Assignment 6.1: Individual Story

Before embarking on the group's storybook, each member was to propose one story idea. Mine is alight story about family love, life cycles, and how each member takes care of each other.

Synopsis: Memories of grandma's lovingly helping Kate in her first steps flashed back as she now, in turn, is helping grandma taking each small step around the hospital bed. The story does not have a rich plot, but intends to use poetry and imagery to get its message across in a gentle way.

The story is suitable for children from 6-7 years old.

1. Intro of character

Once there was a little girl called Kate, who lived with her grandmother in a household of four.

Her father was not usually at home. He's on his business trip most of the time.

Her mother was always busy, finding her way back home tired and moody.

Big brother studied far from home; he only made a phone call back once or twice a month.

Only grandma stayed at home, did all the housework and took care of Kate.

2.One day after school, Kate came back to find nobody at home.
3.Grandma had been taken away, on an ambulance to a hospital nearby
4. After a long fight, grandma was alright, able to sit up, but had to learn how to walk again.

5. Kate was entrusted with helping her grandma take each step around the small bed.

----Scene 6 to 10: Kate came back that night on a bus. The rain started falling hard. She looked out of the window; everything was blurred in the rain. She started to remember the nice days on the seashore, where grandma took her every fine morning, and helped her to walk her first steps on the seaside. -----

6.

Looking out the bus window, what did she see,

The rain was so heavy and the sky so gloomy

Around her, people were sitting,

With their own thoughts that each of them were pursuing,

Or perhaps nothing

What was in her eyes ,

Closer than the gloomy sky,

And the heavy rain, the wind's cry

7. A beach, a peaceful sea,

On whose gentle waves the sun places its kisses

8. With her tiny feet toddling on the seashore,

In clanging peals laugh our little girl

In excitement, or perhaps in fear

9. But what's the difference?

When beloved grandma was standing behind,

Holding her tight and helping her to try

Her very first steps

On the seaside.