My own novel!!!!!!!!

Ok, I completely agree with Mr. Lynn's statement that "everything happens for a reason" because I finished this post but accidently clicked something without saving the post and well I am trying to believe that it was all for the best.......


I prepared a story line last summer so that it can be submitted to the Literary Journal but I don't know what happened, I sank in because of the course load. Anyways, the story focuses on the stability of each moment in our life. I have always believed that there is a fine line between coincidence and fate, and that CHANCE IS THAT FINE LINE...........


Listen:
A young and ambitious girl was bidding goodbye to her apprehensive father who was sweating as if he was going to take the MCAT exams. She assured her father that she was going to be just fine, and that she was going to pursue her higher education. After her father leaving, she had to wait an extra hour for the train was late. She was going to gently step foot on the massive train, but then she felt a strange emotion to turn and look back......She did!!!! So it goes...


A sudden feeling prompted her to purchase a bottle of water, which she did. She was gulping it down as if she tasted water for the first time. Little did she know that the massive train slowly chooed its way out of the station.....She ran but was unable to catch up with that mode of transport. She left the station questioning WHY this happened? FOR WHAT? It is always easier to ask questions rather than to answer them.
She was terrified and shocked by the news which reached her the next day. Apparently, the train never reached the destination and nobody knew about its whereabouts! She thanked that moment of time which dragged and prompted her to step out of that machine, which completely changed her life.


This is the summary of that story line! I have seen many boast, many weep, many break down over small unimportant details but none looks at the bigger picture! Vonnegut through this novel wants us to evaluate ourselves by considering the half-full versions of our moments.


Similarly, I wanted to question the validity of chance and coincidence in our lives. If we focus on the pleasant aspect of a situation and shape the present, the future tends to be pleasant and rewarding. If we focus on the negative, there would be no pleasant emotion to fill in the emptiness. Let's consider this example: If Vonnegut did not write Slaughterhouse-Five, we would not be writing this very post.


I wanted my novel (or story line) to remind the general public about the validity of each of our lives. We are fragile beings  climbing the ladder of fate and chance with a flaw leading us downhill into the pitch of darkness to emerge again. Let us focus on the positive and IGNORE THE NEGATIVE as there will always be wars, conflicts, irritation, and quest for power. We can always pave the way for a change as the leader says, BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THIS WORLD....


By: Parvathy

Livin in the Brown World

If I was to write a novel I would base it mainly on my culture, my life, and everyday situations an individual has to face. I would write about the brown life and how different and similar life is to other cultures. This way people of other cultures can gain knowledge about different cultures. The novel would talk about family issues, highschool life, and struggle for the future and it would also talk about environmental issues, basically global warming and the destruction of the world, 2012!!!!!!!! Because that's all that I hear about nowadays, natural destruction, moon's coming closer to the Earth, and DOOM'S DAY like come on who cares if the world's going to end, we are all going to die one day or another and after we die will we only know if we are truly stuck in time. But I really don't think that the world is going to end becuase of all the brown scientists and physicists that are going to save the world and one day the brown's will rule the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


By: Puja

Potweeting through time....

I woke up on a mid summer day ready to carry on with the daily business but was welcomed by a large gush of wind and storming thunder. I heard the loud "rum" of the cars steering out of the driveway as my parents were leaving for work. I stood up and went back to bed and so it was. It was unusually cold at that moment and I felt a sudden gush of wind on my face.


My face was about to solidify as I opened my eyes and stepped out of Air Canada which landed close to 18:00 on a mid winter day. The plane was humangous and I felt like a grain of sand when compared to the massive machinery. Let me tell the truth, I felt as if I owned the whole universe or as if I was the President of the United States. Well I felt as if I was part of the FBI entering a secret location with an expensive suit and a $500,000 German Maybach waiting for my arrival. Returning to reality, I didn't have a Maybach waiting but I did find my dad's Chevrolet waiting outside of the Pearson. I was eager to step onto the car and begin my journey onto a new world.


The car was travelling at a high speed which was evident from the flashing objects outside, and I dared to open the window in this crucial weather. A sudden splash awoke me as I saw my mom pouring cold water onto my face so that I would wake up and get on with the usual routine. I jumped up and asked where the car went? My mom gave me a sneer as if I was insane!! I was not INSANE at that point since I did not take Physics at the time. I realized that it was not raining anymore but sunnyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! I was not in North America, I was in Asia and I was not the President.....YET!


By: Parvathy

Good, Banned & the Published

If someones stops and stares at an object and comments negatively we can be certain that the object has changed his/her perspective. Similarly, Slaughterhouse Five had made a significant impact on the literary world. The banning of this publication showed how truthful and powerful the text was in showing the true American culture and society. Kurt Vonnegut mainly stated his view of how his experience in the second world war meant to him. In my opinion, should not literature allow individuals to express their point of view? A novel if does not set one thinking is not worth a shelf room, but I am certain that Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse has broken the rules of ignorance for this literature opens the eyes of individuals who are unaware of their surrounding. Censoring such a novel would not impact greatly in the world of education, in fact, such a novel will shed light on the true nature of war, giving the students views upon which they can arrive at their own conclusion. How would you feel about your creative piece of writing expressing your inner feelings be banned? We have also seen this attitude towards Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) which was also banned due to sexual promiscuity and anti-Christian references. In all, we believe that these novels should be praised for breaking the barrier in literature of dutifying matter and hats off for these novels for revealing the true nature of life.


By: Parvathy & Puja