Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: fellow passenger asks him about place, Fact2: natives of island of Manakoora During colonial era in are contented lot South Pacific, Fact3: Terangi him not to at least take her with him on ship 's next voyage leave, Fact4: crew goes to bar to celebrate, Fact5: governor is forced to sentence over objections of Terangi 's captain
Output (English): As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint Thomas Mitchell blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback. During the colonial era in the South Pacific, the natives of the island of Manakoora are a contented lot. Terangi Jon Hall, the first mate on an islandhopping schooner, marries Marama Dorothy Lamour, the daughter of the chief Al Kikume. She has a premonition and begs him not to leave, or at least take her with him on the ships next voyage, but he makes her stay behind. Upon reaching Tahiti, the crew goes to a bar to celebrate. When a racist white man orders them to leave, Terangi strikes him and breaks his jaw. Unfortunately, the man has strong political connections, and the governor is forced to sentence him to six months in jail, over the objections of Terangis captain, Nagle Jerome Cowan. Back on Manakoora, Dr. Kersaint begs recently appointed local French Governor Eugene De Laage Raymond Massey to have Terangi brought home to serve his sentence under parole, but De Laage refuses to compromise his stern interpretation of the law, despite the pleas of Captain Nagle, Father Paul C. Aubrey Smith, and even his own wife Mary Astor. Unable to bear being confined, Terangi repeatedly tries to escape, lengthening his sentence by another 16 years, much to the delight of a particularly harsh jailer John Carradine. Finally, after eight years, Terangi succeeds in getting out, but at a terrible price: he unintentionally kills a guard. He steals a canoe and returns to Manakoora after an arduous journey. At the end, he is rescued from his overturned canoe by Father Paul, who promises to remain silent. He is reunited with Marama and a daughter Kuulei De Clercq he has never seen before. Chief Mehevi recommends the family hide on a tabu island, where no one will look for them. However, De Laage discovers their preparations and commandeers the schooner to hunt them down. Terangi turns back to warn his people after he sees birds fleeing the island, an unprecedented, ominous event that Marama had dreamed about many years before. A onceinalifetime hurricane strikes the island. A few, among them Dr. Kersaint and his pregnant patient, weather the disaster in a canoe, while Terangi ties his family and Madame De Laage to a stout tree. The rest drown, and the island is stripped bare. The tree floats away. Terangi later finds a war canoe in the water, which he uses to get his party to a small island. When they spot the schooner, Terangi signals it with smoke before fleeing in the canoe with his family. Governor De Laage embraces his wife, but then spots something far away through his binoculars. Madame De Laage insists it must be a floating log; suspecting Tarangi saved his wife, after a pause, he agrees with her.