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The Color of Sunset

“… I believe in God. And I will always believe in you, too. I don’t know where such faith will take me. I just know it will take me to someplace very good…“

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Cris & Anna

Star-crossed protagonists, and the messages / themes they bring to the story

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Story Logline

(Short Synopsis / Summary)

When Filipino-American Cris and rural beauty Anna are drawn into a ten-day whirlwind romance, their short summer together unfolds as a love story for the Philippines, and years later blossoms into a love story for God.

STORY FEATURES

Theme #1 (Sub-theme): Coming of age love story
Theme #2 (Main Theme): Love Story for the Philippines
Theme #3 (Main Theme): Love Story for God
Written in shifting first person perspective (girl / boy shifting 1st person POV)
Colloquial, informal tone / language (as a young adult would say, think, and act)
64,000 words, 230 pages

NARRATIVE STYLE

Start as the typical boy-meets-girl story (sub-theme)
Plant and grow main themes via subtext (to be found if the viewer looks deeper)
Share / reveal main themes at their corresponding optimal times—however…
… Always stay aligned to the above sub-theme (two young adults telling us—in their own words, manner, and deepest thoughts—what happened to them that summer)

Love for God
(100 percent c/o Anna)

Personal Relationship with God
Deep Friendship with God
Unshakable Faith in God
Outpouring / Overflow of God’s love
Saint Therese of Lisieux, The Little Way
Christian Religion / Christianity

Love the Philippines
(predominantly c/o Cris)

Politician, Senator, Politics, USA Exile
Third World Democracy, Voting
Filipino Masses (Masa)
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW)
Rural Philippine Provinces
Ilocos Norte, Luzon

New Adult, Coming of Age
(c/o both protagonists)

Summer vacation after college
De La Salle University (DLSU)
Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU)
Saint Pedro Poveda College / Institucion Teresiana (IT)
New Adult / Young Adult Fiction