Thursday, August 31, 2017

Week 2 Story: Love Has No Boundaries

(Image Information: Love Knows No Bounds
Andrew Mager Source: Flickr)

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A girl once fell in love with a boy.
She admired the way he laughed, and he admired the way she smiled.
The way they were able to understand each other, making loving each other that much easier.

Every day was a new adventure.
She would learn something new about him.
He would learn something new about her.
There was not a day that went by that they weren't together.

As they grew older, the relationship became even more special.
She could tell someone all of his bad habits.
He could tell someone all of her favorite movies.

The day had arrived. 
The day that girls always dream about.
The day a girl is asked to marry the guy of her dreams.

While the boy could have gone straight to the girl,
the boy visited the girl's father.
Approaching the house, the boy was ready to the girl's father for her daughter's hand in marriage.
As he arrived at the door, he told the girl's parents his desire to marry their daughter.

At last, the father said, "You both are completely different religions. My daughter will not be able to live the life we intended for her and her future family if she marries someone that is not within our religion." 
The boy expressed his desire to be with the girl and said he would do anything to be with her. His love for her mattered the most. He vowed to convert to the same religion in order to marry the father's daughter. The boy left intending to return to marry their daughter.

When the boy came back again to the parents of the girl, he told them that he had decided to convert to the same religion. He had no objections. The only thing he wanted was to marry their daughter. They simply smiled and said, "We are sorry. We still cannot accept this marriage proposal. You may ask to marry her, but she will not accept, as we have told her we would not be accepting this marriage. "

Love has no boundaries. 

Author's Note: I decided to emulate the same style that Aeosep did in his lion fable titled "The Lion in Love". I wanted to express a simple message just as Aesop did in his fable regarding love. While I know that in Aesop's fable the message was about a lion loving a girl, I did a more 21st century take away message about a girl and a guy loving each other, but from completely different religions. I kept it very vague, so readers could come up with their own perception of the characters. I also put the takeaway message in italics at the end as a closing, just as Aesop did in his fable. 

Bibliography: "The Lion in Love" from Aesop's Fables: The Lion by Joseph Jacobs. Web source.

4 comments:

  1. Hi! This was an excellent story! Nice job! The whole time I was reading it, I was wondering which story you were remaking, but it makes complete sense after reading the author's note. It's so different from "The Lion in Love", but at the same time, it is really similar! Wow, that was awesome! I also liked your takeaway message "Love has no boundaries."

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  2. Hi Sonali!

    Wow, I love the way that you modernized such a cool story from Aesop's tales! I really loved the way it flowed and it was different enough that I didn't know what I was reading a rewrite of until the end. I wonder what would happen next... did the daughter follow her parent's wishes or did she rebel against them and do her own thing? I feel like it could go either way for this and I would love to know what happened, although I guess that is part of the freedom of a reader to make their own ending and interpret it in their own ways.

    Your wording and writing style was great for a story like this! I wonder what such a story would be like from the girl's perspective? What if she wrote him a letter in a sequel of sorts to this piece in which they are able to share their own emotions? I really enjoyed this story and the way it was so poetic!

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  3. Hi Sonali!

    I really enjoyed reading this story! You did a great job making this story your own. I liked that you put the picture first, because it gets the reader thinking before even reading your story. I wonder if the story would have seemed as poetic if it was formatted differently? I loved that you formatted it the way you did, because it made it feel poetic before I even started reading it! I also loved that you put the theme in italics like the original story! Very creative! I enjoyed reading this story and cannot wait to see what else you write!

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  4. Great story Sonali!

    I loved reading this because you truly made the story show your style of writing! I also think you made the writing very artistic which added to the beauty of the words you wrote. I wonder if you could maybe do another story but in the sense of the girl rather than the guy. Overall great job!

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