the island of hope

8/2/2019 The Island of Hope

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TheIsland of Hope

"Island in the Sun" blared in

the back round, shooting painful

memories of warmth and sunlight

into her. It had been six long

years of exile to the cold,

unforgiving depths of the sea.


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The old, breaking submarine her

only life support. And a lone

guitar her only friend.

The people of the island had

banished her without just cause,

but with fear in their hearts. They

had been loving, kind people

before the war, that sent so many


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lives bouncing off the cold, dark

wall of death, but they had

changed into empty, guarded

people. At the beginning of the

war many Islanders had fought

for change with hope of a new

world not plagued with fear and

desperation, but slowly those

hopes died as the war continued


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to rage. Then one day a new

hope tried to arise but was muted

with the cold grasp of a fake

reality.

Hope was born to a small

fishing village on the coast of a

big, warm land mass called Rana.

The village were Hope had lived


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was happy, cozy and a tight knit

community. Hope used to say

that she was born to two people,

but was parented by a village.

Hope loved living there, but her

ideas were bigger then the village

and she knew someday she

would leave to find a place to

house her dreams where she


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could aspire to be whoever and

whatever she wanted to be. Then

one day the time came for Hope

to leave. Burdened with the guilt

of leaving her small village, Hope

sailed into the distance, not

knowing where she was going, or

if she'd get there.

Hope had been battered by the


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sea when she arrived at her

unknown destination, the Island.

She arrived to a lively beach filled

with smiling faces and warm

sand. She had stepped from her

small boat unnoticed, she slowly

walked down the beach swerving

the stands of water melon,

coconuts, pineapple, and


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mangos. Hope had been

dehydrated and badly sunburned.

She had been walking in a haze

down the beach when someone

noticed something was wrong

with her. The warm islanders had

all gathered round to help the

stranger.


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When Hope woke she was

shaded by white clothes, and had

cooling bandages covering the

worst of her sun burned skin. She

had also been hydrated, there

was a bottle of greenish water

that she later found out was

guava juice. Hope sat up with a

little pain and looked around at


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what she was sure was her new

home. There were a few wooden

furnishings and flimsy posts that

kept the thin white clothe roof up.

Hope carefully pulled herself up

to see the island. As she

stumbled around the Island she

started to make friends and was

quickly excepted into the


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community.

The next few months went by in

a blur of warmth and happiness.

Then the war started.

The war at the main land had

spread to the Island. Many

islanders were killed or shipped

off to be soldiers. The happy


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Island Hope had once known

ceased to exist. The Islanders

began to rule by their fear. They

built houses to keep out the

world. There was no longer a

happy beach that new comers

would arrive to, no longer happy

faces. There were just absences

of those who the war had


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claimed, there were those who

were "there" but really their spirits

had been extinguished with the

lives of their kin. There was only

one left with hope, one left with

the drive to fight. Hope. She

would not give up the home she

had come to love, she would not

give up on the people of the


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Island.

Hope had waited for the Island

leaders to rebel, or at least do

something to help the people. But

when she realized that wasn't

going to happen, she took

charge. At first Hope gave little

speeches in attempt to relieve the


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peoples spirits of the dark

hollowness that had claimed

them. The she started giving

bigger speeches until she was

screaming they needed to help

themselves out of this dark age.

On one of the occasions where

Hope was telling the islanders to

fight back an army official from


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the main land was at the island.

After hearing Hopes furious

speeches against the war, he told

the Island ruler that he must

silence Hope or the Island would

face dire consequences. That is

when the unjust exile to the

depths of the see claimed Hope

as its captive.


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Now it has been six long, dark

years and the war still rages,

Hope has had enough. The

bombs that are thrown over her

dark sea bed are the only glimpse

of light she gets out side her

submarine. She's ready to see

the sun. And she's ready now. So


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Hope uses the oxygen tank the

islanders left her as a way "out"

like in the stories Hope had heard

of pirates being left on an island

with one gun shot, the oxygen

tank doesn't have enough air to

get her to the surface, just

enough for her to watch her

submarine sink. But what the


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islanders didn't know was that

Hope was amazing with all

animals. You may be wondering

how that would help her get out of

the water, well you may have

heard dolphins are incredibly

smart.

So Hope puts on the old


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oxygen mask and opens the roof

of her submarine and swims out,

with some difficulty, to the water.

Where, she had noticed earlier,

there was a group of dolphins.

Hope found the closest dolphin

and grabbed the fin on its back

and somehow managed to get it

to swim towards the surface.


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Once hope was close enough to

the surface that she could swim in

one breath she let go of the

dolphin, took a huge breath with

the last of the oxygen , took off

the tank and swam to the surface.

When she got to the top of the

water she gulped for air, hers

lungs burning. Hope starts to


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swim towards the Island noticing

how broken it looks. When she

gets to the island she is not

greeted with smiling faces like the

first time she arrived at the Island,

she is not greeted at all. It's as if

the Island has been deserted, but

Hope knows there are people still

there. She puts her hands to her


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mouth and makes a bird like call

that only islanders know, a signal

that was made when the war

started. About ten minutes after

she made the call a few faces,

covered in camouflage, poke out

of the bushes. Slowly Hope

realized one of the faces was the

ruler of the Island, the ruler who


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had banished her. Hope was not

mad at him anymore, she had

long forgiven the act he made

that had changed her life for the

worst. She sees the effect the war

had had on the islanders in their

swollen, red, eyes and their

skinny, tight faces. The islanders

wave her over and lead her to


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their secret hide out.

Once in the hide out no one

asks how she escaped, or

apologizes for her banishment,

they just stare with pleading eyes.

Hope sits down and says "What's

the plan?" No one replies. Hope

sighs and says "I have a


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plan...but it's a long shot"

In the head quarters of the

military command center there is

a stark silence, broken by a huge

boom. People run around, from a

birds eye few they look like ants

scurrying around attempting to

mend the broken walls of their


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home. Its the dead of night and in

the cover of darkness the

islanders had gone to the main

land, connected with the little

fishing village where Hope was

born, then sent a warning bomb

into the empty military building

and left. They also left a note to

the military leader saying "This


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People still go to the Island when

they think all hope is lost.

The Island of Hope.


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the island of hope

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