“I have officially decided that I am going to have Miranda take my place as general manager as soon as I move to Australia,” Celia announced. Celia Hawkins was the general manager of Three Chickens. She was planning on moving to Australia because she was getting married to a lifeguard she met one summer. It was her job to hand over the job of general manager. She knew that Miranda would be the perfect candidate because for the past 6 months she had pretty much been performing as such. Miranda was a single mom of three because her husband had recently lost his battle to cancer. She was a very selfless woman, who never asked for anything from anyone. Everyone at work saw the potential in her and now she was finally going to have her chance to shine. Another girl named Caroline heard the news and was so excited for Miranda!
She went to her best friend at work and told her the great news. When she told Lola about it, Lola freaked out. She went on and on to Carolina about how this was one of the worst ideas she had ever heard. Lola told Caroline that she should not be so happy for her and that their friend Matthew was actually the one who deserved it! She said that he had been working there so much longer and was the actual one who should be next in line. Matthew was a very selfish man. Practically the polar opposite of Miranda. He was a 25 year old who still lived at home with his parents and got everything he ever wanted from them despite his age. After much convincing she convinced Caroline to go to Celia and have her rethink her offer. She not only convinced Celia to promote Matthew to the general manager but she also convinced her to make Miranda the janitor and decrease her pay. She was to tell Miranda that the decrease needed to happen because the store was struggling to give money to the people who had been there longer than she.
When Celia brought this news to Miranda she took it willingly. She said that she completely understood that they needed to demote her and said that this would just make her work even harder to bring money home for her family. Even though she was in such a terrible situation she still did what was required of her without anger or asking questions because that’s just the kind of woman she was. Author's Note: I wrote about the story of Rama getting exiled and instead of getting exiled I wrote about someone getting demoted from their job.
Bibliography:
- Buck, William (1976). Ramayana: King Rama's Way.
Image Information: picture of a waitress like Miranda in the story taken from Career Stair
This is great Jade! I liked how you changed the whole exile thing into real life issues like firing someone from the job. I really enjoyed how you rewrote the story in your own version. Especially, the title was super catchy and definitely worth reading. I enjoyed the details and the whole overall idea was clear and on point. Good job!
ReplyDeleteHi Jade! It was very creative to make modern parallels to what happened in Rama's exile. It's easy to see how unfair Rama's exile was when reading the book, but your story made the consequences real. It would be awful for such an amazing person to go through such an unfair, terrible thing! Also for that person to take the demotion so nobly! Great job
ReplyDeleteThis is really good! I liked how you changed the story to modern-time; it was easy to relate to and fun to read.
ReplyDeleteMatthew was made to be a very selfish person in this story. In Narayan's version of the book, Bharata showed a small bit selflessness when he went and looked for Rama instead of immediately taking the throne. However, that could have happened if your story continued.
Other than that, it was very creative and fun to read!
I really like that you changed the setting and names of characters in this story! It makes it so much more relatable. I don't understand why Lola or Caroline wouldn't have wanted the promotion, but you could easily include that. I really like your description of Miranda, though. It gives me a really good sense of just how selfless and hardworking she is.
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