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THE SUN ALSO RISES
THE SYMBOLIC NAME
The Great Gatsby.
Fitzgerald
SYMBOL CONNECTED TO CHARACTER CHANGE
“Someday, and that day may never come, I will ask you for a favor in return.”
the absolute, inflexible, and hypocritical argument that chastises Hester in public and the much more fluid and true morality that Hester and her lover have actually lived in private.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
SYMBOL TECHNIQUE: REVERSING THE SYMBOL WEB
CREATING SYMBOLS—WRITING EXERCISE 6
This is part of a deeper fear that many writers have of too much planning.
For example, David Copperfield has more than sixty revelations.
many systems of the story body woven into a single plotline.
Self-Revelation, Need, and Desire
When looking at the framing step of the plot,
What will my hero learn at the end?
What does he know at the beginning?
• What is he wrong about at the beginning?
Self-Revelation
Robert has the self-revelation that love can’t be turned off, even when others are trying to stop it.
Sally Freeman has the self-revelation that love is more than just material trinkets of words and feelings.
“ghost”
first
haunts the hero in th...
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device that lets you extend the hero’s organic development backward,
internal opponent.
The hero’s desire drives him forward; his ghost holds him back.
A second kind of ghost,
hero begins free.
withholding
“There’s something going on here, and I’m going to figure out what it is.”
story world is present from the very beginning of the story.
you must create a unique and detailed world.
The inner person is damaged in some way.
A weakness is also moral if it causes someone else to get hurt.
Community Start
Running Start
Slow Start
Explore a world
Catch a criminal
Gain love
9. Bring justice and freedom
Save the world
ally is a key figure in the character web and one of the main ways by which you define your hero.
Consider giving the ally a desire line of his own.
PLOT TECHNIQUE: SUBPLOT
subplot having a very precise definition and function in a story: a subplot is used to compare how the hero and another character approach generally the same situation.
The subplot must affect the hero’s main plot,
two dovetail neatly, usually near the end.
The subplot character is usually not the ally.
Hero=Robert -> to love Sally F.
Ally= Johnny B. -> to be an established businessman. (?)
Subplot=Defector & informant. -> to be set free from Talisman’s slavery.
