The two of them shined above the earth, looking down on it and its vast emptiness. They dreamed about how they could create life on the planet below them, how they could create lives that would mimic the love that they shared with one another. They spent milleniums discussing how this could happen and what they could do. Starton and Starla had engaged in intercourse hoping they could expand their family but it was unsuccessful. Starla knew she needed a way to spread dust from one of them onto the earth.
They had tried to fly down but could never leave their destination in the heavens. Starton knew that one of them would have to die. He contemplated the dilemma and knew he didn’t want to be the one to die, no matter how much he loved her. They continued to discuss the situation but Starton grew tired of listening to her dreams and Starla began to grow bored and become agitated. She began to notice a change in Starton. Starton had started resenting her ambition and her ridiculous obsession. Starla had finally had enough, she knew what he was going to do and knew that she must act first. She flew into the wind, picked up speed and began to circle Starton, with her top two points she severed his bottom left point. Starton screamed and began to plead for his life but Starla just continued to watch as he began to fall through the heavens and down to earth. After only a matter of minutes she began to feel relief that he was gone. Starla could now enjoy the heavens and not have to listen to Starton’s negativity about her dreams.
The next morning she awoke and looked down, where Startons body had landed, lay a man and a woman side by side. She continued to watch throughout the years and as time went by, man had began to multip...
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...to create a world full of people that could experience the same as they had. Starla’s act of violence by killing Starton explains why man has violent tendencies, why they become impatient, and how selfishness come about. Once Starla knew how irritated and selfishness Starton had become, she wanted nothing more than for her dream to come true and be able to enjoy watching it play out alone. It shows how time changes man. The two that once loved each other more than anything grew tired and aggravated. Man on earth continued to act in the manner they were “conceived.” They were conceived through violence and they proceed to develop a society full of such. Man made society into a place filled with selfish behaviors and violent actions toward one another. Starla and Starton also are examples of how dreams and ambition can become reality but not without sacrifice.
About thirty years ago there was a young girl in love with her boyfriend. One day, he convinced her to take their relationship to the next level, telling her how deeply he cared. A couple weeks later, she found out that she had become pregnant, and decided it was best to hide it from him. They kept in close contact over the next few months, and he told her that they would be together forever. When her father realized that she was having a baby without marriage, he made her leave the house until she came back with a husband. When the baby girl was born, she decided to tell the boyfriend about the child, by bringing her to his house. He lived on a small farm right outside town and you had to pass over a small river on a bridge to get back to his house. As she opened the door, she walked in on him with another girl. Filled with anger, (pause) she gets in her car and speeds off. Now she could not return home unmarried and had lost her only love because of this one child. As she looked over at the baby, she is only reminded of her boyfriend and the image of him with the other girl. (tone increases) Finally, she reached the bridge, then slammed on the breaks. She got out and in a moment of rage threw the baby over the bridge to rid her of the baby girl’s troubles. Later that night, the police were tipped off about a murder at the bridge and came to find the girl hanging from the bridge.
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This particular event, in the very beginning of the novel, demonstrates how two people of t...
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...hich is which and who is who", we see the Wicked Witch of the West looking at the dead feet of the Wicked Witch of the East.
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