The Three Little Pigs Foreshadowing

The setting for The Three Little Pigs is set in a little town and all three of the little pig's houses, and the point view of this story is told in third person. I thought the atmosphere of this story to be comedic, and also a little sad, if you know the reason the wolf was knocking on the pigs house was just for a cup of sugar for his granny. Only taking in account that the original story everyone knows, it shows that you have to give everything your all, or you will be eaten, it's a dog eat- dog world.

b. Describe an incident that begins the action or suspense. What part of the ‘plot’ is this incident? Explain your answer.

The suspense first start when the wolf goes to the first pigs house and threatens to blow his house down if he doesn’t let him in, it makes you think why the wolf really wanted to get in the house in the first place. If you look at it this way why go through all the trouble of asking the pig to let him in the house when he wants to eat him, the pig is obviously not gonna let him in, so why even ask, unless you weren’t there to eat him in the first place. Besides that point the rising action is when each pig builds their houses, one of

straw, one of wood, and finally one of brick, the two pigs that took the easy route got their houses blown away, which shows you should work hard from the beginning.

c. Identify at least two complications. How do these complications lead to conflict? What part of the plot do these events represent? Explain your answer.

The first complication was when the wolf went knocking on the pigs door demanding to be let in, and wasn’t let in so he blew their houses down as a result. So the second problem would be the wolf blows ⅔ of the pigs houses down, but can’t blow the third one down as a result, and since all the pigs ran to their brothers house he didn’t get to eat one pig. But I would say these conflicts lead to the wolf trying to climb down the third pigs chimney and falling in their soup, resulting in him running away and never bothering the pigs again.

d. Identify how the complications were resolved. What part of the plot does this event represent? Explain your answer

These complications in this story is solved, when the wolf falls into their soup, which results in him running into the forest and never bothering the three little pigs again.

e. Describe the ending. What part of the plot does the ending represent? Explain you answer.

The wolf runs into the forest to never be heard from again, so the end represent a happy ending, because none of the pigs got eaten, and the wolf never bothers them again.

Sure 2 of the pigs houses got blown down, but at least they didn’t get ultimately eaten.

2. In a sentence or two, describe how all of the elements of plot work together to form the plot of the 'Three Little Pigs.'

All of the elements in this story work together to form the ultimate plot that if you take the easy way out you could be “eaten”. Working hard really does pay off, when those pigs decided to choose the easy way out they could’ve been eaten, the pig that worked hard had a sturdy house that saved him and all his brothers.

3. Write the basic plot of a book or story you have read. Describe the elements of plot and explain your

answer.

In the first book in the Michael Vey series; The Prisoner of cell 25, Michael Vey is a teenager diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, and not only that but was born with electrical powers. Vey goes to Meridian High School which is located in Idaho, with his best friend Ostin Liss, and Taylor Ridley. Taylor Ridley is a cheerleader and also Michaels crush, he accidentally shows his powers to Taylor when fighting off some of his bullies; Jack, Mitchell, and Wade. Taylor then reveals that she is just like him, just with electrical telepathy powers and mind reading abilities. Ostin, who is also aware of Michael's powers, researches the hospital where he and Taylor were born at, and he shows a newspaper to Michael printed when Michael was born. They find out some new information, and they found out a device malfunctioned and most of the babies born in the same hospital during that time were killed, except for 17 children. Dr. C. James Hatch was the person who created the machine, but kept the deaths from public eye, as it could cost the company billions of dollars in lawsuits. Taylor is then kidnapped by Hatch she soon discovers the dark side of Hatch, and he uses the teenagers' powers for his own benefit which has harmful consequences. Michael is the told his mother is kidnapped, Vey is then kidnapped, told to kill Wade(one of the 17 children), to prove his allegiance to Dr. Hatch, rightfully refuses, which causes his mother to be shocked instead. He is then sent to Cell 25, the torture cell for enemies of Dr. Hatch and his methods. A battle between the Electroclan and Dr. Hatch's loyalists occurs, Dr. Hatch ends up escaping from Elgen Academy in a helicopter with his loyalist. Michael and Taylor confess their feelings, Grace(one of the 17), downloaded all the Elgen computer files onto herself before they were deleted, because she is able to upload and download data from computers, kind of like a flash drive.

4. Write the basic plot of a movie you enjoyed. Describe the elements of plot and explain your answer.

Wade Wilson; dishonorably discharged special forces operative become romantically involved with prostitute Vanessa, and a year later she accepts his marriage proposal. Wilson is then diagnosed with terminal cancer, and leaves Vanessa without warning, this is when a mysterious recruiter approaches him and offers an experimental cure for his cancer. He is taken to Ajax and Angel Dust, who inject him with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes, which are subjected to him through torture methods by inducing stress that might trigger any mutations. It doesn’t work so Wilson grows aggravates, starts mocking Ajax for his real name being Francis, causing Ajax to leave Wilson in a hyperbaric chamber. This finally activates a superhuman healing ability that cures his cancer, but leaves him severely disfigured with burn-like scars over his entire body, he is then told that his disfigurement can be cured. Ajax subdues Wilson and leaves him for dead in the burning laboratory, but escapes. Wilson wants to seek out Vanessa, but is scared because of how disfigured he is, he then becomes a masked vigilante, named "Deadpool" . He moves into the home of an elderly blind woman named Al, eventually Ajax kidnaps Vanessa, Deadpool fights his way to Ajax. Deadpool kills Ajax, when he admits there was never a cure, and promises Vanessa to try and be more heroic and she finally reconciles with him, even though she was still very angry.

6. Why do you think that most literary works follow the basic elements of plot? Identify a literary work that you like that does NOT follow the basic formula for plot. Explain why you believe the creator or creators deviated from the basic formula. Was this strategy successful? Justify your answer with examples from the work.

Most literary works follow the basic guideline for a plot that is; Exposition which is when background information is given to the audience about the plot, next is the conflict or whatever goes wrong in the story (tension or interest in story, all stories have some kind of problem). Thirdly is the rising action which is when a series of related incidents occur building to the ultimate point of interest, the climax is next which is the turning point in the story (it can either be for better or for worse), the falling action is next and is when the conflict unravels, and finally last but not least the conclusion of the story (basically whatever happens in the end). Almost every story or movie follows this same plot, but their are some movie/books that have absolutely no conflict, which is honestly unrealistic, but their very hard to find.

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