Hi,
This the story which I wrote, would you please read it and tell me what do you think?By the way, I didn’t write it as a trial to write stories . It’s a trial to practice writing and using vocabulary and the conditional statements.
The Killing Ambition
Five miles from Sant Bern the big port in England, there was a small town called Bon. Bon was facing an economical Crisis . Many of the workers were fired out of their jobs. Bernard, a twenty year old man , was working in one of the three factories in Bon. He hardly found that job, he was working from the morning till night and was getting trivial fee. He lived in a small demolished room near the river.
One day, he was walking down the hill, he was so tired , hungry and upset. He sat under a palm tree and fell asleep. After awhile he heard a voice, “ Bernard…Bernard…wake up!”. He opened his eyes and looked , his friend ,Clare, was awakening him.” What are you doing here?”, Clare said,” you should be working now”.” I’ve been fired out”, Bernard replied. The owner of the factory where Bernard works fired out many workers , he had no money to pay for them. Bernard now has no source for money, he is a poor man. He had no relatives or wealthy friends to help him. On their way home, he told his friend that they will search for new jobs the next day.
Next morning, Clare and Bernard went to find jobs in the two remained factories in their town, but they were not accepted. Then, they walked towards the dairy farms, they asked the owners, yet they were not approved ,too. Clare got so angry,” we should leave this miserable town”, “ yeah, we have to travel to Sant Bern”, Bernard said,” In Sant Bern we can work, we can gain money, lots of money, we can be kings, we might own a ship there”. But, Clare reminded him that the only way to get to Sant Bern is by train, and they do not have money to pay for the tickets. Bernard hit his forehead with his fist and shouted,” money, money …what a curse! … we can’t live a noble life because of money. Clare, also, drew his attention to the fact that the best job they can get in Sant Bern is a porter. Bernard sat on the ground covering his face with his hands and said in grief,” I wish I were a rich man… if I had enough money, I would buy a beautiful house and a dairy farm, or I would buy a factory, people will work for me, I would marry a beautiful princess”. Clare tried to soothe him, he said,” do not worry, Bernard, we’ll get the money and travel to Sant Burn”.
In the evening, while they were walking home, they passed through Mr. Bulks farm, the richest man in the town. They heard sounds of music and people laughing. They came closer, they saw people dressed in neat clothes were dancing and eating lots of types of food and beverages. Bernard was gazing at Mr. Bulk who dressed in an expensive brown suit and was talking to his guests proudly. He said in his mind ,” I wish I were in your foot”. Bernard fastened in his place looking at that man and his house. After long minutes of witnessing Mr. Bulk, Bernard said,” I’ll rob his house”, Clare was shocked ,” Did you loose your mind?”.” No, my mind is still with me… listen Peter, if we robbed his house and took his money, we would be kings, look at them , they’re living as kings, they don’t care about us, the poor, listen… I’m going to do it, are you going to help me?”. After a moment of thinking and gazing at Mr. Bulk’s feast, Peter agreed.
At midnight, Peter and Bernard set to Mr. Bulk’s farm, they climbed the fence and infiltrated to the big house. Peter went to the kitchen side, the maid was sleeping there. Bernard looked around, nobody was there. They broke a window and entered the house. None of the guards noticed their existence. They went up stairs looking for the coffer. Bernard entered a room where Mr. Bulk was sleeping, and the coffer was next to his bed. He walked slowly towards it and tried to open it, but he could not. He called Peter and whispers to him,” I can’t open it”. “ let’s awake Mr. Bulk and ask him about the key”, Peter said. “Are you crazy?, he will know us, or he will call the guards”. “ No he won’t, we’ll hide our faces , and if he tried to make any noise , I would kill him”.” What!. Peter… you hardly agreed to steal money, and now you want to kill the man”.” I’ll kill him,yeah, I agreed to steal money, so I’m committing a crime. If I killed him , it would be the same crime, what’s the difference?”.
In a rush, Bernard hid his face with a piece of cloth and awakened Mr. Bulk. Mr. Bulk was afraid, he said in a trembling voice,” if you need money , I’ll give you much of it, but don’t kill me”. Bernard ordered him to open the coffer, and he did. The coffer was full of money. Both Bernard and Peter were fastened in their places. Then Peter sat in front of the money and said,” Oh God, we’ll be rich… let’s fill our bag”, they started filling their bag with Bulk’s money.” If you had brought a big bag, we would have taken all the money, by this bag, we can’t carry even its forth”. While they were filling their bag with money, Mr. Bulk took his chance to escape from the room. He went down stairs and called the guards.
The guards went up stairs, they fought with Bernard. One of the guards shot Peter, this made Bernard so mad, he kicked that guard with his legs and shot him by his gone. Bernard , then, was captured by the other gaurds. Mr. Bulk called the police, they came and took Bernard to jail.
In jail, Bernard was silent, his heart was full of anguish for the loss of his friend. He spent the whole time in jail thinking and blaming himself for involving his friend in this incident. “ If I hadn’t asked him to come with me, he would have been alive now”, he cried.
Two days later, Bernard was sentenced to death. On the day of execution, the guards were pushing him towards the guillotine, he was shouting “ I didn’t mean it, I just wanted money… I didn’t want to kill anyone. If you had given us a chance to work, we wouldn’t have thought of robbery” nobody was affected by his words. The guards kept on pushing him, and stood on the guillotine. In minutes, he was executed. he was buried next to his friend Peter.