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(character) wants (goal) because (motivation), but (conflict) (a man named shemuel) wants (to become a male model) because (women like models) but ( he is amish and modeling is frowned apon)

Ever since he was adopted at the wee age of two he has been put to work tending the fields of his parents. When he was of age he began to milk the cows, he got up before the break of dawn. This was a hard life style making him look 20 at the age of 15. He had known of his adoption and felt a deep void in his heart to find his true calling. He once got a sample magazine in the mail where he got his first taste of modeling. Shemuel was 15 years of age at the time; he felt is heart and void being filled with the idea of this profession called modeling. He mentioned this idea of modeling to his mother and father whom automatically shut that idea the said “if you ever leave to become a model you will be shunned from our community and you will never be able to see us again". Shemuel knew he would be disconnected from his family forever if he left, but at 18, he left without a trace. He went straight from his small home town in Ohio, to the big city of New York. He started living on his own not having any particular skill set. He eventually got a job as a New York City bus driver he slowly gained some money and rented his own apartment on the outskirts of town. Shemuel thought the next order of business would be to find a wife. He tried the club scene; however the women at the clubs were not his ideal of a woman. One bright warm Sunday morning he realized he missed the lord and wanted to go to church, so he put on his nicest pants and button up shirt and made his way to the local church, the church was a nondenominational church. There he really enjoyed the modern praise and the preacher’s styles were nothing that he had ever heard before, however he quite enjoyed it. He met wonderful young women at his own age. The went to the local Starbucks after church and really hit it off. Time went by and shemuel and his new friend Jamie grew quite fond of each other and began spending most of their time together. Eventually they got married at 25 and moved to the suburbs of long island. As newlyweds they had a child named Sean and life seemed pretty good. Shemuel had gone to the local community college to get his degree in nursing and Jamie had gone to college to become a counselor so they were making a good living to support themselves and their child Sean. As Sean got older Shemuel joined the elementary school’s pat and tried as best as possible to be the best dad he could because he had remembered never meeting his real dad and his adopted dad wasn’t exactly the nicest caring man in the world. Shemuel became the coach of his son’s baseball team and took his son to his karate lessons at the local dojo. Sean really looked up to his father and they had a wonderful relationship and the family as a whole was extremely strong and routed in the lord. With his life really coming together, he realized he hadn’t talked to his family in years and he missed them a lot. Then he also remembered the reason that he had originally came to the big apple, modeling. He had figured after hours of thinking that he was too old by then and life hadn’t been too good to his appearance so he dropped that dream and figured it would be much more beneficial to focus solely on his career of nursing which was an enjoyable job for him. One night he had a dream that shocked and scared him to death. His dream reflected his life which had been good, then reflected on the lives of his family and friends from the Amish, this image of despair and anger hurt him. When he awoke he made the decision to pay a visit to his family. He didn’t know how to tell his wife this, but he had wanted Jamie and Sean to accompany him on his journey back home. On a crisp, cool Friday morning he and his family had set out on a homecoming of sorts that he was death fully dreading, but he knew it had to be done. Late in the night he pulls up in front of a dimly lit house on the rolling hills of the country. He slowly opened his car door and took a step out onto the moist damp grass which he hadn’t seen in years. He began the 25 yard long walk to the front porch. This walk seemed to take an hour or so. As he approached the front door he stopped and thought to himself all the bad things that could come out from this visitation. As he knocked gently on the door he heard footsteps coming and his heard was dead with fear. All of a sudden a jiggling door handle had caused him to come back to life, knowing that this moment would be stuck in his mind for ever, he just hopped they would still love him. The door opened and there stood his mother who seemed confused, she called her husband down stairs to see who the guest was. His mother said to him, who might you be, you know its uncustomary to come uncalled for this late at night. Shemuel just looked at his mom in disbelieve that the didn’t recognize him. Shemuel said “it’s your son, Shemuel”. "Oh my lord" said his mother as she embraced her son with love and exceptance just as the father from the prodigal son in the Bible did. His mother and father invited him in and had a conversation and caught up. Though, shemuel and his family returned home, his relationship with his parents stayed strong and he returned home for many many more visits before his father unfourtunantly died of cancer. "At least I got to reunite with my family and love them for years before my father died" said Shemuel as he sat down with his new baby jessica, happy and satisfied with what his life had become.
 * Breaking Amish**