ME 8 - Conflict Menu
Entrée Assignment – Due Thursday, November 7th
In 100 – 200 words, put your protagonist in a
situation where they have a problem. To
develop a deeper, more meaningful problem, think of your protagonist’s values
(5-10 things that are most important to them) and try to use the conflict in
your story to create an a conflict between two of these values. Never
say what they want, SHOW IT with
concrete details. Include a simile, metaphor and personification and concrete details. Points will be
subtracted if your writing lacks these. Be sure to use the standard format.
Example:
Sam values
school, money to live, and sleep.
Sam sat on her
lumpy mattress, painfully aware of the melted mozzarella and pizza sauce smell
that floated off of her red work polo.
She shook herself out of a daze and went to take a shower so she could
wash off the dough crusted on her worn-out elbows and under her
fingernails. She glanced at the Math 1010
homework still in her backpack on the way out of her room and was reminded of how
close she was to failing three classes. Ten
minutes later, she toweled off, grabbed her wrinkled pajamas and sank onto her
pillow, refusing to let the tears of exhaustion come. Tuition was due on Monday, along with her
freshman psychology paper. She started
to reach for her scratched laptop, but her hand dropped along with the speck of
ambition she had left. As she focused on slowing her weary breathing,
she began to dream she was spreading Canadian bacon on the financial aid form.
