Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: retired teacher is forced from Upper West Side apartment in New York City, Fact2: building be knocked down in order to be built, Fact3: Coombes chooses to travel cross country with pet cat Tonto, Fact4: Harry has issue Initially planning to fly to Chicago, Fact5: Harry 's shy grandson was supposed to bring him back to New York
Output (English): Harry Coombes Art Carney is an elderly widower and retired teacher who is forced from his Upper West Side apartment in New York City because his building is going to be knocked down in order for a parking lot to be built. He initially stays with his eldest son Burts family in the suburbs but eventually chooses to travel cross country with his pet cat Tonto in tow. Initially planning to fly to Chicago, Harry has an issue with Airport Security checking his cat carrier. He instead boards a longdistance bus. He gets off so Tonto can urinate Harry tries to get Tonto to use the bus toilet, to no avail, then buys a 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air from a used car salesman. During his episodic journey, he befriends a Biblequoting hitchhiker Michael Butler and underage runaway Ginger Melanie Mayron, with whom he visits an old sweetheart Geraldine Fitzgerald in a retirement home, who only halfremembers him. He visits his daughter Ellen Burstyn, a bookstore owner in Chicago, with whom he shares a prickly but mutually admiring relationship. Ginger and Harrys shy grandson who was supposed to bring him back to New York end up going off to the commune together in Harrys car, with his blessing, so he and Tonto are on their own again. Continuing west, Harry accepts a ride with a healthfood salesman Arthur Hunnicutt, makes the acquaintance of an attractive hooker Barbara Rhoades on his way to Las Vegas, then spends a night in jail with a friendly Native American Chief Dan George. He eventually makes it to Los Angeles, where he stays with his youngest son Larry Hagman, a financially strapped realestate salesman, before finding a place of his own with Tonto, who, much like Harry, is dealing the best he can with the hardships of old age. After Tontos death, Harry is living alone by the Pacific Ocean, making new friends, enjoying the climate. As the film ends, he sees a young cat who looks exactly like Tonto, and follows him to the beach, where a child is building a sand castle. They share a smile as the sun sets.