Poetry 180

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Rubric for Short Story Final

	1: no evidence	2: attempted but limited	3: Fair	4: Good	5: Excellent
Attention to plot development  (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are all present. Logical sequence of events free of major plot holes or points of confusion )
Attention to character development (Attempts have been made to make characters realistic and/or compelling. Thought put into dialogue and character interaction).
Attention to setting (Setting details create sense of place that accentuates the plot)
Attention to theme (Attempts have been made to convey a theme or main message that is interpretable by the reader)
Attention to style (Word choice, sentence construction and variety and occasional use of figurative language all contribute to the dramatic feel of the plot/story.

Artiom K. Short Story Proposal

Exposition

The symbol of human achievements, the stone cold icon of pure power and glory, the crown jewel of a supreme empire, hardened by hundreds of years of survival through economic instability and political turmoil. Built on the blood and sweat, a beautiful city was raised which sheltered millions of its inhabitants from the blazing sun and resentfully cold nights of the harsh desert climate. As the empire continued its existence, it created close ties with liberalism and the strong belief the in the future. The vital part of the political formation and development was taken by the higher council, a group of influential priests that controlled the prosperity level in the city.

Inciting Incident

One of priests was a newly ordained man of middle age named Meti or righteous. As he was walking through the city, he was filled with zeal and ideas of the strong need to prove his eminence to the council. Before his visage fell a scene of a guard attempting to make a group of slaves carrying rocks move faster. As the group slowly accelerates its movement, a young woman overtook a huge and strong man. She was moving at a faster pace while carrying the same load. This act provoked disgust from Meti’s side as he would never expect a women working harder than a man who is several times stronger and in good medical health. This act also inspires the man to find a motivational factor to make the slaves work to their maximum physical capability.

Rising Action

As Meti continued to cogitate about the subject, he was gradually overtaken by exhortation for the need of reaching success in his task. He began imbibed by the idea of modernizing the social structure and system and dressed as a slave. He spent several weeks in a congregation of slaves trying to find what they truly want, what could make them work harder. His cellmate turned out to be the man he saw in the city whose name was Kamenwati which meant dark rebel who always pushed long and inaugurating speeches of glories freedom.

Climax

Meti understands that freedom is the most prominent aspect for motivating the slaves to work harder. As he continues to reason, he understands that by setting a slave free, he needs to provide an incentive for that individual to continue working. He comes to a conclusion to create a secondary currency that only the freed slaves would use. For each rock that is carried in, a freed slave will receive a specified amount of money that he will be able to spend to increase his material possessions.

Falling Action

With the cooperation with the higher council Meti imposes his system. Temporarily stunned by their sudden freedom, the freed slaves don’t know what to do with their newly acquired. As time continues to unravel, the system proves to be extremely affective as people try to earn as much money as possible. They built wagons to transport rocks faster, some people begin to serve food to the workers for money, and some provide medical assistance.

Resolution

The story ends with the people, unknowingly becoming slaves in another system that uses an individual’s natural desire for more against him.

Two Important Characters

Meti

Meti is a middle aged man who easily stood out of the crowd due to his differentiating features. He was a man of small proportions and seemed to be a dweller of establishments that focused upon their employee’s mental capabilities rather than physical. He had an ability to strike up a conversation inquiring any topic and had a calm personality. Just like any person in the higher council, Meti was affluent and had a strong sphere of influence in the city.

Kamenwati

Kamenwati was a young man that surpassed most of those around him in physical strength. During the time he spent with Meti, he has showed his passionate and emotional character and his wonderful abilities as an orator. Kamenwati is significant in the story because he provides Meti with the details of the life and the burdens and desires of a typical person in the lower congregations of society and acts as a stepping stone for Meti that will lead to a new social system.

Master Plot

I think this short story would be categorized as a pursuit without the elements of an adventure or quest because the main character remains more or less stationary throughout the story. This could also be categorized as a pursuit not as in the sense of escape but more like a moral struggle to achieve a goal. In the case of Meti, he wants to prove his is worthy of the position in the higher council and also wants to modernize the empire he loves.

Plot Frances Collins

Exposition: My story is about a teenage girl, 18 years old, who lives in Oregon with her powerful yet dysfunctional family. Her father abuses her, and she has flashbacks of the cruelty he unleashes upon her. She is then sent to a boarding school in Orange County CA, so that she keeps quiet about the abuse because her father is running for governor of Oregon.

Inciting Incident: After two years of beatings, she is finally found, by her mother, in a pool of her own blood at the bottom of the main staircase. She finally tells her mom what has been happening to her, but her mother is so repressed that she refuses to believe her daughter. She threatens to send her daughter to a psychiatric ward is she doesn’t stop telling lies, but for good measure Gwen is sent away to Ocean Academy, a boarding school in Orange County, CA.

Rising Action: The teenager goes to Ocean Academy, but is only a ghost of the person she used to be. She lives in a dorm and in her first week she meets a trio of boys who take her in. The treat her like a normal person, but soon she starts falling for the handsome soccer star in the trio. As they become closer, and spend romantic nights on the beach talking, he starts to realize she has a sticky past. He vows he will do anything to get past her walls.

Climax: One night, the teenager has a horrible flashback while she is sleeping and she cannot stay in the dorms any longer. She tries to pack up her stuff and run away, but the boy is close behind her. She tells him about her “dream,” while sobbing and he understands that it is not a dream. He doesn’t know what to say, and he has no idea how to comfort her.

Falling Action: After that night she goes back to see her father the next day. She tells him she’s getting all her stuff, and that after high school she’s never coming back. She also says that he might have won in the political field, but he failed her as a father, and that she was done feeling guilty about what he had done to her. She also tells him that if he ever touches her little sister, she will kill him. She leaves before he has a chance to say anything.

Denouemente: The story ends with the girl walking into her dorm room, dropping her stuff and walking out onto the each where the boy playing sand soccer.

Amar Khalilollahi's Short Story Proposal

RESILIENCY

Exposition: During the Cold War in 1963, a Special Forces-trained and war-hardened American spy named Harry Dermot is surveying the Soviet Union on a recon aircraft, scanning a huge area for missile silos and nuclear weapon plants. He is able to pinpoint the coordinates of 8 massive missile silos, with hundreds of warheads in each, and they are aimed right at the United States. He sends the data, along with the crucially important coordinates of each silo to Washington via satellite.

Inciting Incident: Harry’s aircraft is spotted by Soviet officials in Siberia, and is shot down with a SAM missile. Harry just escapes death, finding a parachute in his plane and fleeing before the explosion. He lands in hostile territory in Siberia and is soon caught and arrested. He is taken to one of the most infamous gulags in Russia, called Konomchutski in eastern Siberia.

Rising Action: Harry experiences horrifying conditions at the Soviet gulag. Food is served once a week, the temperature never gets higher than -5 degrees, there is no medicine for inmates whatsoever, he is forced to work incredibly hard at dangerous jobs without breaks and is essentially a slave. His stall has no real bed, is not heated, and there’s only a small hole for a toilet. Harry starts to plan a daring escape from the gulag; he has been there 5 miserable years, every day of which he has planned religiously how he will escape. Since day 1 he has planned for a Shawshank Redemption approach to breaking out. After he breaks out, he will trek 600 miles northeast to the eastern tip of Russia, along the Bering Strait. He will then build a makeshift raft with any tools and any materials he can find, and sail/paddle eastward 22 miles to Little Diomede Island, Alaska – which is American territory. In Alaska, he will be welcomed with open arms and cared for as an American hero. His geography and survival skills, along with his Special Forces training will keep him alive on the 600 mile trek (while being chased by Soviet authorities) in the coldest place on earth.

Climax: Harry carries out his plan at night and succeeds. The temperature is so low that his spit freezes before it hits the ground. He treks the grueling 600 miles northeastward and is the closest to death he has ever been in the story, cheating death by hypothermia several times, and probably would have died if he hadn’t succeeded in killing a bull caribou and sheltering himself in its entrails. He eats every single piece of flesh on the animal, desperately hungry. As he finally approaches the Russian coastline on the Bering Strait, he successfully builds a raft and sets sail for Little Diomede Island, having a close encounter on the coast with a Russian Hind helicopter, searching for him. He thought he does a good job evading this patrol chopper and seems to have taken to the sea unspotted.

Falling Action: Harry spots Little Diomede Island in the distance, but hears the Russian helicopter from earlier approaching him. It’s got him locked on target. The infamous, deadly Hind helicopter starts to fire its machine guns on him, then knocks him off his raft with a 30 mm cannon that just misses the kill zone. However, Harry is critically injured. The raging water around him is red. The Hind zeroes in, ready to fire its deadliest gun: an anti-armor missile.

Resolution: Harry knows there’s nothing he can do to save himself. But the American Air Force can. Out of nowhere, a missile hits and annihilates the Hind, and a Bell AH-1 Cobra comes out of nowhere. The angelic helicopter hovers over him, and drops a basket. Harry is bleeding profusely and, as an ominous sign to him, he cannot manage to climb into the basket. A man on the helicopter comes down to grab him and get him into the cabin. They try to bandage his wound in a futile attempt.

Denouement: He is transferred helicopters on Little Diomede and is rushed to an Anchorage hospital. He has a gaping hole in his torso, and his liver is hemorrhaging blood. The president makes a special trip to visit him in the hospital to pay his respects and hear Harry’s compelling story. Harry dies at the hospital right as the president walks out of the room.

Tenzin Arya-plot summary

Exposition

5yrs ago, Maya Sharma received a life changing opportunity to attend Cornell University. She is now back from U.S after 4 yrs. Her family greets her at the front gate of the airport.

Inciting Incident

 Maya is suddenly wakened up in the middle of a night by a loud mournful cry. The very next morning she learns that some thugs have been roaming around at nights and beating people just for fun.

Rising action

 Maya reunites with some old friends and goes out for dinner. She loses track of time and it’s already dark when they end their little reunion .She then starts walking fast hoping she won’t encounter those thugs.

Climax

She suddenly hears a kid crying and some men laughing. Maya cautiously creeps behind a wall and look over to see what’s happening. Some Masked men were beating up a street child .

Falling action

Terrified and scared, she flees from the crime scene for her safety and leaves the boy alone, hurt and dying.

Resolution

Maya reaches home safely but she feels guilty for not helping the poor innocent child. She realizes her degrees and awards have taught her nothing but increased her selfishness. Selfish enough to leave an innocent child die.Maya filled with guilt, could no longer stay in India. She goes back to United States to start a new life, trying to forget everything that happened.

Exposition: The story begins when Rick, an ex-cop wakes up, finding himself in an isolated chamber. His head throbs with pain and realizes he is handcuffed. Trembling in fear and hunger, he forces himself to sleep. As he sleeps there is a flash back taking him back to his incident.

Inciting Incident: It was just a normal day, some speed tickets and some paper work. Rick then receives a phone call from his wife who was screaming for help. and then dead silence. He rushes into his car and drives to his house. He takes his pistol out from his side belt and places the magazine inside. As Rick enters the house he finds his wife and he doesn't recognize tied up. Before he could untie his wife, he felt a crack on his skull. The next thing Rick knew was that his wife and the man was covered in a pool of blood. Both of them had died by a gun shot. and the gun used to shoot them, was his very own pistol. Charged with murder because of the killing of his wife and the man whom she had an affair with, was the death row. He was boiling with rage and wanted revenge to kill the person who had framed him.

Rising Action: Many of the other prisoners took their anger out on Rick because he used to be a cop. Each day his food was taken and he was constantly beaten by other criminals. A gang offers Rick an offer he could not refuse...freedom. They were planning on escaping the prison by force.

Climax: Rick awakens from his dream/flash back and remembers that today was the day to escape. (somehow they take the warden hostage, still thinking on how they do it) they force their way out of the prison. As the gang runs out to escape, Rick stays behind with the warden. the gang rushs out of the perimeter of the prison but waiting for them were prison guards. prison guards open fire with their pistols and kills all the gang members. Rick remains unhurt and takes the warden back to the prison. His rage and lust for revenge were too much. The next thing he saw was the warden, beaten to death by his own fists.

Falling Action: Rick falls on his knees and begins to weep. He regrets what he had done.

Resolution: He looks around the dead warden's body and finds a gun. Rick takes the gun and points it at his temple...

denouement: Rick was a character who decided to kill himself because he had broken his own morals. As a policemen, he obeys the laws and killing the warden had broken these rules. He had taken the life of someone who had nothing to do with his revenge. his own wanting for vengeance had led to his own death. The manifestation of revenge kept growing until he snapped. The warden represents the law, order and also Rick's moral. By killing the warden, he had killed his inner self.

Kings. Plot Summary

Exposition

The story starts out in New York city,Vince Lenin, Kent Flemings and Max Tears all come from different social backgrounds.

Kent is your typical golden boy, had been offered scholarships by several of the top colleges in the country,good looking, rich and one of the most popular guys at school, yet he is kind and never related to as being stuck up or proud.

Max is the wild one. He smokes, drinks and drives aggressively. He had been traveling around the world with his parents until a few years ago, his parent passed away and he was forced to stay in NYC to finish college.Inherited a great deal of wealth from his parents death and was also seen as the "player" among the trio

Vince is the main character in the story. He comes from a lower-middle class family, compared to the other two, he is your average Joe. Average grades,average appearance and average life, yet somehow he manages to be close friends with Max and Kent. From the first day they met, it was like meeting a long lost friend and they clicked instantly and had been best friends ever since.

Inciting Incident

A new semester begins, and Vince meets this girl by chance in a cafe near the college, she was a transfer student from Asia and for him it was love at first sight. But after that day she disappeared and he kept searching for her around the school campus but never found her.

Rising Action

Throughout the week, Kent and Max used their connections around their school to find this girl that Vince talks about , but they never did.

One day , a car shows up and a bunch of men with guns barge into Vince's apartment , trying to kill him, but he miraculously escapes and ran to his friends for help.

After the shooting, Vince clears his mind and try to think of reasons why would anyone kill him, then as he notices the clues and retrace his foot steps, he started to find some answers and soon he recieves a message from the girl at the cafe and she tells him about her background and it turns out that she's the only daughter of the greatest triad leader of Asia . She explains how Vince got misunderstood as her accomplice and now he's caught up in this gang rivalry.

Climax

The trio decides to infiltrate headquarters of the enemy to help the girl, and goes on an adventure.

Falling Action

They finally found who's behind the assasinations and got the information back to the girl.

Resolution

The antagonist dies, one of the main character dies and the hero gets the girl.

Typical ending :]

Kevin-Plot Summary

Exposition

The story starts out with John Bignos and Moe Ho fighting behind the school. They are both seniors in high school and are fighting over a girl Laura Jane. John and Moe have been best friends since seventh grade and have been fighting over Laura since eighth grade. They live in a small town and the nearest town is twenty miles away. John is a average size person and is Jewish. Moe is a big person and has a love for latkes.

Inciting Incident

One day in school Laura was asked out by Michael Brome and she said yes. John and Moe both get extremely jealous and decide that they need to get rid of Michael. They start to plot, knowing that Laura and Michael are going to the school carnival next week together.

Rising Action

Throughout the week, John and Moe starts to talk to Michael to get to know him. At the day of the carnival John had already devised the plan without letting Moe know what it is. John has prepared to kill Michael with his Wu Shu. Moe without knowing John's plan, saw John kill Michael. John then threatens Moe that if he goes to the police that he will never see the light of day again.

Climax

The next day, no one has discovered the murder of Michael yet. John was paranoid that Moe would go to the police so he decides to make him latkes with a sprinkle of poison inside it. He offers it to Moe and within the next twenty-four hours, Moe was in his bed dead.

Falling Action

A week later, John was arrested for the murder of Michael. The police had found a bag of coins with his name on it. John was executed for the murder.

Resolution

I don't really think that there is a resolution. I will probably think of one when I am writing the actual story.

Michael Ashtari- Freytag pyramid outline

Exposition: Nathan Escobar Jaco, nicknamed "Esco", is a 16 year old boy who lives in a rough neighborhood in Queensbridge, and also is the protagonist of the story. His parents, both Sunni Muslims, also raised Nathan to be a Muslim boy. Nathan's parents work full-time jobs, so they don't have the time to spend with their son. Furthermore, they don't have a huge impact on Nathan's life. The neighborhood that Nathan lives in consists mainly of athiests, gangsters and lots of wrongdoers. Therefore, Nathan does not have many friends that he can confide in, as all of his friends are gangsters and killers. His friends try to turn him towards the crimes of these streets, by trying to introduce him to drugs and murder. Throughout the story, he struggles between keeping his faith with his religion and God, and falling into the peer pressure of these gangs, trying to fit in and build his reputation. The antagonist of the story is himself and his struggle for stability.

Inciting Incident: Nathan meets Tyrone Williams at his school. He tells him that he knows a way to be cool, and to make lots of friends. He suggests joining a gang with him and his friends. Promising himself he'll only use it as a way to make friends and not to let it change him as a person, he accepts the request. Tyrone hands him an orange bandana that all the gangsters wear as a symbol of their gang. He soon meets a lot of these gangsters and becomes acquainted with them. They start out as using him as a cocaine dealer, and give him a fair portion of the profit. He makes sure to keep away from the drugs, but uses the money he receives from the deals to buy luxurious items. His parents don't notice him slowly purchasing these new accessories and items, as they're either at work, or at home sleeping from exhaustion. After awhile of being a part of this gang, the gang begins to give him bigger tasks to accomplish.

Rising Action: Tyrone, being the new leader of the gang since the recruitment of Nathan (who is now referred to as "Esco"), approaches Nathan one day at their meeting area atop a building. He tells him that the rival gang leader was seen with his crew down at the liquor store. He hands Nathan a loaded gun and tells him that he will receive a very high amount of money and respect from his gang if he gets rid of this man. If he fails to complete the task the task however, Tyrone deems him as a witness and promises that bad things will happen to him, since the police could get involved. Before Nathan can reply, Tyrone leaves him to be left alone on the cold and windy rooftop.

Climax: As Nathan slowly walks towards the liquor store, he has a flashback of his father telling him about keeping his faith in God, and to never sin. He tries to forget the memory, but the guilt of his disobedience and greed causes him to have a growing pain in his stomach. He approaches the liquor store and finds a good spot where he sees the rival gang leader. He is standing by himself outside of the liquor store on his cellphone, while his gang is inside buying alcohol. Nathan turns the safety off his gun and slowly raises the gun, but the pain in his stomach becomes so unbearable that he drops the gun. He realizes what he has become and that the broke his promise that he made when he had joined the gang. He picks up the gun and stores it in his pocket and begins to walk away. He pulls off his orange bandana, but unfortunately, the leader across the street spots the orange bandana and starts to shout something. In fear, Nathan runs as fast as he can, until he reaches the project apartment that he lives in. He safely enters and as usual, his parents are not there.

Falling Action: Nathan begins to hear his cell phone vibrate. He looks at the caller I.D. and sees it is Tyrone. He watches as Tyrone calls over and over again until he has 7 missed calls. Nathan begins to wonder about what he has become, and starts to cry. He wishes he could go back and end all that he had begun, but realizes that it is far too late to do anything. He wants to call his parents so that he can explain everything, but he fears his father will neglect him after hearing the things he has done and the ignorance he has showed to his religion. All of a sudden, he hears a van pull up on his block, 4 stories down. He glances out the window to see what it is. He spots about 6 or so orange headed figures who walk into his building. He sees the blurred face of Tyrone. He begins to panic and wonder what they wanted. A flashback reoccurs in his head of what Tyrone told him when he ordered him to kill the gang leader. Sweating and unsure of what to do, he reaches around the place as if he is trying to find something. His hand shaking, he feels something metal and heavy in his pocket. He pulls out the loaded gun and turns off the safety. Footsteps become louder out in the hall.

Resolution: Nathan, his hands shaking and his face wet with tears, holds the gun in his hands and looks at his bookshelf, where he briefly glances at an enormous book he remembers as the Qu'ran, or the holy book of Islam. He shamefully cocks back his pistol. The footsteps outside the hall get even closer. Nathan places the pistol right next to his head, so that the muzzle is facing his scalp. He begins to hear a loud knocking noise at his door along with the muffled sound of Tyrone's voice. Nathan looks up, as if he can see through his ceiling into the sky and into the clouds. He whispers to himself, "Hustler for death, no heaven for a gangster" and pulls the trigger. A loud crack is heard from the pistol, and Nathan falls over onto his carpet, motionless.

Denouement: Nathan kills himself, as he feels it is a sense of purification for himself. It is actually the opposite, as suicide is very critical and frowned upon in his religion. He ends his misery, and his inner conflict is, in some fashion, resolved. What happens to Tyrone and his gang, and his parents are unknown. The orange bandana in the story symbolizes the absence of Nathan's conscience. When he is wearing it, he is like any other criminal in his gang. In the end, as he removes his bandana, it symbolizes his reconnection with God, and his conscience comes back into his character.

Angela - Plot Summary

Exposition: Scene starts with a pair of boys (brothers) who live a poor life in a small city somewhere with their mother and father. Their family are going through bad times to the point where they end up bankrupt and the older brother has to quit school and go look for jobs. The older brother will be several years or so older than his younger brother. The story will start off with something terrible happening with their father running off to hide from the money collectors.

Inciting Incident: After realizing that people are probably going to go after his family, the brothers' dad decides to pack up in the middle of the night to run away to another country. Their mother eventually marries a rich man and leaves the brothers all by themselves. The brothers still have to deal with their constant money problems such as the collectors, finding a place to live, and food shortages.

Rising Action: One day, while the older brother was at work trying to help his younger brother finish school (and eventually college), a man comes to kidnap the smaller brother. So the older brother has to go search for him all around the city, with very few leads and lots of lies from the helpers of the man.

The older brother finds his little brother in the hands of the kidnapper. In order to save his brother, the older brother has to listen to whatever the kidnapper wants. His first assignment is to kill a man or else they'll murder his younger brother.

Climax: A long description about how the older brother struggles between killing the man and running away to save himself. Eventually he chooses and has to deal with the mental trauma he has to deal with in the end.

Falling Action: Eventually, the boy gets used to his job working under the kidnapper. He still does everything he can to save his little brother from getting involved with the situation at hand. He slowly tries to save up as much money as he can to send his brother away from the city.

Dénouement: After a year and few months of mental trauma, hardships, and keeping his little brother pure, the older brother manages to make enough money for a train ride out of the old city. He gives the money to his brother and asks him to leave and never return. The brothers share a brief farewell before the younger brother runs away before anyone could find him again. Although there is nothing stopping him from running away as well, the older brother continues to work for the kidnapper except with relief that he could at least protect his brother (which would be described in detail). He works a few months before dying from an assignment he was sent on.

Camille Obata: Plot Summary

Exposition: The story begins with a woman watching the sunrise on her deck. Soon after the sun peaks out from the water, her daughter comes out and sits on her lap. The fresh bruises are tender to the touch and the cuts are cleanly covered with band aids. The father of her child has manic depression and is abusive. He often spends days without coming home. He usually leaves after physically hurting her because he feels guilty and out of control. Her name is Annalise Scott.

Inciting Incident: One night he has one of his manic episodes and hits Annalise harder than he ever has. He is horrified and leaves in tears feeling ashamed.

Rising Action: The police come to the door and tell Annalise that her child's father has signed himself into a mental institution. She visits him and he gives her a letter through a nurse refusing to see her. She continues through her life watching her child grow, exchanging letters with the man who left them every month. Her brother, Christopher, becomes the father figure for her daughter and visits every week. Annalise and her daughter end up moving in with her brother and his family so Annalise can go back to college and complete business school.

Climax: The father is released from the hospital and struggles to reenter his daughters life as well as control his illness.

Falling Action: He moves in with an old friend and tries spending more time with his daughter. Christopher doesn't trust him and wont let him be with his niece without his sister there. One night as the girl's father is driving to meet Annalise and their daughter at a restaurant he gets into a car accident and is put in the hospital. While he is under pain medication he is not allowed to take the medicine for his illness and his symptoms for manic depression come back. He ends up having bleeding in his brain and dies.

Denoument: Annalise finishes business school and opens her own bakery where her and her sister-in-law work. Her daughter is surrounded by all the love she could ask for but a part of her will always be missing.

EXPOSITION - Kevin S <3 Ms Mason

Saba- Plot Summery

Exposition

John Smith
has always been different than other people. He never enjoyed the activities
other kids in his age enjoyed. He never seemed “normal”, and not only to his
parents, but also his teachers and the people around him. His parents never
understood his problems. To them John didn’t have any problem. He was
completely normal. Or they became to believe over the years and the failures
they faced solving his problem. His “friends” or “classmates” as he liked to
call them always thought John had that perfect life. But John’s friends never
knew anything about the big secret lying inside him. No one did. And if they
found out, they could never understand it.

Inciting
Incident

On the
anniversary of the day he understood his big secret, he met up with Rose and
Alice for the first time. His psychologist, Dr. Anderson
believed these three are some way connected. Rose was 17 years old, the same as
John, and Alice was 19 years old. That very moment when they all arrived, the three of them suddenly fainted and fell on the floor.

Rising
Action

After waking
up, the three of them understood why they are related to each other. In their
past life, John and Rose were sole mates, and Alice was their child. They were
music professors at Juilliard, and when they died Alice was only two years old.

Climax

While
talking and catching up with each other, Dr. Anderson
searched for any evidence to prove that they were lovers’ before. He comes
across an old case where two lovers who were music professors and had killed
each other because of depression. Dr. Anderson has to make sure these two stay
away from each other because they might kill each other again.

Falling Action

John and
Rose are struggling with the fact that they have to stay away from each other
so that they would not cause each other’s death again.

Resolution

John and
Rose decide to stay with each other and take care of their daughter. They
believe the only solution for them when they have to face depression again is
to remember how much they love their daughter.

Denouement

John and
Rose start a new life with old memories. They find out about other memories
neither of them knew about them before. But they still struggle with not
letting depression enter their lives. Their lives become normal again until
they become aware of an old cold case they have been involved in.

Devon: Plot Description

Exposition: A young girl is surrounded by everything she could ever want. Her name is Lucy Leigh. Although she has toys, clothes, and nannies, she can always get the attention of her parents. At this point, young Lucy is liveing the life of luxery.

Inciting Incident: Flash forwards 10 years and Lucy has grown up to be a pretty, poular, and bratty teenager and she loves every minute of it. Complete with lots of friends, Lucy is having her sweet sixteen party until just before the cutting of the cake a swat team of men in black suits come in and force the party over arresting Lucy.

Rising Action: Sitting in the back of a van handcuffed and scared she starts yelling at the men in black forcing them to let her go because she was the daughter of world wide banker Lance Leigh, but the men only laugh at her. Hours go by and she still doesn't know where she is. She can hear men yelling in a back room and a scream that she believes might be from her mother.

Climax: After hours sitting in a dark empty room, Lucy's mother comes in crying. She tells Lucy that her father who they thought was a good hearted banker actually turned out to be the ring leader of a group seling illegal weapons in the black market. Her father was killed when a deal went wrong and her gave up his life so his family can live.

Falling Action: Lucy and her mother return to their home to only find it burned down. All of their possesions were now gone and none of there friends and family want anything to do with them anymore. Forced from home, Lucy and her mother have to live in a trailer down by the river. With her mother working three jobs and still not being able to pay the bills, Lucy is forced to drop out of school and work at an old diner for passing by truckers.

Denouement: Flash forward 25 years and Lucy is still working at the diner. She is only 41 but she looks almost 60. Still stuck in the trailer she takes care of her mother dieing of cancer and her 4 cats who are her only friends. Looking out the window, Lucy see's a young girl that looked like she used to. Thinking back to her life before "the incident" she would have never believed how her life would end up.

Daisy Hsieh - Plot Summary

Exposition: This short story doesn't have an actual exposition. Wisteria (the main girl) is at home late at night with nothing to do, got on internet and met Midnight (later to be known as Cameron) through online chat.

Inciting Incident: Wisteria and Midnight starts to chat daily, on 12am sharp. Midnight shares about his life story with Wisteria day by day, and they have become close friends.

Rising Action: Midnight tells Wisteria his story with Amy, the reason he committed suicide. Wisteria can't deny the fact that Midnight is actually a ghost anymore, but they are still good friends.

Climax: Wisteria finds out that Midnight is not fully "dead" yet, she convince Midnight to go back to his body and come visit her again.

Fall Action: Midnight went back to his body, haven't visit in a long time. Wisteria misses Midnight a lot, and got a cold after Midnight left.

Resolution: Midnight finally comes and visit Wisteria at her school right before her final, and they start dating with Midnight known as Cameron (Midnight's real name).

Spencer Perry (P4)- Character summaries 1 & 2

Protagonist: Beau "Bo" Lefevre

Beau has no living relatives, besides those of his wife. She grew up in the same town where they live now in New Mexico, but Bo grew up in Boston where he later went to Harvard to study medicine. But after a few bad economical decisions, he settled in New Mexico as a biology teacher later to conceive his daughter and marry his wife. His brother in law has a bulldog type build and shaves his head just so he can get cue ball around the police station where he works, and intimidates and demeans Bo at ever chance he gets. But Bo is the type not to raise a hand, but to quietly take the sarcastic abuse, and swallow his pride. He isn't a young man, but he isn't old either. none the less, years of stress and worry have left him with wrinkles and a frown on his face. He's rare to smile, and he has male pattern balding. but nonetheless, he loves his family, and would do anything for them.

Antagonist: Leon Carter

In college Leon was known amongst his classmates as a little of a rebel. he got to harvard on account of his fast wit, and ability to read people better than anyone else Bo had ever met. He didn't have a mindset of "rules" either, but nonetheless he was logical and his actions usually didn't cross a boundary. not until he was expelled for making and selling small amounts of cocaine was he thought to be out of Bo's life forever. But soon enough, We see Leon in a new setting. He's a tall man, but he still fills a suit. he dresses as if he's been working for an upscale law firm, and talks just the same, calm and collected. He chooses his words carefully, and understands that knowledge is power. 

Spencer Perry (P4)- Freytag Model

Title: Undecided

Exposition:

 　A high school biology teacher in New Mexico has recently made a discovery that he has stage 2 lung cancer. He comes after a sudden collapse at a dinner party he hosted with his wife. His family dynamic consists of him, his wife who works from home as a accountant, and his daughter. His brother in law however works in the local police force that has taken a new initiative to crack down on a growing drug abuse problem in their district. His only choice to help for pay the unavoidable medical bills and procedures needed to save his own life and still provide for his family is to work on the side using the skills he already has as a cocaine manufacturer. 

Inciting Incident:

    The man is hosting a dinner party and serving drinks when suddenly he collapses on his patio. This leads to his awakening in a hospital bed, and his doctor recalling the tests done while he was under, resulting in his diagnosis of stage 2 lung cancer.

Rising Action:

The man has been an honest citizen all his life, but in his studies at harvard, he remembered how a few of the biology majors would make some very pure cocaine to help pay their tuitions. The man has an inner conflict, either to use his knowledge to ensure his recovery, or to do the honorable, law-abiding thing and face death while leaving his family with a huge financial burden. this is resolved however when he comes into contact with a former colleague from college, who has now gone on to become a drug lord facilitating the shipment of cocaine over the mexican border and into new mexico.

Climax:

   after a formal meeting with his former colleague, the teacher decides that his only option is to give in to temptation and cure his first batch, and in turn the drug lord supplies him. In his own high school chemistry lab, over spring break he makes the most pure cocaine ever seen on the market, and his payment is consequently doubled.

Falling Action:

   He gives the cocaine to the boss in return for his pay, but seeing as how talented the professor is, the drug lord is greedy for another batch, and soon. But since the professor already has enough payment to pay his bills for months, he declines. This spurs an argument, and the drug lord leaves angry, but not before lighting the school on fire, with the professor still inside.

Denouement:

   The professor uses his quick wit and knowledge of the chemical compounds to fight his way out of the school, only to seize on the school lawn, where he suffers a massive heart attack, and dies.