Hai :D
Here's one story/idea that came to my mind upon watching this video, it's pretty meaningful, watch it if you can:
The song is Concrete Angel by Lora Merriman.
But that's not the main point haha, the point is that there was this particular comment on the video that provoked my thoughts:
"my dad abused me in every way and when ever i had to see him i had a fear that it would be the last time i ever seen my mom"
Sounds pretty sad right.
So I was thinking of a story, where the protagonist lives in a very poor family where her mother is the sole breadwinner (perhaps a tissue paper seller) with meager income while the father is a little white face (小白脸) who only cares about gambling but/and doesn't win any bread (punfully intended) at all. Not only does her dad constantly lose money from all the gambling (people 十赌九输 he 十赌十输), he tries to release his anger by drinking every night, and the worse thing is he returns home drunk every night and vents his anger further by physically abusing the protagonist.
Thankfully for the protagonist, she can to find a lot of solace from her mother, who dotes on her dearly and sells tissue paper for long hours, working till very late into the night in order to support her up to university and fend her useless husband. She's not very aware that her daughter gets constantly abused 'cos of her long working hours.
So every time the protagonist is abused, she fights hard to survive her dad's blows 'cos she's afraid she'd never see her mum again because she loves her mum dearly, too, as her mum cares for her so much and works for her so hard to pay for her school fees and all.. she really reciprocates her mum's love, studies real hard and aims be successful in her future career so that she can take very good care of her mum.
But sadly, the protagonist, like her mother, is a high S person chooses to suffer in silence 'cos her mother does. Supposedly because the dad threatens to kill them if they report to the police/if the mom lodges a divorce.
Then one night, the protagonist is harmlessly doing homework until her dad, like always, comes home and starts hitting her, but this time, he is armed with something fatally sharp (broken glass bottle, knife...) and attempts to hurt her mindlessly. Then just in time, the mother comes home from work and witnesses the horror and tries with all her heart to defend her daughter. Then the dad accidentally stabs the mum instead.
It's like robbing the protagonist of her heart. It pains her so terribly, she becomes hysterical and
i. grabs a knife from the kitchen or something and kills her dad on the spot before trying to shake!! her mum awake (wah so drama) [END]
OR
ii. hurriedly phones for the ambulance while the dad escapes from the crime scene. Then the next day the doctor pronounces her mother dead 'cos her heart was stabbed too badly. The protagonist went wild in the mind and specially goes home from the hospital, ...
and sits on the sofa, waiting...
Waiting for her dad to come home, with a chopper/knife/gun...
Waiting to kill... [END] -.-
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Yup that's all from my TRAGIC brain for now. I realise our ideas are all very TRAGIC haha and they can be summarised like this:
Poverty -> Abused + Bullied = Pressure + Suffer in silence = Crime or Suicide/Homicide/Death = TRAGEDY :D
Haha, have a sunny Sunday though our drama researches are very TRAGIC! Bai!
- Shichun
P/S. Methinks Bernie's and Michelle's research on the effects/signs of child abuse is informatively useful and pretty thorough. If we really work on this topic for our play, that can really be put to use :D
P/P/S. Hilary's and Klara's ideas are pretty nice :) Although I'm a bit confused with the aims of the scrupulous company, the tensions can all be really well-created if we work on it I think :D
Labels: (Child) Abuse
