THE LIFE OF VICTORIA BRAVO
Process
Development of my character: The story starts with the main character, Victoria Bravo and her family who lived in Mexico. She was a sixteen year old young woman with a normal life as a teenager. Her family was conformed by five members: Maximiliano Bravo (dad), Valentina Castro (mom), Marcus Bravo (old brother), Alexander Bravo (young brother) and Victoria. During her young years, Mexico was going through a difficult time that affected the economy, education and life of millions of people all around the country. The Mexican Revolution started in the year of 1910, where millions of people were affected by losing their families, homes, education and jobs. After the battle that the country went through, Victoria tried to contribute to society by being involve in the future education of children by creating a movement. Her life idol, Frida Kahlo, helped her to make the idea of the movement a reality, "Society is the Future of Mexico" was the movement in which various talented students showed their skills through art pieces. The representation of the movement was to show the miserable environment that was left and the problems that were caused after the Mexican Revolution. After helping thousands of students, Victoria wanted to do more to improve the future of her country. She wanted to help students to make their dreams come true. She worked as a swimming and diving coach and she trained professional athletes. Her team was selected to participate at the Mexico Olympics in 1968. Days before the big event, thousands of students were assassinated during the Tlatelolco Massacre. This started as a movement lead by students who wanted to change the morals and ideas of society. Unfortunately, some of the athletes were involved and died at the occurrence. The day of the Olympic Games some of the main athletes that were going to participate and did not made it, were covered by other athletes. The women's team got the first place and the men's team got the second place at the end of the games. Victoria finally felt successful after all of the hard work and hard times that she had experienced. After achieving her life goal, she retired and lived a normal and peaceful life. She died years later during the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985 trapped inside her house. She after was reminded by everyone as a kind and lovely human who changed the life of many people.
Creation of the story: For the story, I wanted to create a character that would inspire other people to do the things that they dream of and letting people know that dreams do come true if you put hard work and most importantly, believe in yourself. Throughout the story, there are a couple of inspirational quotes that help the audience to relate to them and apply these messages to their lives. My main purpose was to make the readers feel like they were on the story by showing real life problems that the world faces everyday.
My inspiration: The inspiration of my story was the person that I want to become someday in the future. I aspire to have a lovely heart and soul and inspire many people to be happy and kind to everyone. I want to change the life of many people by making them try new things, live their life at the fullest always, even at the hardest times. Finally, making changes in society and direct people to make better choices and help others instead of letting them down.
Creation of the story: For the story, I wanted to create a character that would inspire other people to do the things that they dream of and letting people know that dreams do come true if you put hard work and most importantly, believe in yourself. Throughout the story, there are a couple of inspirational quotes that help the audience to relate to them and apply these messages to their lives. My main purpose was to make the readers feel like they were on the story by showing real life problems that the world faces everyday.
My inspiration: The inspiration of my story was the person that I want to become someday in the future. I aspire to have a lovely heart and soul and inspire many people to be happy and kind to everyone. I want to change the life of many people by making them try new things, live their life at the fullest always, even at the hardest times. Finally, making changes in society and direct people to make better choices and help others instead of letting them down.
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Completed Story