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PLOTS: HOW DO STORIES HAPPEN? - Coggle Diagram
PLOTS: HOW DO STORIES HAPPEN?
Plots and Conflicts
Conflict between Characters
Conflicts is between the characters in the story. Example: Harry Porter and Voldemort, the wicked sorcerer who killed Harry's parents and who is intent on doing further evil in the world.
Conflict within a Character
Hero or heroine struggles with overcoming struggles in their life and face them with all the strengths they have.
Conflict between a Character and Nature
It is based on survival themes (protagonist against the nature). Example: A boy learns to survive in the woods after an airplane crash.
Conflict between a Character and Society
Sometimes the society embraces some evil or prejudice against which the character must struggle. Sometimes, the struggle with society comes about not because society is particularly evil, but just because it is what it is.
Plot structures
Introduction
Provides the information necessary to understand the story.
Complication
The conflict is introduced and the character or characters begin their attempts to solve it.
Rising action
Characters work their way through the situation in which they find themselves and pursue their goal.
Climax
The point of maximum tension. The character tries to resolve the conflict and things seem to be most at stake.
Falling action (
denouement
)
Called as 'resolution'. Here the problem is solved and the conflict is resolved.
Recurring Plots
The Initiation Story
The young character is given some challenge to get through, having successfully met the challenge, she or he is recognized as being more mature or more worthy.
The character needs innocence for experience. It requires pain and struggles, embracing some things and giving up others.
The Journey
With every challenge they meet along the way, the characters grow in their awareness of other people, the circumstances that surround them.