Short Story Outline

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Short Story Outline LIST AND DESCRIBE YOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS

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Mr. Yohan Blois; Japanese man who work as a girl cloth’s manager at a popular plaza. He is very hard-working man and very optimistic. He yields in everything even if it isn’t his duty. He works so hard but the salary but he still got reprimanded by his boss as a result he is very tired of his work. He really dedicated himself as he wants to make as much money as he can to make his family live comfortably. He is the head of family and he is the only one who works so he plays the most important role in his family. Mrs. Mishima Airi ; she is a maid her whole life until her husband dies. She is a goodlooking woman, although she has a face without anything special. After her husband’s death she started working as an employee in his company to earn a living, but also to seek out the truth behind her husband’s death.

CHARACTERIZATION What techniques will you use to reveal the qualities of your characters? How will you use the following? Action/Reaction From describing the actions and reactions when the characters get into trouble Dialogue In the story, there are a lot of conflicts between characters and interaction, dialogues would emphasize the characters at that moment Physical Description Describing the clothing, facial expression of characters Objects/Possessions Special items or memorable objects to show special relationship between the characters Thoughts When the characters are getting in trouble and thinking of a way to solve, or when they are in deep thought on their life. Idiosyncrasies Showing certain behaviors or actions when the character is undergoing certain situations Background Information Trying to show the deep and loving relationship of the couple before her husband’s death to show how close and how deep their love is for each other

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PLOT 1. Exposition; One man already death and he is in the train on his way to the heaven. And suddenly he realized that he had left his family behind without saying goodbye so he jumps out of the train as he wants to go back to the earth.

2. Conflict; When he goes back to the earth, he finds out that someone blame him that he is the one who fraud the company and as a result he commits suicide. This make his family got a blame on this and didn’t live happily. But this is not true, so he need to fix this.

3. Rising Action; He find the solutions to those problems and prove his purity.

4. Climax; His time in the earth is end, so he need to go back to heaven.

5. Falling Action; His family is living happily but they think something is missing.

6. Resolution; His decision whether he want them to remember that it’s him or he want them to forgot all about it.

MOOD & TONE 1. What kind of mood do you want to create in your reader? - Loving, caring, emotional 2. How will you achieve this? What tone will you use? - Applying certain interactions between characters (lyrical, optimistic) 3. What other literary devices (imagery, setting, personification, etc.) can you use to influence mood? - imagery: to show the reader the love of the couple by comparing it to other objects to emphasize how much it is

Oil 1105 TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENTS Many stories contain “transformative moments”—events that make a character think in a new way, or somehow changes them for the rest of their lives. It is not absolutely necessary for your story to have one, but what kind of transformative moments might your story contain? -When the man came back from his death to solve his problems and regrets when he was alive.