High-concept storytelling in Gone 3: Ramping up
About
Standards
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Gone
Michael Grant
high concept narrative
controlling pace
- Purpose
- Expand scale to reveal more of a high-concept world and increase tension.
- Description
- This lesson continues examining the structure of the first chapter of Gone. How does the author increase the scale of the story's event by introducing a crowd reaction, and use this introduction to ramp up the tension? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.