| Oct. 5th, 2008 @ 05:37 pm (no subject) |
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1. At the start of your book, what distinguishes your protagonist from other people? What central strength does he/she have? How does this strength get him/her into trouble?
oliver chooses to be entirely set apart from other people. physically, he stutters and walks with a cane. his strength lies in his ability to withstand a lot of abuse from people while understanding their motivations, and brushing it off. this gets him into trouble after his grandmother dies, and meghan grimes humiliates him, and he realizes he has no reason to keep going.
2. When the novel opens, what is s/he on the brink of doing? Why does he/she say she's going to do this? What does this action represent for the protagonist?
oliver is on the brink of having sex with meghan. he can't believe that she wants to have sex with him, because doing so would mean that he is "like everyone else."
3. What external situation will require the protagonist's participation throughout the course of the book? How does this connect with #2? Does it help or interfere? Can you build in a deadline for extra tension
1)the ghost; 2) his relationship with justina, because he sees it as a chance to have a normal human relationship. he feels that it is helping, but leaves him feeling much worse. justina tells him that she's going to hop a train to somewhere else by the end of october, but doesn't stay that long.
4. What is the protagonist's goal for the time the book covers? How does this connect with the external situation? Or does the external situation divert the protagonist from his/her goal? Why does the protagonist SAY he/she wants the goal? Is there a deeper motivation as yet unknown to him/her?
1) to see the ghost; 2) to find a reason to stay alive until the trials show in december. he loves trials, and has been exchanging messages with the singer, but his deeper motivation is to convince justina to stay and fly to new york with him for the show.
5. What problem (external conflict) does the external situation present? How can the protagonist eventually resolve that conflict?
almost every social interaction oliver has is awkward, but he gradually allows himself to be comfortable around justina. complicating the matter, justina is living on travis friend's couch. travis proves himself to be an idiot, solving oliver's problem of having to deal with him, but justina stays at oliver's apartment, making things much more awkward, which is never resolved.
6. List at least three obstacles in the way of his resolving this conflict. Make one an internal obstacle/conflict.
7. How will the protagonist grow because of confronting these obstacles?
8. What do you want to happen at the end of the book?
9. What will have to happen to the protagonist against his/her will to make your ending come about? |
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