Storyline CP1 (Late) Setup and Elements

Your Name: Danny Hong

Story Name: If You Give A Pig A Pancake

Author: Laura Numeroff

Story Setting Information: The House and around the house

Audience
Who is your main target audience? (e.g. 5-year old boys, children 10-12, teenage boys who like adventure) The main target audience for this book is for children 8 and below.

Theme
What moral does your story teach in the end (e.g. friendship, sharing, family, good habits, never lie, listen to your parents, eat your vegetables)
-This particular story doesn't have a specific moral, but teaches that if you give an animal something, it's also going to want something with it.

Geography
City and country location (e.g. Paris, France)
-No particular country, but published in America.

Setting
The place in the area (e.g. on a farm, in the city, on a boat in the ocean, in outer space, at a basketball game)
-At the house, and around the house.

Drive
Character driven or plot driven?
(e.g. does the story follow the character(s) or the plot)
-The story follows the pig and the girl. (Only characters in the book)

The following are key elements in a story:

Introduction (exposition)
Gives brief background of the main characters, setting, and plot; answers the questions where, when, and who

Conflict
-There is no particular conflict in this story except that if you give a pig a pancake, it will want something else with it.

Rising Action
-The pig keeps on wanting more, ending back with wanting more pancakes.

Climax
-No resolution

Falling Action (resolution)
-No falling action except giving the pig more pancakes. (?)

Conclusion
The moral of the story and closing thought

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Twist (you can choose where the twist will go in your time line)
An unexpected turn in events