Question

Assessment Instructions

For this assessment you must demonstrate your understanding of alternate plot structures by writing your own version of one of the fairy tales provided.

Select one of the following fairy tales.
Select two of the techniques from this lesson.
Rewrite part or all of the fairy tale using the two techniques you have selected.
Include one paragraph in which you explain which techniques you have selected and how you put them to use in your re-write.

Answer 1

This is not clear. Select what fairy tale? What two techniques and from what lesson?

Answer 2

I chosed Rapunzel

Answer 3

you have to use 2 of these parallel plot
episodic plot
in medias res
flash forward
flashback
dream sequence

Answer 4

What do you need help with specifically? Ideas on how to use these, or what these different parallel plots are?

Answer 5

Ideas on how to use these

Answer 6

Hmm, well you could use the flash back to show Rapunzel in the forest imagining what the prince was doing without her. Such as, "Rapunzel sat in the dark forest. Though she had two children, she was completely alone. She began knitting a new pair of socks for her children, and humming an old familiar tune. She though back to how it all began." and then switch back and forth between the beginning and her waiting. A dream sequence could be the mother imagining what the rapunzel would taste like, or how the King imagines what Rapunzel looks like.

Answer 7

thanks i understand !

Answer 8

i want to do a flash forward tho can you give me an example ?

Answer 9

Flash forward would be the opposite of a flash back. In stead of thinking about what happened, you think about what will happen. Like from the witch's perspective. She knows what is going to happen before it happens. You cold have the first meeting between the father and the witch, and when the father takes the rapunzel back to his wife, you flash forward to the witch telling Rapunzel to let her hair down.

Answer 10

Wait, so it goes from the father taking the rapunzel back to his wife to the witch telling rapunzel to let her hair down ?

Answer 11

Well, you just have to tell the story like normal, but you flash forward to something later. It is like the story A Christmas Carol, where Ebenezer Scrooge is taken into the future by one of the ghosts.

Answer 12

I guess a better example would be to show the witch convincing the father to give Rapunzel to him. You could flash forward (the witch showing the father) what would happen if the mother didn't eat the rapunzel. "The witch then pulled an old mirror from her satchel and told the father to look in to it. He saw himself crying while his wife and unborn child died because he was unable to bring the rapunzel to her" This would be making the rapunzel magical, though.

Answer 13

Oh thanks !

Answer 14

Im a fan now !

Answer 15

Haha, no problem.