The Village by the Sea - Original Writing Yesterday was a usual day for everybody. Nothing great really happened. But, for me it was not an ordinary day. Yesterday, Hari, the boy I had met a few months ago left back to go to his village Thul. I had met him one sunny afternoon. I was busy mending my watches when he came out of Jagu's eating house next door, called Sri Krishna eating house, to throw the garbage. That was the time I first met him and he seemed to be a very quiet and shy village boy to me. I thought he was from Jagu's village so I asked him but he, very excitedly, told me that he had come from a village near Alibaug called Thul. I had never heard of Thul before but while speaking about it to me he seemed to be very excited and happy. His eyes were telling me that he was excited. I gathered that he was missing his village a lot. He told me on his own that a watchman had brought him to the eating house and he had stayed to work. He seemed to be lonely and longed for somebody to talk to, and I seemed to be the first person. To me he seemed to be a very innocent and nice boy. He asked me where the post office was and he posted a postcard to his family in his village. He was very hard working and he never spent his money by seeing movies. He was a simple boy. One evening when I was working till late, Hari suddenly came out of the eating house. I asked him weather he was unwell but then I realized that he must be missing the cool night breeze of his village inside the hot and stuffy eating house. I told him to go to the park which was around the corner and sleep. He later had told me that it was much cooler in the park and had thanked me for my advice. Before the rainy season had begun, one hot afternoon I remember that
started to have second thoughts a little to late so he tried to starve himself
Sandra Benitez, birth name Sandy Ables, was born in Washington D.C. March 26, 1941. Due to her father’s job as a diplomat, she lived most of her childhood in Mexico and El Salvador. During Benitez teenage years, she lived with her family in the United States where she assimilated into American culture. In 1979 she decided to leave her job and began to attend a creative writing class. “Her first novel, a murder mystery set in Missouri, was never published. She brought the novel to a writer’s conference, where she was told it was terrible”. (“About”, Benitez) This led her to become the person she is now and focus on writing of her Latina heritage. In 1993 Benitez had published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, where she received the Minnesota Book Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
town they were heading to, he must come back to the pond and hide in
knew the reason why he would have to burn down a person's house when one had
hid in the woods. We know now that he was consumed by his grief about
without her. "He was his wife's man and not his own." When he became aware of
outdoors that summer. The two liked to climb trees, and read books because they thought
in the hollow on the other side of that mountain. I was so happy to have them talking to
in the end guess where he went. He decided to go to El Camino! When I asked him why he wanted to go
Sandra Benitez was born in Washington D.C. on March 26, 1941. Her birth name is Sandy Ables, she had lived her childhood in Mexico and El Salvador where her father served as a diplomat. When Benitez was a teenager she was sent to live with her grandparents up north where she had become “Americanized”. In 1979 she had left her job and had began to attend a creative writing course. “Her first novel, a murder mystery set in Missouri, was never published. She brought the novel to a writer’s conference, where she was told it was terrible”. (Benitez, Sandra Benitez) This had led her to change her name to Sandra Benitez and focus on writing on her Latina heritage. In 1993 Benitez had published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, receiving the Minnesota Book Award and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
them but they did not recognize him. At the village Jesus stopped and ate with
“Here’s the grocery store and here’s Mr. Morgan’s Drugstore. Most everybody in town manages to look into those two stores once a day (5.Stage Manager.) A small town without a lot of people, that’s exactly what the line above just told us. In the Play Our Town the stage manager tells us about a small town called Grover’s Corner. According to Professor Willard “within the town’s limits: 2, 640. (23 Willard)” That’s the population of this little town. Living in a small community can have its up’s and down. Grover’s Corner doesn’t want to modernize, nor is there any privacy, but there are some good qualities like knowing who ever you fall in love with in the town has basically grown up like you, or that you know everyone in the community.
the front of the trailer park. I asked the babysitter could I go she said, “NO!”
He looked like the I-played-a-few-sports-in-high-school type, pretty normal to me compared to all of the different types of people in the room. He wasn't preppy enough to be the guy that came to college for the sole reason of joining a fraternity, but nowhere close to being the guy that nobody wanted in a fraternity.
The wood was enormous. It was dark and it was cold and I needed to get