A first draft of the story - Essay Example

Full Constance Changed Logline: Constance is an old woman who has three grown up children whom she raised to live better lives but she, herself, survives on welfare stamps on her old age. She walks down the road trembling from the cold and in part, from being old. This has been her trail for the past years. What? A decade? Perhaps more than that. Constance was once a strong woman who raised her three children alone after cancer claimed his young husband’s life. she did not remarry. She just thought about the welfare of her children.

She worked two jobs to put enough food on the table and put a decent shelter over their heads. They did not have much. Her husband left her nothing but some debts incurred during the time he laid in bed fighting for dear life’s sake. Despite her circumstances, Constance brought her children up with the strong determination to make them get better lives. The children in turn worked hard. Being used to difficulties, they were able to help their mother as they went to school. They helped her until they were able to find their wings.

Now, they are all successful. Her first daughter became a doctor and married a British doctor and they decided to raise their family in Europe. Another went to California to be raise her own family and the last son chose the easy and lazy life. she knows that her son is just around the corner but she seldom sees him. Her strength is drained. Her feet cannot carry her anymore to places she would want to go in search of her son. All she can do now is drag herself to the welfare building when winter arrives so that she would be sure to have something to eat.

A lot of things changed in her seventy years of existence but she thinks nothing has changed at all.