LA: Plot Map for Stories

Plot map for Stories:

      This week, we spent time learning and understand how to plot a story on a plot map. There are many parts that make up a complete story on this map. To start off, you mention the protagonist, which would be the main character and the antagonist, the person against the protagonist. Followed by this, you include the setting, time and place. After this, one of the important parts would be to state the conflicts, internal and external. To start with the story, rising action is where the basic information is mentioned. As you move on to rising action this is where you start to get a clear idea of what direction the story heading. The rising action 3 is where the story comes alive and the tension builds up. The conflict is slowly growing and the reader wants to know what happens next in the story. At the peak of the plot mountain lies the climax, where the conflict is at its highest point and is most intense. At this point, the tension is about to be released. Following this is the falling action 1. After the climax is addressed, the falling action helps ease down the tightness in the story. The falling action 2 helps to still resolve the conflict but also helps move the story along and sets the tone of a resolved. The resolution is where the story comes to an end or is left on a cliffhanger. At the end of the story, you will realize two important elements that you learn throughout the story. These two elements would consist of the theme and the symbol in the story.  A theme is the main lesson that you take away and learn from the story. For example, a theme to a story might be "love is wanted but also dreaded". Whereas, a symbol in a story would be something that you can physically touch. An example would be a rose which has thorns to show that love is sweet but at the same time, it can hurt. All in all, I understood it  this process definitely needed some practice.