Shelby De Lappe Story summary My client is Chateau Ste. Michelle and they represent the wine industry. The audience my client is going for is women from ages 21-28 who have a soft spot in their heart. They would be a type of women who is driven and classy. The women in the target audience would be women who make a comfortable amount of money, in upper middle class. My audience should engage in the story I am writing because it is a feel good story. It has sad parts but in the end it has a happy ending. I want my audience to feel a sense of happiness when they read my story. It is supposed to be a heartwarming story and I want the audience to feel that way. The point of view is from a grandchild of my main character. This just adds another positive spin on the story because you can tell how much her granddaughter loves her grandmother. It makes it easier to sympathize with her rather than just having a narrator. The information they will take away from the story is the wine is a reminder to two people who love each other that their love will never fade. It want my story to give the audience positive thoughts about my client’s product. This story takes place mostly in a car. It also takes place at a aunt’s house and grandmother’s house for a short period of time. This is significant to my reader because where the story takes place is not as nearly as important as what kind of message the story contains. So even though they are not very remarkable places, the story itself is still meaningful. The story will be structured in a manner that gives my readers a little insight to who my main character is as a person. I want my audience to know that my main character is a good person, reiterating another part of what makes it a happy story. Character Outline My character wants to make her family happy and to love her husband. The goal for my main character is to explain to her granddaughters how she met her husband and how far she’s come with him. The main problem my character faces is that she loved a married man that had children who were older. The other problem my character faced is that her husband is getting older and she is starting to worry about him. The obstacles my main character faces is that she initially is not even supposed to be seeing grandpa bob. She doesn’t mention a plan for dealing with her husband but she does mention being worried about him. My main characters job is at stake, and in a way the rest of life. Her job was at stake because she could have been fired for seeing her boss, someone that she really wasn’t supposed to be seeing. In an way the rest of her life was at stake because she was marrying into a family with lots of kids who are older who were leery of her. If that didn’t end well her life could have been a living hell. Story Outline A Marriage United I don’t remember when I learned my grandmother wasn’t actually related to me. It seems like I always knew she was only my grandmother by marriage but ever since I can remember I have loved her with my whole heart. My father is one of six kids, all of his siblings, including him, are married and there are16 grandchildren and 5 greatgrandchildren. This being said I have a rather large family on my father’s side. Grandma Suze has always loved each and every one of us like we were her own for as far as I can remember. She and my grandfather have been married for just over 54 years and she has never waivered from the madness of the George family. A few years ago I was on my way to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary celebration. I was in the car with a close cousin of mine and both of my grandparents. We had just started our 30-minute drive and were chatting along when I asked my grandma and grandpa how they had met. My grandma gave a small smile and began to weave me the tale of how they got to be where they are today. “It all started when I got my first job after graduating from college,” my grandmother began. She talked about how that she had just graduated from an all women’s college on the east coast and had just moved back home. She had just gotten her first job at Boeing as a secretary in the Human Relations department. At the time my Grandpa Bob was working in the same department but higher up in a management. They immediately caught each other’s eye and began seeing each other shortly after. My grandma explained that because my grandfather was higher up in the department and she was just a secretary it was highly frowned upon for them to be dating, she explained further that they just knew they were meant to be and six months later they were married. My grandpa was a few years older than her and had recently gone through a divorce, I mentioned earlier my dad was one of six and at the time his youngest brother was 12 and his oldest sister was 21. She told my cousin and I how intimidated she was to join a family where her step children were all older and weren’t accustomed to having another woman in the house. My grandmother then laughed and continued on by saying how she knew my dad and his brothers and sister were leery of her but she killed them with kindness. Laughing to herself she said, “Some days I wasn’t sure how I was going to survive, but I seemed to have made it!” Just as she was finishing her story we pulled into my aunts house where the celebration was taking place. She put it into park and we all got out, as we were doing so my grandpa stepped out and looked at my grandma and said, “What are we doing here again dear?” “Darling, it’s our 50th wedding anniversary. Come on now keep up,” she said back. He chuckled and shook his head as if he could hardly believe that slipped his mind. Now my grandfather is in excellent health for his age but he doesn’t drive because he has horrid eyesight. However, every now and then he’ll say or ask something like that that makes us believe his memory is beginning to show signs of Alzheimer’s. Nothing serious yet but recently my grandma has had to help grandpa with things he normally doesn’t need help with. After we arrived the rest of the family showed up as well and the party was in full swing. Everyone was excited to see each other; we feasted, caught up and shared quite a few laughs. After a while my grandpa opened a bottle of wine and poured all the legally aged adults a glass of wine. He stood up and made a toast to grandma and their marriage. He cherished her, and by the end of the speech we all had a tear or two in our eyes. After a while the party died down and we all made our way home. I was staying with my grandparents that night and was chatting with my grandmother before I went to bed. As we were talking about how much fun we had that day she mentioned the bottle of wine. Curious, I questioned her further and she went on to tell me why that bottle of wine was so special. It turns out it was from the winery where their marriage took place. She explained that when she way planning their wedding the only thing grandpa wanted a say in was where it would take place. “He told me that Chateau Ste. Michelle was so beautiful,” she said. “He told me its beauty reminded him of me and he refused to have the wedding anywhere else.” The wine my grandfather poured at their anniversary celebration was the same cabernet sauvignon they had at their wedding 50 years ago. It was bottled the same year they were married. Grandma continued on and admitted that she was starting to worry about grandpa more but then he turn around and do things like serving the wine that meant so much to them. Grandma says she even though some days are hard she knows he still remembers his love for her.