Week 9 Story Planning: The Doctor and his Rancher

The first thing I would like to do is establish a setting where the story could take place. The Filipino Tales originate from the Philippines so I would like to keep the setting there but go into a little more detail. The Philippines consist of 7,641 different islands but eleven of them consists of 95% of the total land. I could have the doctor live in his own private, tropical island where he has some livestock that a rancher takes care of. The rancher’s name could be Angelo while his wife to be could be named Mahalia. Angelo meets Mahalia one day when he is sent by the doctor to fetch some livestock feed for the cows. The doctor notices how happy Angelo gets when he is sent into town and asks him what the reason for that is. He then explains how he’s been seeing someone but suddenly gets sad in which the doctor then asks him why he is sad. Angelo explains he has always wanted to marry and start his own family but has never had the money to cover for the expenses of marriage. Angelo had been working for the doctor for more than 20 years and the doctor always knew this time would come. The doctor generously gives Angelo a large sum of money and tells him to take his boat and fetch his lover. He gives him instructions of where to go in the city for a nice suit and where Mahalia can get a dress and in the mean time, the doctor goes to look for the priest. Once they are back from the city the doctor already has the priest and ceremony ready to take place. The ceremony takes place and Mahalia agrees to marry Angelo. The next day the doctor tells Angelo he will build a new little house for them on the other side of the island where they can live comfortably and Angelo excitedly agrees. He ends up working for the doctor for the rest of his life and happier than ever. A good moral to this story would be to never think a goal is too far out of sight, or to always take a chance and you never know what may happen.

(Rancher Looking Over his Swine: StockPhotos)

Bibliography: 

Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler. Web Source.

Resource Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_Philippines