1. Exposition: A boy is walking in the woods when he spies a white house and a man working there. He is startled when the man notices him and runs away. The main characters, the boy (unnamed) and the Paper man are revealed. The setting is set during fall and progresses through winter, spring and summer.
Rising action: Later on the boy approaches the paper man and greets him. They begin to interact with each other. A relationship develops between the boy and man; however, one day he sees that the man has lost an arm. The boy breaks down and the next day comes towards the forest with a torch in his hand.
Climax: The boy sets the forest on fire and the Paper man and his house disappears along with it.
Falling action: The boy is last seen walking away into the forest
Denouément: The Paper man and his house is actually the boy’s soul. Although the place he lives in is beautiful, underneath the ideal setting lies an environment that’s hostile. His soul is defective and becomes even more damaged as the story progresses, the Paper man’s eyes and arm being a reflection of the damage. In order to reveal what his environment is really like, the boy burns the forest as an attempt to turn his ideal world into an ugly one. As an attempt to reveal the truth, he also loses himself in the process. He walks away from the burning forest leaving his future unknown.
Wendy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for being the first person to share your story. Your description reads like a kind of gothic fairy tale, and I think the story has the potential to be really cool and creepy. The only problem I foresee here is that the allegorical elements might be so strong that they overtake the elements of the story that typically draw your reader in, namely plot and character development. Also, you offer an interpretation in your denouement, but how clear is this going to be to the reader? How clear do you want it to be? Anyway, I think you have a great idea, and are off to a great start. Finally, for a great example of creepy allegory, see Edgar Allen Poe's "Mask of the Red Death."
-- Ms. Mason
I could not comprehend the plot until I saw the Dénouement. It sounds rather interesting though. I wonder how you're going to write this.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting story!:D
ReplyDeleteAre the seasons somehow connected to the boy's soul?
This is very interesting, but why is the old man called the paper man? And also, why did he loose an arm?
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