src/com/company/Pencil.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4116da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/com/company/Pencil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package com.company;
+
+public class Pencil extends Item {
+
+    public Pencil () {
+        super("Pencil", "An ordinary looking orange pencil", false);
+    }
+    public Pencil(String name, String description) {
+        super(name, description, false);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String handle(String s) {
+        if(s.equalsIgnoreCase("examine")) {
+            return this.getDescription();
+        }
+        else if(s.equalsIgnoreCase("Paint")){
+            this.setDescription("The pencil now is yellow.");
+            return this.getDescription();
+        }
+        else if(s.equalsIgnoreCase("Write")) {
+            return "The Communist League, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a\n" +
+                    "secret one, under conditions obtaining at the time, commissioned us, the undersigned, at the\n" +
+                    "Congress held in London in November 1847, to write for publication a detailed theoretical and\n" +
+                    "practical programme for the Party. Such was the origin of the following Manifesto, the\n" +
+                    "manuscript of which travelled to London to be printed a few weeks before the February [French]\n" +
+                    "Revolution [in 1848]. First published in German, it has been republished in that language in at\n" +
+                    "least twelve different editions in Germany, England, and America. It was published in English for\n" +
+                    "the first time in 1850 in the Red Republican, London, translated by Miss Helen Macfarlane, and\n" +
+                    "in 1871 in at least three different translations in America. The French version first appeared in\n" +
+                    "Paris shortly before the June insurrection of 1848, and recently in Le Socialiste of New York. A\n" +
+                    "new translation is in the course of preparation. A Polish version appeared in London shortly after\n" +
+                    "it was first published in Germany. A Russian translation was published in Geneva in the sixties1\n" +
+                    ".\n" +
+                    "Into Danish, too, it was translated shortly after its appearance";
+        }
+        else {
+            return "I don't know how to "+ s + "a pencil";
+        }
+    }
+}