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Next week, I’d like to write a story about a forbidden, unsupported, or unlikely love. I read the Native American Marriage Tales unit this week. “The Bear-Woman” jumped out at me when I read it and I thought it would be fun to write something along the same storyline. In the original story, a woman falls in love with a bear and keeps the relationship a secret to her family while continually insisting that she doesn’t want to marry. Eventually her family finds out about the affair and gathers all the villagers to kill the girl’s lover. I didn’t like that the story ended with both the girl and her lover being killed, so I’d like to make a different ending for my story. I also just watched beauty and the beast, which I think may be adding to my desire to write this story. Since I’m still not certain of where this story will head, I’m doing a planning post this week and hopefully will write this story out next week!
Characters
- A young girl in love, whom nobody takes seriously, except her love interest.
- The girl’s love interest… I’m not sure yet what this character will be like just yet but they will have some sort of displeasing characteristic that makes the girl’s family and friends plead with her to stay away.
- The girl’s parents. Both will care for their daughter and have her best interest at heart. However, they won’t realize that they’re doing more harm than good by trying to protect their daughter from a nonexistent evil.
- The girl's skeptical (but supportive)best friend.
Plot
A young woman will fall in love with an unlikely suitor and her relationship will not be accepted by her peers, and most importantly by her parents. Eventually, the girl will tire of hiding her relationship from everyone and come forth with the truth. In the end, her family will either learn to accept her lover or will lose her forever. The actual story will reveal which way things go.
Setting
I’m not clear on this yet either (hence the reason I’m doing a planning post, when I traditionally prefer to write right off the bat.) but I think it will be set in a small town where basically everybody knows everybody and everyone is interested in the outcome of the girl’s love life.
I’m hoping to use this story to convey the idea of acceptance and to show that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
Source
"Native American Marriage Tales", by Stith Thompson, online source
I actually read the same unit and found this story very interesting as well. I actually planned to write from it in one of my reading note posts, but ended up deciding on a different story. I also didn't like the fact that both the girl and bear died. Also, giving the character's names and strong personality would help to develop the story, maybe by providing more of a description for the main characters. I think your story will turn out amazing, I'm going to try to come back and read it. I'm excited to see how it will turn out! Great job.
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DeleteThe story sounds super unique, so I'm intrigued on what you'll do with it since you always manage to have wonderful stories :). I hope Beauty and Beast gives you lots of inspiration! Sounds like it could really work with this story. It seems like you've got some nice progress already, so I look forward to reading it next week! I'm excited to see the characters.
ReplyDeleteAwe, thanks for the vote of confidence. No pressure, right? Lol. Just kidding. I'm excited to bring this story to life!
DeleteI am looking forward to seeing what you end up doing with your story. I think that the original story has an interesting plot line, so I am excited to see how you adapt that into your own story. Maybe for the love interest he can have some type of job that the girl’s parents don’t like, or maybe he doesn’t come from a well off family and can’t go to college which the girl’s parents don’t like.
ReplyDeleteThanks Morgan. That's kind of along the lines of what I'm thinking actually. I was thinking he won't come from wealth or something like that. =)
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