By Sebastian Mendoza
MAIN QUESTION: WHAT INTERNAL IDENTITY SHIFTS ARE HAPPENING AS A PART OF THIS TRANSITON AND HOW DOES IT HELPS US BECOME BETTER VERSIONS OF OURSELVES?
Main Theme/Explination of Story:
Main Theme:
-This narrative is age-approppiate for High-School groups (Ages 15-18) based on its dark enveloped theme of loss and regret but also teacher aspiring readers the mature embodiment of reaching the next stage within symbolism of distorted human identities, unbounded attachment resolutions and emotional imprisonment of self-validation. This story will also teach students the important literacy factors of mythology, psychology and leveled-emotional outputs through ceartin sensationalized areas.
-Elizabeth (The Water Woman!): Escapes to her own deep traumas of emotional instability, guilt of previous fate and transition of detached values from family ties. Additonally, her character is attributed to her grief and secusion from the outside world, seen as 'indiffrent' or invalued until she departs on her own journey of life aspirations.
James (The Boat Man!): Depressed, divided and looking for the main change in his life, James embodies the sheer willpower of triumph over tragedy while derailed from his own personal identity due to his Wife's loss. Additonally, the boat significantlly reaches the peak of emotional burden as well as the house, leaving two shackles of fate for James to overcome within night's end.
The Guilt Of A Daughter's Past Shame:
Her name was Elizabeth! She had everything she wanted and more, but somehow, it was all missing
in value. Beneath the cruel depths of the ocean, her whole life was enclosed by fate's moton.
Elizabeth is the older sister while Emma is her younger sister!
Envious about her selfish choice,Emma pleads for Elizabeth to stay, a bold move by a dying mother's
wish who can barley breathe her own name. A heart virus has claimed her life , chips away at her soul and cracks open with rocks thrown out into the cold abyss.
Looking past her own reflection, Elizabeth danced in the revelation of mermaid wanting to become human, she pondered for a short minute while...
Her Mother's sickness grows like a distilled weed. In order for her daughters to get along, the false fallacy fractures should have come and gone, however, the damage is already done.
Elizabeth has had mixed feelings for a while, but she needs to live a life of freedom, not solitary while Emma chooses to stay behind and suffocate her sister's choice with the weight of the whole ocean seaboard upon her.
Surfacing to the real world, Elizabeth’s identity shapes into a
human rather than a mermaid while she feels guilt about leaving her Mother behind.