Tjenare! Jag har en engelska läxa där man ska skriva en saga på 700-800 ord, blev nyss klar och min personliga åsikt om den är att jag gillar den skarpt. Men det är första gången jag lägger tankearbete bakom en saga så skulle uppskatta feedback innan jag skickar in den. Vad säger ni?
The Story about Mary-Ann
The year is 1973, a warm summer night in August and Mary-Ann, also called just Mary is sitting on the midnight train to Hollywood. Her dreams about become a famous movie star is just about to start. A whole new life is a head of her, just like the one she always has dreamed of.
She comes from a rich family in the southern part of the U.S. She has been born and raised in one of the biggest plantages in the whole Louisiana. The house that she use to live in was 400 square meters big with and had a big garden and a driveway up to the house that is at least 100 yards and in the summers, when the oak trees starts flower and the branches stretch over the road, it looks like a tunnel when you drive thru. The plantage with house and garden is often called “The heaven on Earth” because it’s been nominated as one of the finest houses in the whole U.S.
Mary is the only child in the family, after her brother’s death in the war down in Vietnam. Her father, James, who’s only wish, is that Mary keeps the house in the family after his death. James is sick of Cancer and has not long time left on this Earth. Which he very well knows about. Only 56 years old. Everybody in the whole County knows about it. Everyone, even his wife, Ann who denies it like everything is alright. She can’t even accept the fact that her oldest child is dead. Mary on the other half is a smart woman who accept the fact that her father is going to pass away in a close future which leaves her alone with the one person in the whole world she doesn’t like. Her mom, who has assaulted Mary in almost 20 years when James wasn’t around. Ann didn’t want a girl; she wanted at least 3 strong boys who could work out in the fields when James is too weak, but she got only one boy and a girl. Mary knew that she had to escape, she has been planning that since she was only 13 years. She always wanted to be famous movie star like the one’s she sees on the TV. She always wanted to be like Elizabeth Taylor or a new Marilyn Monroe. She even had posters on her room, not many, but a few. She even dressed up like them. James bought her nearly everything she wanted. “Only it doesn’t cost more than 50 US dollars we can buy it. Only the best is good enough for my little girl.” – James used to say and smile down to her. Mary drops a tear when she thinks about it, James always treated her well.
The train passes a family that’s out in the forest and camping, which reminds her of the time when her family was out hiking one day for many years ago. Mary most has been 10 years at the moment. She and her older brother Dwayne was trying to catch up the speed their parents had. Even now when she thinks about it she laughs silenced to herself. After a while she stops laughing but keeping the smile on her lips when she continuing to think back on the trip. They set up the camp on an open field in the middle of the forest. James, who loved being out camping in his youth told everything he know about the wild life. Mary loved it, and so did even her older brother. The only one that was complaining was Ann, who couldn’t stand out with all the bugs and noises. But everyone just laughed at her, not to be mean but just because everyone had a good time and one complains about strange noises in the forest. That was the first and the only trip the family did together because just a few years later Dwayne went to Vietnam. He took the recruit in June 1967, only 18 years old, and sailed out in March 1968 where he passed away just a few months later in a close combat outside the city Saigon. And now, five years later Mary is sitting on the midnight train to Hollywood to fulfill the dreams she dreamt of for so many years. She lies down and closes her eyes, and in that moment she leaves her old life behind.
Rubriken är lite B, det vet jag om och den kommer att ändras, men gramatiskt? Bra stycke indelning? Röd tråd igenom hela berättelsen? Slutet, ska det ändras?
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