Outline for My Story: 10/10

I. Exposition

Thesis: (To be determined)

a. Characters: The main character in my story are myself and my parents.

b. Setting: The first semester of my Freshman year of High school.

c. Situation: My parents told me that they would be getting a divorce.

d. Background: My parents weren’t getting along the last couple years of their marriage, then finally decided to pull the plug my Freshman year of High school; which was the turning point of my life.

II. Inciting Incident

a. Event that caused initial conflict/ set the story in motion: My parents pulling the plug on the marriage, leaving me to deal with he consequences.

III. Rising Action

a. 1-3 events that show main conflict and build towards the main event

1. I started to not care about school during my parents divorce, causing me to fail one class, and highly consider dropping out of school.

2. I started to rebel and not talk to anyone besides my friends and my therapist at the time, I didn’t feel comfortable talking to my parents.

3. (To be determined)

IV. Climax

a. The main life/ perspective changing event of your story, “point of no return”: When I moved in with my father, because during the whole divorce, I lived with my mother, and my father was 4 hours away in the mountains. While moving in with my father, he made me realize that I can succeed in school, and that I have to learn how to move on.

V. Falling Action

a. 1-3 events that decreased conflict

1. I switched schools after my freshman year

2. Throughout the rest of my high school career I got nothing below a C, I would mainly finish the semesters with all A’s and one or two B’s

3. Enrolling in college, something I never thought I would do my freshamn year of high school.

VI. Resolution

a. Ending or conclusion to story: Never give up on your self

b. I feel like divorce was the best option for my parents looking back. I’d rather see my parents happy rather then seeing them fight every day of the week. Things could have been a lot worse.

VII. Argument

a. Time heals all wounds.

b. Divorce doesn’t harm children- the way parents argue and fight around the child hurts the children in the end.

c. Someone could have things way worse then you.

VIII. Main Conflict

a. Man vs. Self