Timeline (3 Stars)
For this assignment I created a timeline of major events in Sarah Mustard’s life and also showed how these events interacted with what events were occurring in the world at this time. The bold events are what happened in Sarah’s life directly and the events that aren’t bold occurred in the rest of the world.
March 14, 1923 Sarah is born in Hartford, Connecticut
1924 Sarah’s mother passes away
1929 Stock Market Crashes, the beginning of the Great Depression
1930 Sarah gets her first journal and begins writing in it
1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
1933 FDR launches the New Deal
1934 Dustbowl
1935 Sarah gets caught spying on the Scarlet family mansion and is run off the property by guard dogs
1939 World War II begins
1940 Sarah meets Robert Martin, her high school sweetheart
1941 Sarah graduates high school
1941 The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and the U.S. enters WWII
1942 Robert Martin is drafted in the war and killed soon thereafter
1942 Sarah gives birth to her daughter and gives her up for adoption to a family in Los Angeles
1943 Sarah moves to Los Angeles and gets a job working as a private investigator
1945 Yalta Conference, WWII ends
1946 Sarah meets Sasha Kellogg while working for the same PI Company
1946 Nuremburg trials
1947 Sarah instructs Sasha Kellogg on how to use a gun
1948 Berlin Airlift
1949 First Nonstop flight around the World, NATO established
1950 Sarah’s father, Colonel Mustard, is investigated for a murder in Connecticut
1950 Korean War begins
1952 Sarah meets Shelley Layton at a cat convention and solves the case arresting Shannon Mills
1952 Polio Vaccine created
1953 Sarah and Shelley travel to San Francisco to visit Sasha, present day
I chose this assignment because I thought it would be interesting to look at the historical context of what is going on in the world where Sarah Mustard lives. I think that the state of the world as Sarah Mustard grew up could have contributed to her closed-off and reserved nature. Also the tragic death of her first love, Robert Martin, only contributed to Sarah alienating herself from the rest of the world. I think though that as the state of the world starts to look up after World War II ends, so does Sarah’s life in turn, when she meets Sasha Kellogg in 1947 and finally has a friend. I think that Sarah is character is growing increasingly less reserved and lonely as she progresses into the 1950’s when the Steadfast Sleuths solve their first case.
I kind of unintentionally made Sarah Mustard’s life parallel of the state of world. I started by just writing Sarah Mustard’s life events and what years it would make sense for them to fall into and then I began listing the years where major world events occurred. Coincidentally, the two sets of events ended up paralleling each other quite a bit which only added to the emotional depth of my character. In general, I found this assignment to be both fun in the creative sense, but also pretty informational. I enjoyed incorporating Sasha Kellogg, Shelley Layton, and Shannon Mills into Sarah’s timeline to show how instrumental all of these characters were in Sarah Mustard’s life. I’m also really enjoy history and so it was cool to think of Sarah’s life occurring along with all of the historical events happening from 1923-1953.
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