Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Gone
Michael Grant
high concept narrative
narrative structure
showing character emotion
character reactions
maintaining tension
mystery
dialogue
group dynamics
sensory detail
physical description
evoking emotion
dread
foreboding
character archetypes
project
This lesson continues examining the structure of the first chapter of Gone. How does the author use the characters to put together the clues, create an emotional high point by focussing on their reactions, use both of these points to determine a course of action for our Heroes, and still keep mystery and tension so that you want to keep reading? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.