*this piece is something my class does every friday. we look at a picture from an old police gazette and write a piece on what we see, what the situation is etc. the picture in this one was a woman in the middle of a crowd with two soldiers standing behind her as she kisses a dagger. please enjoy ^_^
The very soldiers that in days past were marching beside my sweet darling stand behind me now. They hold their bayonets with cold, sharp and skilled intensity radiating off them in waves stronger than the shots from those same weapons. But, eventually, they fade away. Waiting in my last hour makes each second drag in the ironic illusion that I have all the time in the world. But in reality I don't even have minutes to live, nor do I have the strength to stand in the defiant end I thought it would be. My legs give out. I am on the cold, crumbling, unforgiving ground clutching my husband's lowly dagger. The only thing remaining of him and all our work. The rest, he included, were burned and buried. I tried to run, as we always did, but the "soldiers" caught me. The ungrateful robots hurt no hair on my head. For unmentionable prices, they told me they would let me go, out of the "kindness of
their hearts." My answer is stated in this position in which I kneel, death advancing. I let no tears fall because I have none
left, I kiss the last token of my beloved and I look into the faces of each soldier, ready for death, the fate of a criminal, of a
rogue soldier, of an idealist, of a dreamer.
*I would like to expand on this story but it would be very helpful if I had some help. It's kind of obvious that I have to expand on what happened before this scene but I'm kind of stuck in that department. Sorry to give you the ending scene in the story w/o like any other explanation but I just wrote about the picture!
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Well, for a start, you're painting a picture of a woman who was in love with a revolutionary. My first question is: what were the two fighting against? What were they fighting for? What did the government do to them? Were they organizing others? What laws did they fight? What was her man like? What did they do to get the attention of the authorities? How were they caught?
Try reading the comic book "V for Vendetta" - it's far better than the movie (which itself isn't bad!), and it gives a wonderful summary of a lot of revolutionary intrigue themes. Animal Farm by George Orwell would be a good place to look for some inspiration, too, as would history - any material about the French Revolution during the WWII occupation of Germany might prove fertile ground in which to grow the seed of an idea which you've presented here.
Keep working at it - I hear a story here!
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