Name: The elements of a story | Reading | Khan Academy
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T17:50:14.000Z
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- [Instructor] Hello readers, I'm going to draw you

a map right now, and it's gonna look like

What, your saying, how do you map a story?

These are great questions, and to answer them,

I'll say this, today we're going to talk about

Good readers know what these patterns are,

and can talk about them using the right terms.

And this helps everyone be on the same page,

I'm about to drop a lot of vocabulary on you,

where we learn about the characters and the setting.

Then, we introduce a conflict, or a big problem.

As the characters begin to interact with the conflict

we hit the most exciting part of the story, the climax.

After the climax, after this most exciting

part of the story, we enter falling action.

The climax will happen much closer to the end of the story

and the characters prepare for the last phase

Now, look, that was a lot of information all at once.

In order to make sense of it, let's apply all of those terms

Now, our go-to has been the Three Little Pigs,

it needs to be freshened up a little bit,

really working its franchise potential, you know?

So let's go through the elements of story

See, it's Three Little Pigs, but it's in space.

So I'm gonna put a little story map here in the corner.

Pigs have expanded to every corner of the galaxy.

Three brave little pigs decide to strike out on their own,

exploring a new, exciting region of space.

And one builds a spaceship out of flexible hyper alloy

Along comes the notorious space pirate, Captain Wolf.

He's big, he's bad, he wants to blow up the spaceships

He begins hunting down the pig ships, one at a time.

And now we enter our rising action phase.

And straw pig escapes in the little escape pod

The two pigs escape again, this time to the brick house.

I mean, the flexible hyper alloy spaceship,

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