Scene Idea

I have a few ideas for the IB IA of Krik? Krak! What I found most interesting in these stories was the idea of courage. In Children of the Sea, I was curious as to what might have happened if the narrator's mother would have stood up to the guards. Could she have actually saved her neighbor's life? Would she have been in trouble by the guards? My idea, although open to change, is to portray that scene, but to have the mother actually go and stand up to the guards. Why I want to do this is to show a strong theme of unity. Throughout all of these stories, every character has either had, or needed, someone else to rely on. Therefore, I wanted to make a scene where the one character who does not have someone,  gets someone to help her. In order to complete this scene, I believe it would need three people. One for the guard, the neighbor, and one for the mother. As to changing the physical location of the scene,  I thought it might be interesting to put the scene into modern day with modern issues while still keeping the reason for why she is being prosecuted.  I am not entirely sure at the moment how to properly show this, but I would love if maybe we could incorporate modern day costumes and setting. I feel as though this would be a good idea because we could show a major theme that exists throughout the novel, but we would also be able to expand on a minor detail (that of what happened to the neighbor) and make it more eye opening and interesting to the audience. The lead character would be the neighbor, so that in addition to the new story/plot, we would have a new focal point and perspective. While this may be hard to execute, I think the scene would be really captivating. In addition to the theme of courage, we would also be able to see the theme of women helping women. Throughout the novel, there is motherly affection, and close friendship among women. Because this scene in the book lacks this, I think it would be a big change to incorporate this alternate ending.

Even if we decide not to do this scene, I would love to participate in one that reflects some of the bigger themes in the book. Whether it ends up being courage, friendship, or unity, I really enjoy being a part of it. I hope that our class is able to come up with some unique ideas that incorporate the themes of the novel and perhaps even establishes alternate endings. If we are able to do this, it would give a new perspective and feeling to the stories of the novel. In addition, I believe this scene will teach the audience as to why it is so important to help others. We already know the ending that happened, but this new ending is the what could have been.