Sunday, May 30, 2010

Shortstory about the rise of Darth Vader

You may be wondering how Darth Vader became so feared an monster that he is, will his character is pretty straight forward to began with. Just like his son, Anakin was also born in the same planet that his son was on years ago. Anakin's story began when he was just an farm boy with a large dream of leaving the planet. But he couldn't because of slavery and his only family is his mom. That fateful day came when an Jedi started to gamble on the pod races. Anakin not only won the race, he won his freedom from slavery. Unfortunately, his mom has to stay behind. When the Jedi landed on Corusant, they went straight to the Jedi council. However, the council were fearful that he is too old to be trained, even Yoda can sense fear within Anakin. However, later on Obi-Wan became his mentor.

Years later, Anakin became an teenager and still under tillage from Obi-Wan. He felled in love with Padme, but forbidden love is an emotion that a Jedi shouldn't have. He is still fearful because his nightmares torment him internally and he is emotionally messed up. He became vulnerable to the dark side seductions. Now that he became a man, the Chancillor persuaded him to choose the darkside which has greater power. He finally gave in to the darkside and all hell turned loose. He betrayed the Jedi, his mentor and killed his own wife when she became pregnant with Luke and Leia inside her. He became Darth Vader, the demon he swore to destroy. When Vader fought Obi- Wan in the first round, Obi-Won won and left him to die.

Vader fought Obi-Wan in the second round on the Death Star. This time Vader got the upper hand and send his master back to the force. Vader sets his sight to his son this time, he wanted him to follow the same path he took to the darkside, to become an dark Jedi just like him. The first time he tried to was on Cloud City when he fought his son for the first time. During that time Luke almost gave in, but he thought better of it when Obi-Wan and Yoda warned him about it. Vader also chopped off his son's hand during that time. At the last round on the second death star, Luke chopped his father's hand. Like father, like son. Luke can sense that Anakin is still alive inside that costume. He saved his life when the Emperor turned on Luke and Vader picked him up over the shaft. Both Vader and Anakin died, this time he went to the force just like Obi-Wan and Yoda did. His spirit lives on forever.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

2000-2009 Review

Things had started to change big time throughout the 2000's. In 2000, I became an sophomore in high school. My career in theater had started to expand in high school, So I started to find other opportunities besides the Drama Club. So I participated in their Talent Shows from 2000,2001,2002 and my last years in high school in 2003. I became fluent in poetry so I did their poetry slams. This an development time in my career. I even did an murder mystery in 2000. In 2001-2002 I became an junior in high school. 2003 was the time of change when I left high school in high honors, recoginition in the RI Honor Society, a special Ellen Anostos award and an pin in the Quill & Scroll Honor Society.

I finally entered the real world in the summer of 2003, so I began to enroll at CCRI in the fall of that year. Since, I had done alot of theater throughout the generation I decided to choose an theater degree. In the summer of 03,04 and 05 My gift of creative theater opportunity came to attend theater camps at Rhode Island College. 2003 was my first time of entering day programs with Gateways to Change and night activities with the Trudeau Center. In 2004, Gateways made an extension in an multicreative store that has art classes and theater classes as well as a theater space to do productions. I even done the Special Olympics for the first time in 2004. I keep on participating in the Special Olympics in 06, 07,08 and 09. I landed on a part time job with Kaliedoscope Theater in 2005. I've been doing productions with them in 05,06,07,08, and 09. In 2008, I got one of the lead characters in my first college production in February.

Basically, all those events and my development in my theater career in high school and in the real world, made me change my perspective of becoming a musical theater performer as an career choice. I know it's a tough career, but at the end the benefits will be worth it.