My Story - Outline

Characters are: Bob, the robot ducks, Bob's friends; Patrick, Donald, Sylvia, mountaineering crew; Joe, Chris, Vicky

Setting is on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean that has a magnificent tall mountain in the middle. The mountain is famous for it's 500 year old sword cemented in a stone on it's highest peak. Many great climbers and strong folk have tried to pull the sword out, nobody has succeeded.

Genre: Suspense and 'realistic fiction'

Main Character / Protagonist: Bob, he is one of the best climbers in the world, he is tough and determined, he is currently in search of his friends, who mysteriously disappeared - he is now almost given up hope. He pulls out the sword because his favourite childhood story was the king Arthur tale and wanted to look cool by taking a picture of him pulling out the sword. He grows as faces many of his fears.

Plot: Bob travels to the island and climbs the mountain. He pulls out the sword and out pops 3 robot ducks, they capture him. Bob now has to complete three challenges to get away. First he is given a bow and arrow that he needs to use to shoot a real duck, then cook it, then feed it to the robots. Next, he has to carve a duck out of a big cube of ice, in just one minute. He completes his second task as well. Then finally, he has to climb up a slippery pole, take the 3 beautiful amulets displayed on top of the pole, bring those down and place it around the necks of the robot ducks. These instantly turn into his lost friends, he thought were dead.

Antagonist: My "antagonist(s)" are really the robot ducks. They captured Bob's friends, so they can take their power and make them into robot ducks and live in the stone. They can also make people do things for them almost like turning them into slaves. Their characteristics are mean, cruel and horrible, they can also be evil, destructive and hateful.

Motivation: My protagonist's motivation is to climb every tall mountain in the world and be the greatest mountaineer. He thought (rather selfishly) that as he is the greatest climber maybe he could pull the sword out, that was the other reason why he decided to climb this mountain.

Conflicts: are the 3 tasks that Bob has to do.

My Example of a story: The Sound of Thunder;

'Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus Rex.

"It," whispered Eckels. "It......

"Sh!"It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.'


- This story's style is similar to my story and style as it has a descriptive rising action and then a longer climax than other usual stories, it is mixed with resolution, the climax happens when the robots jump out of the stone and capture Bob. The resolution happens when the robots turn into his friends.