A Staggering Work of Multi-Genre Genius

Prompt: Write an essay containing at least 2 different genres with transitions to show knowledge in multi-genre writing.

A Staggering Work of Multi-Genre Genius

Written by David Ries

Act I

A Flash of Sorts.

Everybody has those days when there is a storm outside, so one may peer out of a window only to see lightning strike off in the distance and then sees a slight change in the scenery. That one change could potentially change a person or could leave them unharmed, but we all know as people that stories without conflict normally appear unappealing and dull so we'll go with the first option.
Today we find ourselves watching a young lad, about the age of 15 winters, just sitting on a green couch, just 2 days after the mysterious abduction of his younger sister, staring out of the front living room window. The shades often remind him of a home from the seventies with the fabric so boldly colored but have lost their strength in flavor over time. Now leaving them as faded materials before his eyes. He watches the streams of rain gushing from the sky! A more than heavy down-pour! Winds beyond belief! Hurricane sized winds! A down pour like no other! He watches the highly accelerated winds blow the streams of water near/next to the horizon! Boredom, overwhelming the adolescence's short, meaningless, attention span.
A flash of lightning strikes in the distance. The world out of the window went blind for a millisecond. For when the flash was done there was no rain, the young lad saw the sun shining down on the glistening green grass. He notices a double rainbow in the background and that reminds him of some experience, that he couldn't quite exactly recall. He grabs his phone hoping he doesn't get abducted like his younger sister and walks out the door to examine the scene. The air, cozy, with the smell of warm root beer before him. There, on the road before his house, he sees a black van, a Ford E350 if one were to get into details. A shaded figure was seen next at the mailbox. The shaded figure held a shovel in his hands and was digging at the ground around the mailbox. The shaded figure chuckles a deep, low laugh. The lad yells at the figure to stop sabotaging the mailbox but instead of stopping, the shadowed figure pulls out the mailbox of the residence out of the ground and throws it in the back of the van. The lad flips out his phone to call the cops, but then he glances at the mysterious figure sitting in the driver's seat. The figure is looking at him and he is looking at the figure.
Then a flash of lightning happens and the lad is swept from his feet into the storm. As the powerful winds throw the lad around and as he sees his last view of the world over the edge of a cliff near the house. He thinks to himself and wonders most thoughtfully. Trying to compose just one sentence to summarize what was going on in his mind, a sentence that appears almost impossible! He tried, so many things happened just now, almost like trying to summarize your life in one sentence. So instead he asked a question trying to summarize recent events. Why did my sister take the mailbox?
One may be asking about the obscure, awkward situation that was just brought forth and its relevance to the story may be concerning, but before you set this essay down thinking it is an “A Staggering Work of Pointless Irrelevance you should be aware of a movie, that had came out several months previous. The review that came out absolutely swept the nation.

Act II

A Reviewer Reviewing A Review-able Movie in Dire Need of Reviewing.

This movie will have the crowd walking out the theater a hour after the movie ends, crying, desperately trying to stop their tears but it is impossible. It's the movie you'll be talking about for weeks and weeks afterwards with everybody you know. So many things happening at once that you wonder how they could place a bunch of action, character development, conflict, theme, meaning, entertainment and everything else a critic wants and then some!
You think. How is it humanly possible to add so much detail, the entire life of a person, his friends, his family and his enemies into one movie? That task sounds almost as absurd as asking a person to summarize their life in one sentence. Hard, complicated, complex, relevant and yet irrelevant. Makes you wonder what genius composed such a masterpiece. How did the genius put it into words and then make sure the actors portray the scene most accurately?
Then the movie leaves an indirect message at the end of the final sequence too complex to phrase in this review. An indirect message telling the audience to compose a sentence, just a single sentence, telling their entire life story.
Many attempts have been made by celebrities, publicly reading their sentence to their fans. Nothing coming even near the outstanding work of the movie. Six months after the release of the movie, six months after the challenge go day, the movie director announces to the public his sentence.
Crowds quickly gathered in front of the directors mansion in the matter of hours that day. People gathered around bars and diners to see what the news crews were capturing at such a magnificent event. Words came from peoples mouths in the audience; “What does this mean?” “I wonder what words he'll use.” “I hope driving 50 miles was worth the effort.” “This is worth it!”.
The moment people waited for, finally had arrived. World cameras were rolling as the director walked onto his balcony with a single microphone. He looks at the audience and the audience looks at him. By this point, the scene was on every television station there is. World leaders watching, the entire world population standing by to hear his words of power and wisdom. Translators standing in-front of big foreign non-English speaking auditoriums around the world. The director opened his lips and spoke;
“I have succeeded in my life by the mere fact, that I have successfully replicated it by composing it into a movie accurately representing me, my friends, my family, and even my worse enemies.”
Thank you captain obvious, This is critic/reporter Sandburg and signing out.
After such an intriguing review, authors everywhere started noticing an increase of suicides over the mere fact that people felt useless in their lack of composing the almighty sentence. Something had to be done. The Authors Organization of the World (TAOOTW) decided a meeting was greatly needed. So a memo was composed for the conference.

Act III

Author's Conference Memo

Who: Authors Organization of the World
What: A need of discussion of the topic of “Movie Review Stated Previous”
When: Tomorrow at 10:00 A.M.
Where: United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York
Why: The movie review titled “A Reviewer Reviewing A Review-able Movie in Dire Need of Reviewing.” has created conflict between people of all types. People are finding themselves useless in the fact that they are not able to compile such a difficult task of “Writing a single sentence that summarizes their entire life”. The use of the directors sentence should be composed into a lesson by teachers everywhere. These events have started to create depression in people and suicide is becoming more frequent.
Meeting Agenda includes topics relating to and/but not limited to;
Spreading the message of usefulness
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Teaching a faulty method to youth to prevent even further amounts of suicide
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Enabling people to write their own masterpiece
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Looking into the future
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What this could potentially cause
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responsibilities of the director
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Everybody's place in the world
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The plans went good, and the meeting went according to plan. Out of the deal they had decided to create a devise to help people with their almighty sentence. So an advertisement had to be made or else no one will even hear of the product. Right away they hired Alec Baldwin to be the main speaker.

Act IV

The Word Wibiliofier

Speaker:

Have you ever tried to sum your whole life into one little sentence?

Audience:

Yes!

Speaker:

Do you ever wish a professional writer could come along and assist you in writing your story?

Audience:

YES!

Speaker:

Now that is all possible with the most excellent “WORD WIBILIOFIER”!

Audience:

the what?

Speaker:

THE WORD WIBILIOFIER!! Here's how it works, all you do is tie it to your leg when you wake up and walk around all day. It will automatically detect your heartbeat, voice patterns, the voice patterns of your friends, family, and even your worse enemies!

Audience:

WOW!

Speaker:

Authorized by Microsoft, Apple, and The United Nations, it is available for an amazing low rate with guaranteed results!

Audience:

Now how much will this small device be costing me?

Speaker:

It's a $200 value, but yours for only $199.99!

Call now, 1-800-Dont-Die

Shortly after the advertisement was released,  local poet decided to compose a poem.

Act V

A Poem For The Illiterates Soul

Many there is a day when you do not know what people are talking about.

Many there is a day when you feel impaired due to your lack of literacy.

Many there is a day where you see lives of your friends going away.

Many there is a day when you wonder if their wealth was a curse.

Many there is a day where you see yourself all alone.

Many there is a day when you feel empty to the bone.

Many there is a day when you feel like all that you could have has sailed away.

Many there is a day when you wish you could have learned.

Many there is a day when you wish to summarize who you are, but realize you can’t write?

Many there is a day when you wonder and think to yourself, how does an illiterate person read this poem?

Many there is a day, when you wonder, is what you hear something based off of actuality?

Many there is a day, where you wait for Friday to come.

Act VI

Today? Tomorrow?

Sara woke up. She wondered “How shall I spend my time on this Friday off from school?”. She ran downstairs and placed a bagel in the toaster to warm up. Then she turned the television onto the news station to watch the weather for her three day weekend away from school. Friday and Saturday were nice days but their was a slight precipitation chance on Sunday she wasn't too thrilled about. Her bagel came out of the toaster and she began to eat it. Sara loves to read, especially when she eats, but today was different. As a matter of fact, the past month has been different. It all started when she had got home from seeing a movie. The movie challenged her and her friends and family to write one sentence summarizing her entire life.
She had already filled up three average sized notebooks and now she was halfway through her fourth. Her fourth notebook had a green cover and consisted of 70 sheets. 3 Days previous her family had placed an order on some strange new device called the word wibiliofier that was said to give her the sentence she was awaiting for. It should be coming any day now and she was super excited.
BOOM BOOM, she heard some banging overhead. The banging was her older brother and mom fighting over the car keys for the afternoon. The mom always wins the fight, but the brother is always finding a new way to sneak a spare key and take off in the car before his mom can catch him.
Sara decides to phone up her friend Sidney and to meet up at the park to hangout and to think of sentences that could conclude the challenge.
The park was recently replaced about two years ago, the equipment was suppose to appear new too but the graffiti junkies came the second night and took charge of the playground the second day. They allow people to go there, but beware for if you have intentions of making a change, this isn't the place for you. Words were going past Sara's lips; Shnazzy, interesting, non-boring, exhilarating and thrilling!
Sidney arrives with her notebook and a stack of pencils and they set to work. As they were working Sara sees a man, dressed like a scientist with the long white trench coat, walking towards them. He grabs Sidney, and Sara made an effort to scream and holler for help. She throws near by sand into the guys face but it was thrown up wind, rendering Sara blind, therefore useless.
“What is the last thing you want to do?!” Yells the kidnapper!
“I want to receive my Wibliofier in the mail!”
Shortly after police arrived on the scene. They found nothing. No evidence, but news reporters were there to keep record of the missing child and to make a story. A few months later the child was found and made cover stories.

Closing Act VII

Extra, Extra, Read all about it!

It’s almost a year from the release of the movie that changed lives. As we think to ourselves about what events have occurred,  we still all try everyday to compose a stellar sentence so you can join the other few successors in paradise. Freedom from personal goals, money, fame, and so much more are goals for the average American but today we come to you with a different story.

Professor Albert J. Smith was finally brought into custody today after the three month man hunt for this crazed kidnapper. Smith was reported and charged with cases of murder, kidnapping, theft, inhumane torture and vandalism. The remains of one of his victims, a girl, was found recently in a local pond. Dead and was clothed with a dark robe. Also found on the scene was a Wibliofier which had hit the markets last year. Since then the Wibliofier has been labeled as false, for its intentions were to give people the ultimate sentence they were looking for. The cause of the death of the girl is still unknown but it is thought that she was beaten over the head with a mailbox over and over again.

It’s sad stories like these that make people wonder, that make people think about the environment around them. Anything can happen, so as you think to yourself today what words you could incorporate into your sentence. Think about the souls that have tried and have died because of this affect.

The film director came out, and summed up this last year just for fox news yesterday, into one sentence.

“The past year, is the year composed of the effects of a movie and the peoples ability/determination to incorporate them into their lives.”

After such words of wisdom, I challenge the general public to stop pondering how to create the sentence. For the last sentence that will be seen from me, about me will be this;

“My life is complete in the sense, I have made this sentence after a year of effort for it shows how I can dedicate myself for a single task.”