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This is just a story I had to write in Spanish I. We watched a movie called Don Quixote which is based on the famous Spanish novel, and then we had to write a story based on the values and ideas of that movie. I used Boogiepop because I was sorta obsessed, but I used different spelling cuz I didn't want to break some copyright law or something. Here goes, just for fun! ^-^ 4laugh


Arin sat on the bench just outside school, flipping through her sketchbook. The blue lined pages filled with sketches of a cloaked figure she named Boogypop. She doodled a lot in class, drifting of into a world only she knew of. Besides, the same thing happened every day. Get up, got to school, learn, and go home. In fact, she thought it was too monotone. Everyone acted like robots, life-like yet emotionless. Simply living their unfulfilled lives following their daily programing. In fact, Arin was mad. No one lived their life to the fullest, used their imagination, escaped. Everyone was "normal." Well, no longer.

Arin rushed home and found her mother sitting at the kitchen table, exactly where she was everyday Arin came home from school. Aggravation boiled up inside her. How could her mother be happy with the same life? Arin rushed to her room, a place where she could get away from the emotionless androids. The world must be betraying her. Was she to only one who had any creative thought? Would she have to show them? Yes. She must show them all, there is something better that what the Grand Programmer has planned for them. Yes, that's it. The one behind it all, the Man behind the Curtain, he tells them what to do. Arin must fight him to bring life into the world. No, Boogypop must. The Defender of Life.

Arin sprinted out of her room, cloaked as Boogypop. She flew down her stairs into the kitchen, where her mother sat waiting for her. Her mother motioned for her to sit, as she did every day. "Are you so unaware of your own feelings, Mother? Is this how He tells you to act, so calm and plain? Enough!" Boogypop yelled to the motionless woman. Boogypop slapped her mother trying to knock some sense into her. Her mother responded and grabbed for her daughter. But Boogypop slipped away. She dashed out the door, into the lifeless and colorless world. She approached peopled, tired to get them to notice, to snap out of their daily routine. But no one paid attention. They shoved her away and ignored her, continuing their cycle.

Like puppets on a stage they danced around her, avoiding her tainted ideas of color and creative thought. She sobbed. Did no one care for her ideas? Her idea that was different from that of the Puppet Master that controlled their lives. His influence was everywhere. School, the workplace, at home. No on was free. They were all being watched and corrected. But one boy shared Boogypop's feelings. he approached her, and offered his hand to help her up. She told him of her ideas, for life and freedom from the Man behind the Curtain. he agreed, but said no words. He was not allowed to. he too, was programmed, not allowed to express his true feelings for this wonderful girl and her rebellious ways, not allowed to be different, for he would be frowned upon by everyone. Everyone. So he joined her in silence.

Boogypop continues her fight against the Puppet Master and the boy still stand silently by her side, admiring her passion.


This story is supposed to represent how society (the puppet master) tells us what to do and how to act, and labels us. Don Quixote was a very anti-society story as well. Hope you liked it... It's not meant to be a great story, but it was a one page assignment...

It does doesn't it. Maybe I should have made Nagi the heroine instead of Boogiepop... whee But yes, that's one of the main points. And the other main one is that society controls our lives.

I'ma comin' outta your T.V., gonna haunts joo!

eek Wow! I just finished the novel, and there's actually a reference of Nagi being called a female Don Quixote. Had I read that before I had this assignment, I would've done it about Nagi! xp