Story Design: El club secreto de Pepe y Pedro

As part of today's class, story design steps, I must post this story, written in less than 20 min.

El club secreto de Pepe y Pedro

En el pequeño pueblo de Manzana Verde Roja-azul, Pepe va a visitar a su amigo Pedro, que vive en la calle de atrás. Sale de su casa. Voltea al cielo y una gota de agua salpica sus lentes. Se cubre la cabeza con la capucha de su sudadera. Con sus recién cumplidos 11 años, Pepe y Pedro son los fundadores de un club secreto en el que están los chicos más grandes de su cuadra. Ellos dos.

El motivo de su visita, es secreto. La mamá de Pedro lo castigó por una pelea en la escuela con los miembros de otro club. Les robaron un documento muy importante y secreto, este fue el motivo del problema.

Pepe camina y llega a la esquina, da vuelta. A lo lejos ve a Karla con su enorme perro. Ella es el temor de todos lo chicos. Asusta e intimida a todos. Ella sostiene el sobre con el documento. Al llegar a la esquina, está la casa de Pedro, él, ve por la ventana. Pepe debe tomar el documento, todos sus secretos están ahí. Ella lo abre lentamente. Pedro le hace señas a Pepe. Él, corre; ella, lo examina y lo lee.

El tiempo se detiene. Karla se sonroja, Pepe la mira. Todo está perdido. Pedro contempla la escena desde su prisión. Ella voltea y ve a Pedro en su ventana, él tiembla y desaparece.
Karla se acerca lentamente a Pepe. Él, cierra los ojos. Un beso cerca del labio. El documento está en sus manos. Ella se aleja riendo, lo sabe todo. Pepe la ama, la hermana de Pedro, la mejor amiga de Karla sería el contacto. Ella tiene 12, sería imposible.

El secreto terminó.

 

El club secreto de Pepe y Pedro by Nicolás Bravo Q. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

John Keats. Ode to a Nightingale part VII

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JOHN KEATS

ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

VII

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!    

No hungry generations tread thee down;  

The voice I hear this passing night was heard   

In ancient days by emperor and clown: 

Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 

Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,  

She stood in tears amid the alien corn;        

The same that ofttimes hath   

Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam  

Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Sonnet "155"

With some class vocabulary on Shakespeare's sonnets I must wrote my own.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare was born in 1564, he died in 1616. Shakespeare was an English writer and actor, he is also considered as the most important and influent writer of English language.

There is a lot of speculation about his life and works but we know that he existed, even there is a little information about his life, there are registries of his work in London, where he worked as a play-writer and actor, and in Stratford, where he lived and married.

His plays were presented in some important scenarios: The Theatre and The Globe are some examples.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh was an English writer, politician and he was also a pirate.
He was Queen's Elizabet I protected and he fought Irish rebels, he also founded Virginia colony in the U.S. He also search El Dorado in an expedition.

He was imprisoned for conspiracy against Jacob I. He died decapitated in 1618. He was also friends with Edmund Spencer.

Some of his poems are:

-The Lie
-What is our life
-The ocean to Cynthia
-A Farewell to False Love

                                             

Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies,
A mortal foe and enemy to rest,
An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,
A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,
A way of error, a temple full of treason,
In all effects contrary unto reason...

Literature in the English Middle Ages

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According to different countries and languages, medieval literature was the starting era of our modern vision of books. we have some examples as English Beowulf, Germanic Nibelung's Ring story, French Chanson de Roldan and some other old books.

What is the most incredible thing about this period, is that books were not meant for all public, like for example workers. Reading and writing was reserved for intellectuals, rich people and clerics.

The books of this era are, in its majority, narrations taken from old legends, for example epic poems with ancient Celtic, Greek or Nordic mythology; Arthurian knights era or greatest travelers and knights (Mio Çid, Don Quixote, even Marco Polo)

We can see that art was also present in books, big colored illustrations and typographies could be found on ancient books, this is a plus for this craftsmanships.

We can also found some allegories or representations of concepts like in Dante's Divine Comedy.

Maybe this period help modern literature to established but i think writing and sharing thoughts and ideas is part of human behavior, from hieroglyphics to latin letters humans always wanted to share emotions, historical events, triumphs, tales, legends, poems and whatever description or thought is in our minds.

No matter the language, copyright restrictions and other stuff, written expression would always be considered as a masterpiece of art, the stories form the times of kings and knights are still with us thanks to written languages.

Bayeux Tapestry

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According to artistic way of thinking, art is the perfect media for leaving an event in the world. The best examples are pictures and paintings, sculptures and big carved stones and of course and why not a tapestry.

This piece in particular is absolutely awesome, I bet that  in the museum is better but... searching and reading about it you can only think that the work in it is awesome.

Handmade of course, years and tons of wool and colors, also centuries is what this piece represents.

It is the 1066 Battle of Hastings story what is told in here. I like it a lot because of the details, colors, images, and the most important part the historical event and its narration. Images can say lots more than words.

I have found a video where you can see in detail with a well done animation some details. It is a 4 min and something long video from you tube.

Why is baseball a metaphor for life?

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Life is full of rules and so are sports. In life, sometimes you must run and do some home runs, you've got to be fast, frequently the fastest in all you do so you are always ranking on top.

Life makes you play your best strategies to beat down your opponents and it also makes you do your best.

In my opinion life is a game and according on how well you play its how well positioned you'll be.