The story
Benjamin Darwin
Introducing Benjamin Darwin, In 1095 August 16, Benjamin is a poor young peasants who lived in Lyon, Paris, his whole family has no money, so they’re family started to farm pope urban ii, because they said that “they earn more money working with the king”. One day, 1095, Pope urban ii announced, “If you capture the holy land Jerusalem, you will have a free ticket to go to the heaven!” But Benjamin wasn’t there so he didn’t know. In 1096, Peter the hermit started to travel along with the crusaders, benjamin saw the people, and join with them, to capture Jerusalem.
1096 June 9, As Peter the hermit arrived at Nis, the crusaders were mad and destroyed the place and stealing, so the army of Nis, started to attack. The crusaders were getting slain and got shot at a arrow, Benjamin lost his family, Benjamin tries to avoid the fight, and trying to pass the battle. While the battle is happening, Peter the Hermit ran away to the mountains into a cave, which leaves the crusaders have no money and no food. Benjamin ran fast until he make it to the finish line as it a race, until he made it over to the other side, and had nothing to do.
In 1097 April 2, after the battling Nis, Benjamin and the crusaders were lost and had nothing with them no food and no money, and nothing to survive, benjamin is really skinny, you can almost can see his ribs sticking out from his body, and all were suffering, starving for food, one by one each of the crusade started to die, as the last person is Benjamin, he was suffering really bad, as the same time Benjamin started to fight back the pain, but it was it too late, Benjamin lied down the sand and starved to death, The crusaders lost to Nis, but later on the crusaders will rise up until the end of there line.
Crusader Narrative
1. What was enjoyable about writing your narrative? Be specific.
I enjoyed that when I write how we want the story to be differently, like some people write a person is a peasant, or prince, or a king. It is fun writing like that, or else it would be boring if we just write the same as others.
2. What was challenging about writing your narrative? Be specific.
How we have to put the time, because we have to know the exact dates which is hard for me, and how the story gonna end, because I don't know what to write in the end, it's quite difficult for me to think how the story is gonna end.
3. Evaluate (describe) your experience as a historical fiction writer. If you had more time, what would you have liked to research further/change about your narrative?
It's like the first time writing a historical fiction, is not that bad, because, you know how the story is going, and the history is going, so it's like Social Studies and Language Arts together as one. If I go back and change something, I would change my character to be more into battle, because like if it's just a peasant then it would be a short story, if it's like a prince or a like a knight, then it might be a long story, but because I have no time to do that, so I went with the peasant.
4. Which crusader primary accounts or other sources did you use to help you replicate the language, events, or tone of your account? Please specify from the list which you found helpful.
I didn't use the source from the link but I use a Extra History in Youtube, to help me using my story, it helped me because it shows how the crusaders are doing and the story how did the crusaders rise, or fall, like they attacked many villages, and stealing stuff so that they can survive.
I think It is just right for writing a peasants, because like in the crusades many and many peasants or crusaders died while capturing the holy land, so I can't make my character a beast or else that would not be like a historical fiction, because historical fiction is real and fake at the same time, like my character is a fake person, but the setting of the story is real, and I try to keep the story fair or else it would be like fantasy instead of historical fiction.
