CROSS MY HEART

12 March 2015

At the age of twelve, she had been sent to a convent. Her father said it was the price that she need to pay. But, she did not understand what does it means. Why she need to pay the price? What had she done? All of these questions kept wandering in her mind. They called Laura ‘La Muta’ which means The Silence One. Unfortunately, she is about to break her silence.

Laura della Scala. Her father is a powerful man and had decided what she needs to do in her life. She also had a sister that she loved so much. One day, Abbess met Laura and said that she was going to leave the convent and someone would wait for Laura at the south entrance. She confused whether Abbess was testing her or not. When she arrived at her house, she saw a coffin. She was so sad because her sister was the one in the coffin. Suddenly, he father told her that she needed to replace her sister as Vincenzo fiancée.

After a few days, Laura and her father went for a party. Surprisingly, she saw a man that she met at the convent. At that time she was helping that man by taking the poison out of him. She was told that she could not say a single word about that incident because no one in Venice could find out what he suffered. Then, one of the woman at the party told Laura that man was the most powerful man in Venice, Doge. While she was having a conversation with Paulina and Carina, and old man came toward them. He is Vincenzo. Laura felt surprised and sad because she needed to marry an old man.

Allegreza told Laura secretly that she could help her from marrying Vincenzo. But she needed to tell them a secret. In order to save herself, she told them Doge’s secret. After a few days passed, it revealed that Vincenzo was a spy of Venice’s enemies.

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In my opinion, the most significant aspect about this material is secret. Secret is something that we supposed to keep it from being revealed. It is because the word is sharper than a sword. So, I think that a single word can destroy one’s life. It does not matter whether he is the person that we trust the most, he still can stab us from the back in order. Just like Vincenzo and Doge, both of them had their own secret and once it revealed to the world it is a nightmare for them. All the secrets should be seal in a 'Pandora Box'.