lunes, 4 de noviembre de 2013

TALE OF JOHN AND THE THREE SISTERS



Once upon a time in a Little village called “Nowhere”, there was a marble mansion which had large gold color crystal Windows and a beautiful roof that looked like chocolate and smelled like it, and this great house had a giant porch rounded by climbing plants.

The house was composed in the first floor by a charming kitchen that on winters gathered the family together. The living room had great leather sofas and a fabulous Persian carpet. In the second floor the main room was in the center and the other seven rooms around it. The house was surrounded by a spectacular landscape of white mountains reflected on the blue lake and green hills filled of wild animals like horses, cows and deers.

In that lovely house lived a fat mouse called John who had a penetrating sight, who lived with his beautiful daughters. The oldest daughter called Ursula who was very ambitious and egocentric, the second one Fiona beautiful but dissocial and the youngest Emily, rejected by her daughters due to her beauty and kindness and because she felt in love with a poor mouse who worked in a cheese factory.

The family daily living was very chaotic, as Mr. John has had inherited the fortune from his father, all the family was very distant and unhappy. Every day, early in the morning the first thing Mr. John made was going to the kitchen and opens the fridge that was located in the corner. There he ate all he can and then felt guilty when he uses to see his big belly trough the glass in the corridor. Neither his body fat obscure his egocentricity because he believed that he was the most beautiful mouse in town. He dressed up silk coats, gold and silver jewelry and the most characteristic thing was his mahogany wood walking cane. But on the other side the truth was that Mr. John was so ugly, with wide eyebrows and fat cheekbones that made his eyes seemed to be closed. Meanwhile Ursula and Fiona’s life was so empty, based on luxury and physical appearance and they never did something productive and spent the day filing their nails and reading fashion magazines. But there was an exception and his name was Emily, the youngest sister. She radiated good feelings. Through the morning she spent her time watering the garden full of flowers and in the evening walk across the lake.
But the time ran very fast and the times changed and the old John got sick and he thought he should give his fortune to his daughters and decided to gather them around his deathbed. Then the three mice sat down to the left of a beautiful marble chimney and heard to their father said “daughters, I gathered you together today to tell you that I want to give you all my possessions, but, you have to get married with only rich mice”. Obviously Fiona and Ursula said instantly that they have fiancés but Emily doubly said yes afraid of what could happened.
The days passed by and Fiona and Ursula knew that their father was getting old and sick so they started to please Mr. John as never they do. They gave him breakfast and lunch and even cleaned up the house. Meanwhile Emily was rejected by her devil sisters. But their behavior last only a couple of days and sometime later Ursula and Fiona came back to the house with their fiancés seeking for John’s fortune. By the way Emily kept taking care of the Old John but decided to confess that she fell in love with a poor but a good feeling mouse that made her so happy and she said that didn’t need any money to be happy. Then the two sisters started to laugh and scoff but Mr. John with only one shout quieted the yelling and bad sisters and told to them that they were so interested and jealous and that he realized that the only good one was Emily. So she was going to afford the most part of the inheritance and looking to Emily’s eyes wished to her a life of joy and love besides her fiancé. Then the other two sisters left the house without saying any word.


Finally the Old John apologized to her loved Emily for being so bad with her during all that years and Emily accept it. Then the Old John took a last breath and closed his tired eyes forever.  

2 comentarios:

  1. Come on Irene, it is almost a month since your last entry! Keep it going.

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  2. Oh! the story is really similar to the reality there are persons that ony think in the money and nothing else. The important is to be good with the person who we love, care of them and to be sincerely with ours thought or feelings.

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