story questions

Questions to answer about your story:
1. What is the "goal" of the main character?
Goal is physical or external - what is he/she is physically trying to do?

Go fishing and keep his son safe

2. What is the "need" of the main character? What are his/her fatal internal flaws?
Need is internal - the internal deficiency in the character that needs to be corrected

He cant swim and is scared of the water

3. What is the difficult choice the character is having to make? What is the central dilemma?

He needs to get in the water to save his son but at the same time will be risking his own well being

4. Using the concept of Projection as described in the DVD, if you go inside the head of the character, what is the worst thing that can happen (face their worst fear)? What is the psychological obstacle?

Worst thing is he has to go into the water and possibly drown. he is psychological scared about getting in the water

5. What/who is the antagonist? How does the antagonist embody the inner conflict of the protagonist?

The antagonist is the water and the fathers fear of it is embodyed literally in the water

6. What is the relationship between the antagonist and the protagonist?

The protagonist get his food from the antagonist but the antagonist is risking his sons life

7. Describe the character arc - the need drives the story - can't get the goal because of inner conflict - character must overcome internal problem before they get the goal. You have to hit bottom before coming back up.

The father is afraid of water, and cannot swim, but his son is drowning and the only way to save him is to get into the water and try to save him, so he must overcome his inner conflict of being afraid of the water, and try his best to swim to save his son

8. What is the climax of your story?

the father after trying everything he can besides getting in the water decides the he must face his fear and put his life on the line to save his son

9. Describe the resolution? The resolution comes after the BIG choice has been made - it is the aftermath.

the father jumps into the water to save his son he get to his son and pushes/throws him twords the shore saving his life, father goes under and can be seen crawling out onto the shore

10. The theme is how they resolve the dilemma. What is the theme of your story? the theme is that family is important and that the father would face his worst fear and risk his life in order to save his sons life