WritingAssignments523 – Assignment Bank

The Sweeter Revenge

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For my last Assignment Bank for Week 2, I decided to do a writing assignment called Different Point of View — Same Place. After watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I thought that I would do the ending chase scene from the point of view of Ferris’s sister, Jeanie Bueller. It has been a while since I have done anything related to creative writing, but as someone who loves to write and still has some aspirations to write a novel, I found this assignment to be quite enjoyable and a way for me to slowly get my writing back up into shape!

The drive home was excruciatingly unbearable. Mom’s diatribes over my “phony” call to the police for a strange man intruding in our house, on top of me kissing that delinquent druggie—who turned out to be surprisingly charming and a good kisser—were enough to make me want to throw myself out the car.

It’s always me. Why is it always me who gets the short end of the stick of everything? I’d
blame it on Ferris, but I remembered that druggie’s words from earlier. Why should
I care that my brother gets to get away with everything? That’s right. None of
that matters. None—

Screech!

Instinctively, I brought the car to a halt as someone came
sprinting across the street without so much as a second glance. I lifted my
head to see if (1) I killed someone, and (2) who this person was.

Lo, and behold, it was none other than my brother Ferris.

He gave me that challenging look, and I glared right back at
him. Oh, you’re gonna get it now.

Knowing the predicament he was in, he dashed through the
neighborhood, and I stepped on the gas pedal with no care for what was
happening around me. Mom screamed hysterically at me for my reckless driving,
but I paid her no mind whatsoever. This was my long awaited chance. Who cares
what the druggie said earlier? If an opportunity presents itself, I just gotta
snatch it, right? Even with the cops breathing down my neck for speeding, my eye
was on the prize: seeing Ferris caught in the act and me finally getting my
redemption.

When we finally arrived at the driveway, I rushed into the
house, but as soon as I did, I heard an awfully familiar voice coming from the
back door. I silently made my way to the kitchen, and as I did, I noticed that
a wallet had been left on the floor.

Ah, this must be the
intruder’s, I thought.

I opened the wallet to see Mr. Rooney’s ID. It finally
clicked. I see, so he’s also here to
catch Ferris. I opened the curtain of the back door slightly to see Ferris
on the receiving end of Mr. Rooney’s lectures.

Quite frankly, I could give Ferris what he deserved and
leave him there to be caught, but I thought again to that druggie’s words. What
difference would it really make in my life whether my brother gets away with
cutting school or not? Honestly, not much.

Besides, the sweeter revenge would be to strip what little
pride Mr. Rooney had remaining. What more could a little extra humiliation do?

I made my decision. I decided to do my part as Ferris’s
sister.

So I opened the door and let my brother back into the house
to finish the ruse while sending Mr. Rooney off his merry way back to school.

It was a good day indeed.

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A Different Perspective

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For one of my re-do assignments I decided to rewrite a scene from Secondhand Lions again. Only this time, I am writing from Jasmine’s point of view. When I originally did this assignment, as I was uploading the content, I suddenly had an idea to write it from Jasmine’s perspective. I decided that I was too late and I was just going to use the car salesman’s perspective. I’m really happy I got an opportunity to rewrite it!

Here is the scene:

https://youtu.be/_jJZcSV-KV0

And here is the story from Jasmine’s point of view:

“Where is it? Where’s the money?” *slap*

“Ahh, ahh, mhmm”

What’s going on? As I stuck my head
out of my corn field, I see my boy, Walter, on the ground. Someone is on top of
him. Who is that strange man? What is he doing?

The strange man raises his hand and
slaps Walter across the face. That man is attacking my boy! I immediately start
running to Walter. I have to protect him! That man isn’t going to know what hit
him. I’m running towards the man, I let out a ferocious growl, he looks up from
Walter and sees me coming. He has a terrified look on his face…good, he should
be scared. I will destroy his soul for touching my boy.

I leap onto him; I begin scratching
and biting him. The man keeps putting his arms up so that I can’t get to his
throat, I keep trying to get past his arms because I want to rip his throat
out. No one hits Walter like that and gets away with it.

The man is putting up a good fight, but so am I. I hear Walter make a noise next to me, I spare a brief look, he is fine. I feel myself slowing down. My limbs are starting to get heavy…what’s happening? All I feel is a haze, my eyes are so heavy. With my dying breath, I look up at Walter, my sweet Walter. He has made the last couple months of my life extraordinary. I feel the man flinch beneath me, I’m glad that my final act was protecting Walter from this man. I hope Walter remembers how happy we made each other…

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Seconhand Lions: In the Mind of the Salesman

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4 Stars

Secondhand Lions is one of my favorite movies. For this assignment, I will be writing from the perspective of the first salesman that drives up. Here is a video to show you how the scene goes!

*as he is driving up the long driveway*

I sure hope this is the right driveway! The house looks like it could use some loving, it looks like its falling apart. I sure hope these guys do have millions stashed away because my job is riding on this deal.

Oh, there they are. Sitting on the front porch with some
kid. I wonder who the kid is. No matter, as long as he doesn’t get in the way
of me making this deal, we’ll be ok.

I jumped out of my new red car and approached the porch when
I called out, “Hey, rumor has it you two have millions stashed away!”

The brother with the glasses just started at me. He didn’t
seem convinced. Better give him my main pitch line.

“Why not put some of
that money to work for you with the high-yield investment in gold and silver
can bring.”

And oh my god! They pulled out shotguns on my and shot just
above my head! I can’t believe it! I ran back to my car, but I needed to try
one last time. “Can I leave you some pamphlets?” And they just shot through my
papers!

I turned my car back on and sped out of there like I was a bat coming out of hell. I will never bother them again, my job on the line or not!

It was difficult picking which scene in this movie to choose from. There are so many good parts, but the scene I picked was find to do because Hub and Garth love terrorizing the salesmen that come. The hardest part about this assignment was trying to figure out the backstory and motivations of the salesman. Other than the fact he is trying to get there money, is there anything else motivating him?

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“I was inverted”

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A scene from Top Gun told from Goose’s point of view.

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Jimbo’s Perspective

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Sitting alone at a nearby pub was Jimbo. Having just had one of the most exhausting days of his life trying to help out Buck with apprehending Crazy Joe Shooter; he needed to have a drink to calm himself down. Then he heard loud shouts and hollering talking about Buck’s heroics that they had heard about. They couldn’t believe that all this time, the unexpected gun was the son of the sheriff.

That’s when they spotted Jimbo, and immediately ran over to talk to them about what had transpired earlier that day. Jimbo couldn’t care less that they wanted to his side of the story, but he thought it would be a good idea to tell them the real story. Instead of the tall tale that they had heard of Buck Smith becoming a monster that went berserk and killed everyone in Train Man Inc. So he described what really happened when him and Buck Smith went to Train Man Inc. to apprehend Crazy Joe Shooter.

Jimbo described how he and Buck Smith snuck into Train Man Inc. without being noticed. Then peacefully confronted the CEO of Train Man Inc. who gladly told them of Crazy Joe’s whereabouts in a local greenhouse down the road. So Jimbo and Buck got on their horses and headed to the greenhouse. As they opened the door to the greenhouse, they saw Crazy Joe starting to run away and they shot at his leg to stop him from getting away. What they didn’t know was that the gases in the greenhouse were flammable. So as soon as Buck shot his gun, the whole greenhouse blew up with Crazy Joe still inside.

The whole crowd was shocked and couldn’t believe that this whole incident was an accident. They all thought that Jimbo was trying to mess with them; so they went on back to loud shouts and hollering “Buck Smith should be Sheriff, he killed all those man to grant justice to Crazy Joe Shooter.”

Little did they know, that Jimbo was actually telling the truth about him and Buck accidentally killing Crazy Joe in a greenhouse.

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Writing Assignment – Different Point Of View – Same Place

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I’m writing my character’s point of view of an event that Kyle Masala is responsible and known for. While he was a bartender, legend says he ended bar fight by shooting the hats off of both of their heads. Luke, drifting from town to town, was lucky enough witness this unfold from the corner of the bar.

Luke pushed the saloon doors, and his eyes began adjusting to the dingy room before him. He had heard the sound from down the street, but it felt amplified within closed doors. Walking towards the bar, he glanced at the bartender. A young man, mid 20s, yet Luke could tell he was hardened by pain. He asked for a whiskey, which was speedily delivered. He thanked the bartender, and retreated to a corner table, hoping to find some solace in this uproarious environment.

Luke quickly turned to his thoughts, building a wall within his mind to block out all the noise. It had been ten years already, but the memories, the sounds, still endured. He often found himself brooding about the past, especially during the spring. His life had so much more potential back then; as usual, regrets, and dreams, flooded back in. Luke’s journey towards sorrow had nearly reached the brink, when an earsplitting sound of broken glass pulled him back to reality.

He looked around, and saw a gruff man, about 40, on the ground. A young man, with an even younger face, stood above him.

“John, you sonnuva bitch, I told you I’d come back fer you! Should have left when you had the chance!” the young kid screamed.

The old man didn’t say a word. He stumbled back up, and quickly pulled out a revolver. The boy, quick on his hands, responded in turn. A standoff ensued, neither man moving a muscle. Luke noticed the bartender over to the side; he quit polishing a glass, dropping it on the bar, and let out a sigh. With lightning speed, he unracked a Winchester 1873 from under the counter, and fire two shots. The men remained standing, but their hats, that was a different story: the bullets had thrown them to the floor.

“I’ve had ENOUGH! Take your fight out of my bar, and out of my town!” hollered the bartender.

The men complied. The silence brought about by the scuffle turned into cheers, and the bartender went back to polishing glasses, as if nothing had happened. Luke’s habitual descent to darkness was prevented, tonight at least. He paid for his drink, with a hefty tip to the bartender, and pushed open the saloon doors, and walked into the night.

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Space Reclamation

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So foreword here to explain, this story is going to be for the assignment “Different Point Of View – Same Place”. Which says to write out a movie scene from a different character’s point of view. Well since we need to do have our characters intersect with other characters, I thought this would be cool to warp a bit and instead of doing a movie scene, I’d use another classmate’s story (In this case, it is my radioshow group mate’s intro story for his character Donnie Rejj,

Cyborg Space Cowboy… I couldn’t resist.

. The idea being how would a sci fi rendition of my character go about his business upon arriving at the scene. I figured in the vastness of space, where a single man can be hard pressed to be noticed, to keep up his mortuary mystery he’d need to be part of a bigger mysterious organization that can have myths around it.

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Each step Crawlston took deeper into the station caused thicker and thicker fog to condense on his facemask’s eye lenses until they were little more than white plates. Unlike the miners who had uneasily greeted him at the air lock, his enviro-suit was visibly archaic, using materials and technology not seen on a modern suit in dozens of years with a gaunt, almost skull-like facemask that looked like something warriors of the Great War would’ve worn millenia ago on Earth. It lacked the modern conveniences of the miner’s suits like naturally fog resistant glass, even so, he seemed unphased by the near opaque wall of condensation on the lenses as he purposefully strode into the empty facility. Only a hand torch he carried with him lit the dank interior of the building. Despite protocol being for a miner to escort him to the bodies, none volunteered and instead all skulked around the ship they arrived on, talking to each other on private comms channels that Richard was unable to tune into.

Crawlston already knew where his objectives were to be located and went directly to his first task. It was said to be a bar, but Crawlston had seen drug dens with more style and character than it. A barren room of steel walls that reflected his torch’s light wherever he showed it and beaten up, semi rusty stools greeted him, but he ignored them all, instead instantly locking his vision on the giant concrete slab that served as the bar’s counter, where a man was slumped over, almost like a drunkard save for the rouge pool that was spread out on the counter and dribbling down thru the grated floor.

Without wasting a moment, Crawlston approached the corpse, finally taking a moment to clear the dog from his lenses before bending over to inspect the body.

“Incision, base of skull, two point one centimeters wide, five point eight centimeters deep. Severance of spinal chord likely cause of death”

Nobody was around to hear him, but the auto-mnemonic electronics device implanted into his skull immediatly recorded all of his statements for later study. He reached into a pocket on one of his hips and pulled out six circular pads, each about the size of his palm and the thickness of a bottlecap. With practiced hands he applied a disk to each limb, the man’s back, and the man’s head. Upon placing the final one, all six lit up red and a shimmering field encased the dead barkeeper. With a casual wave of his hand, the six pads started humming and lifted the barkeeper from his slouch, gently leaning him back into a reclining position. Where the blood had been slowly oozing out the back of his neck and his mouth, it had ceased within the field. Another hand wave as he walked out of the bar and the dead man started drifting towards him as he made his way to his ship.

Beyond the airlock, the miners were still standing glumly around, mutely refusing to lift their heads to look at the undertaker or his freshest charge. They all knew the procedure in the event of deaths such as these, up high sends an undertaker, body disappears, nobody speaks of it or else ‘accidents’ happen. Once the man was gone, they’d get life support back on and a new engineer and barkeeper would be sent out. The less they thought about it, and the less they questioned it, the better.

The body gently floated up the ramp to Crawlston’s ship as Crawlston watched. Once it was securely on board, he turned around and walked back in to find his next objective, a Mister Danny.

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Perspectives

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I completed the four star assignment Different Point of View- Same Place.

It directs us to take a scene from a movie and rewrite it from the point of view of another character.

A scene I wrote for a previous assignment was taken and rewritten from the perspective of the antagonist who was the “elegantly dressed man.” The scene being referred to is contained within one of my last posts:

Recipe for Beer

Here’s the different perspective.

The batwing saloon doors squeaked as I confidently pushed pass them, walking into the dimly lit saloon intent on winning some money. Times before I had been able to outplay poor strangers in poker games based on the fact that I knew the chances of the game. Working class people didn’t know probability. To worry oneself over the minutiae of chance in card games never crossed their mind in those days. It crossed my mind though, and I was good at it. Walking toward the bar, the bartender closely observed me. He wasn’t shy making me feel like an outsider. I was one. As I ordered my drink, I intently looked across the room for falling cards. With little time I pinpointed a game. I had no problem joining. These locals were friendly. ‘Good’ I thought. It’ll be easier to take their money. I played for a couple hours winning money off of these simple folk. I was content. No one could stop me. I did notice that a man was watching me the whole time. It turns out the man was their coworker, Merrell Shale. He walked over and didn’t say much. After playing a couple rounds, this guy won my money. I’ve never encountered anyone who could read my plays before this moment. A bit furious at a night wasted, I turn in for the night. This is unbelievable. As I walk out of the saloon, I can’t help but admire him though. It’s been a long time since I’ve lost.

Both my character and Merrill Shale were referenced in this post. It was pretty difficult to imagine what the elegantly dressed man’s perspective was during this scene. But I wrote something out.

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Different Point Of View – Same Place

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4 stars This scene shows Sara Sparkle and Rose King catching up with each other. They haven’t seen each other in 5 years. Their emotions filled with joy when they were able to see each other and talk to one another after so long. They laughed and cried talking about the memories they had together […]

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Different Point of View – Same Place

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Take a scene from any movie (that includes more than one character) and rewrite it from the perspective of a different character. Write about the emotions and thoughts the character is having without acknowledging what you know from the original scene. For example: You could write on the scene from Titanic using Jack’s perspective while they were in the water and Rose was on the door. Be creative the possibilities for this are endless.