Plot
Mrs Hatshepsut has a lingerie shop, and uses to steal things from
others people pockets and give them another thing to compensate the loose. One
day she stole a mysterious lighter from s man’s coat, and that lighter would be
very important for the story. A man would arrive to her shop to buy a
nightdress for his wife, and asks her to try the nightdress on. But he will not
buy anything. Every one will steal something to each other, she will steal a
golden box and he will get the lighter. When the man leaves the shop, Mrs
Hatshepsut opens the golden box and discovers that it is a glass snail which
looks like a candle. She wants to turn it on but she realizes she doesn’t have
any lighter.
This chapter starts with the ex-wife of Mr Senenmut manipulating a
glass snail putting gunpowder into it. Then she puts it in a golden box and
leaves the present in her apartment for her ex-husband. Mr Senenmut is now
poor, and uses to steal things, so when he gets into the apartment he takes the
golden box and goes to a bar to think about what more can he steal. Then he
sees a lingerie shop and decides to get in to steal something. There he meets
Mrs Hapshepsut. When he goes back home his ex-wife has left him a message
telling him that she knows he had take away her golden box, but that she will
not call the police because it was his Christmas present.
Next day Mr Senenmut will come back again to Mrs Hatshepsut shop to
apologize because last day he didn’t want to buy a nightdress, he only wanted
to see Mrs Hatshepsut in a night dress. Then he asks her if she has a daughter,
and she answers that perhaps she had one a very long time ago, hundreds of
years ago, but that nowadays she doesn’t and that she feels so alone about
that. The she asks him to stay with her in Christmas and look after the
daughter she doesn’t have. He accepts and tells her that he knows her daughter
was called Neferure
Then we can choose two different endings, a tragic and a happy one. If
we choose the tragic one Mrs Hatshepsut will take out the gunpowder of the
glass snail for giving it to Mr Senenmut has a present. When Mr. Senenmut
arrives to Mrs Hatshepsut place he turns on the lighter three times and the apartment
blows. Then appears a little information about the 18th dynasty of
In
the happy ending they are totally in love, and when Mr Senenmut is going to
turn on the glass snail the lighter gets broken. Then they found the
instruction of the lighter and discover that if he had turned it on three times
the lighter would have exploded.
[Information] – [Introduction] – [Analysis] – [Conclusion]
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Marta Gimeno Mínguez
margimin@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press