Secluded

Sawyer was born in a small town on the outskirts of Philadelphia. For him the city meant freedom and liberty, its dense population was representative of opportunity to Sawyer. Brown, Sawyer’s father, was a man of principal he followed tradition as the blueprints to his life. Brown Cromwell lived with his family in a small cottage on the outskirts of the city of brotherly love, they lived on bread, fish, and during the hunting season deer. During Sunday mass one day Sawyer knew that he would have to leave his community, his preacher mentioned the word “death” and it occurred to him that he was going to live in this community and wait to die his whole life, hoping to be one day saved by god. Sawyer’s best friend, Johnson, had the same aspirations as Sawyer and one day, they promised each other that they would leave together towards a better life, a modern life. Their ambition was slowly drowning and every day they lived it took on more of a secondary role in their schoolboy daydreams.
Sawyer never completly forgot about his dreams and one day with Johnson they planed their great escape from the community. They would go at sundown and would stay at the voyager’s motel. The next day they planed to see skyscrapers and see televisions because Uncle Darby’s tube was as old as he was and showed nothing but static. The next day while arriving in downtown Phily, a little girl pointed at Sawyer and laughed screaming, “Mamma look at the Amish PEOPLE!”....