Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Descriptive Writing

There is an epic battle that is nearing its climax. The battle is between a Master and his younger apprentice. The two warriors get separated momentarily and the older and more experienced Jedi tells the younger overconfident apprentice,"Its over Anakin I have the high ground." The cocky and arragent young padawan aggresively replies,"You underestimate my power!" The passionate and concerned Jedi sincerely requests,"Don't try it."Not heeding his master's warning, the irresponsible padawan jumps in a theatrical manner over the Jedi. Then the Jedi looks in disbelief as his padawan tries to gain the advantage even after he warned him that he could not. When the moment is right the Jedi quickly slices through his padawans legs and left arm, ending the epic battle that preceded these events. As the fallen padawan lay there in aganizing pain, the saddened Jedi looks at his former apprentice and says with a broken heart, "You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would, destroy the Sith, not join them. It was you who would bring balance to the Force, not leave it in Darkness!" The sorrowful Jedi slowly picks up his crippled padawan's light saber and begins to walk away. He stops for a brief moment and looks back. At this moment Anakin screams with hate from his now blackened heart,"I hate you!" The Jedi is overwhelmed with gloom and discontent, he despairingly says his final words to his apprentice,"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you." Then Anakin's body catches fire, which causes unspeakable amount of pain. Anakin begins to scream out in immense discomfort. His master Obi-Wan can no longer bear to see him in this state so he turns and walks away from his padawan leaving him to burn to death. This ends the greatest moment in Star Wars history...

1 comment:

camccune said...

A good prospect for this exercise, but you spend too much time telling me stuff instead of showing me.

For example, instead of telling me, "As the fallen padawan lay there in aganizing (spelling!) pain, the saddened Jedi looks at his former apprentice and says with a broken heart...," how about showing me? Paint me a picture with words. How did you know he was in agonizing pain? Did he moan, grimace, cry out? How could you tell the Jedi was saddened? Did his voice break? Did his eyes tear up? Describe it!

C

And how could you possibly consider this the greatest moment in Star Wars history? What about Luke's confrontation with his father, Darth Vader? Hey, at least Mark Hamil could kind of act....