Monday, May 4, 2015

Short Story for INSI3101



Luis’ most influential family member.”

           There was a little kid born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and his parents Hector Aponte and Aracelis Velazquez named him Luis Aponte. Hector and Aracelis were young parents very immature so they needed help to raise Luis. Carmen Torres, Hector’s mother took care of this boy, since he was born, he lived with her and his husband named Angel Almodovar, Luis called him Guelo.. Both worked for the police, Carmen was a lutenant, and Angel was a sergeant, even though she had a higher rank she was a nice person, although very strict and had the authority in the house. They lived all in the same place, it’s called a “finca”, were there is a lot of trees, little of concrete, and a lot of nature. Here my mother and my father lived in one house, my great-grandmother lived in another house, and my grandmother and my grandfather lived in another house, but in the same place.

            This sergeant is the most influent and important person in Luis life, he didn’t had any type of blood type relation but he took care of Luis as if he was his father. They both played bowling as a professional sport for 5 years, in this time Angel took some courses to get a permit to be a coach, so he could coach Luis as his personal trainer. Also this five years they traveled to compete in bowling competitions, Costa Rica, Punta Cana, and Buffalo, New York were some of the places they competed and won a lot of first place trophies. This young boy played bowling for after Angel left the house for another year but without his grandfather by his side it was so hard to do it by his self he decided to quit bowling.


            When Luis get to the age of twelve Carmen decided to divorce Angel because things weren’t working out well. This event was one of the hardest events in Luis life, now he didn’t have a man in the house; he grew with a lot of woman’s because Hector wasn’t a good father to Luis. Even though Angel had to go back to Guanica, where he was born and raised, and Luis lived in Toa Alta, the distance wasn’t a problem to keep in touch and keep having a father and son relationship. Luis eventually grew up and the relationship was quite distant, but the feelings where always the same. When Luis was eighteen years old he gave him his car, and he traveled in a motorcycle to everywhere. Luis felt grateful because he had this man in his live that he could give everything that he had to make Luis life easier. Luis was, is and will always be happy because this man who was a stranger, and it wasn’t part of his family could do everything he had done since he was born. Luis Aponte’s life would be harder and different without the presence of this man Angel Almodovar, For Luis more than his grandfather, his father. This story is still being written because Luis has a lot to give back to Angel.

    This story was accompanied with a song I choose Ellie Goulding’s; “Your song”, because for me she expresses her love to an important person in her life. This person makes her happy no matter what even if they are not together, she feels happy because he exist in the world. That’s the same way I feel with my grandfather, even if we are not together I feel happy because I know he is alive and he lives in the same world I live. Since I first listened to this song I noticed it wasn’t a love song it was much more.

2 comments:

  1. I like the third person narrator, especially how you refer to yourself by your own name as if it were a different person.

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    1. thank you, you see sometime I do great things without knowing what I'm doing.

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