In my previous blog I mentioned that I would post later about one of my activities in Writing Fundamentals Class. Here it is I hope you enjoy my story.
In our Zoom session with Mr Mark today we were broken into breakout rooms, sorry I did not take a snapshot of our session but I hope the story will suffice. So he gave us an example of what makes a plot interesting and a 90 seconds plot of a scenario in world war and we were broken into break out rooms after. In our breakout rooms we were asked to make our own version of a 90 seconds story but there was a twist that the plot had to be a historical event in Indonesian History.
After 12 minutes of discussion time. The story that my groupmates and I came up with was a story back in 1930 when our country was colonised by Netherlands and it was wartime. Our story begun with a lady named Sutejo that has 6 children. She is a widowed mom as her husband just recently passed away. She runs a small krupuk "warung" or shop by herself to support her children. Since the Netherlands colonised Batavia (a place now known as Jakarta but in the olden days was Batavia), her life was more of a misery every passing moment. The Netherlands representative took all the food of the Batavians including Sutejo. Her oldest son could not accept this and fought back to the Netherlands. One day, he was kidnapped and he never returned home. None of Sutejo's family members knew what happened to him, he just simply vanished. She had to keep her family alive somehow. This led her to build a secret granary in her toilet to stalk all the food. Unfortunately, she met a netherlands soldier and he fell in love with her. Will her secrets be revealed? Will she still have grudge with netherlands for her sons disappearance? Will he accept her for who she is? Will they marry?
That's it for today. Thanks for reading ! I hope you enjoyed our work of fiction. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
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