Story Analysis 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?

Snotball the main character is searching for the golden fire hydrant as the characters goal throughout the whole piece.

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

The need of the character is to get the golden fire hydrant within the few minutes that Snotball’s brother sets for the character.

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

The central dilemma for the character is to get the thing she wants which is the golden fire hydrant within the time that the character is given. The choice that is being made is to either go for the adventure or to turn back and not take on the adventure.

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?

The character Snotball's worst fear besides losing her family is the idea that the character has to face the fear of being in the dark and being scared of the dark.

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

The story focuses on one character.

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

As I said there is only one character that the character focuses.

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 need that drives the story is the need to get the golden fire hydrant. In the end the goal is achieve but in the end the character realizes that they didn’t get what they wanted in the end because it was the wrong toy, instead of the chewy one the character got the sweaky one.

8. What is the climax of your story?

The climax of the story is when they get the toy they think they want and suddenly the ground shacks beneath them and Snotball turns around and sees this giant hairball coming at the character and before the character can run the hair ball runs over the character taking Snotball with it.

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

The resolution that ends is the character is then taken for a ride on the giant hair ball and at the end is thrown out of the temple with a little sound going off with the saying something. Snotball goes flying throw the air and lands in the car. The car then heads off in the end and we hear the main character say that they wanted the chewy one instead and so the resolution is that character got the toy in the end but it wasn’t the one they originally wanted.

10. The theme is how they resolve the dilemma. What is the theme of your story?
The theme of the story is going to get the golden fire hydrant.