Week 3 Story:
Source. Indian Myth and Legend by Donald
A. Mackenzie
This story was inspired by the line "swallow the sun" in the story Battle with Khara. I got the idea of something actually swallowing the sun. I needed a character to swallow the sun so my first thought was darkness. I like how Pixar makes inanimate alive. So, I thought about how darkness must feel.
This story was inspired by the line "swallow the sun" in the story Battle with Khara. I got the idea of something actually swallowing the sun. I needed a character to swallow the sun so my first thought was darkness. I like how Pixar makes inanimate alive. So, I thought about how darkness must feel.
Darkness
has been around for all of the time. Every day he resides in the cracks, every day
he lurks under the beds, and every day he remains anywhere that he can stay
hidden. When the moon lays upon the sky, he swallows the sun so that he can spread
for relief and finally be free. Darkness got tired of always having to hide. So,
one day, he decided he didn’t want to spit out the sun from deep within his
tummy. All that he wanted was to stay out and play. He wanted to be able to be
alongside all the kids. He always wanted all of those fun activities like riding
bicycles and going swimming. But when the light didn’t come neither did all the
children. He waited and waited but no one came, and after a while, he started
peeking in the windows to see what was going on. He was so surprised to see how
sad all the children were. They were so sad that they couldn’t go out and play.
Darkness didn’t want them to feel sad as sadness was all too familiar to
Darkness. He decided that their happiness was worth saving. He allowed the sun
to once again shine bright, but this meant that darkness was forced back into his
lonely world, the cracks, corners, and closets where he is forced to reside. He
was reduced again to peeking through with loneliness in his eyes and vicariously
experiencing joy through those who experienced the light. The light never
realized how sad darkness was. The light started to try to think of a solution that
could help make him happy. Finally, the light had the idea of a shadow. If darkness
could experience the light while still getting to be himself. So, when the sun
was rising light gifted darkness with shadow. Darkness finally got to be a part
of the world he always yearning to be a part of.
Hello Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you personified darkness and made us feel bad for him. It was an interesting choice to make darkness seem almost childlike, but I think that it made it easier for the reader to sympathize with the darkness. I also liked that even though the darkness wronged the light, the light still pitied the darkness and helped him experience daytime and joy.
Hello Brittany! I like how you personified both light and darkness, but you moved outside of the realm of right and wrong. You instead made the more human by showing their desires in an understanding light! I also really enjoyed that you incorporated their resolution to help explain shadows within the world. It’s definitely a believable story. Nice Job!
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