Week 9 Story Planning

Reading Notes

In the story I read this week, The Myths and Legends of the Sioux, a rabbit tricks some grouse into a bag to take to his grandmother. Furthermore, the Sioux stories always possessed an interaction between an animal and a human. I would like to include this into my story. Additionally, I read the past week Beowulf where Grendel, the villain, kills the villagers. A major theme I want to play off of is the trickery and the villain preying on villagers.

My Story/Plot

In my story, I would to have a group of bears be the villains in my story. They will have the power to transform their bodies into anyone they see. Therefore, they will trick a group of villagers into following them back into the lair where they reside. There, they will kidnap the villagers and hold them hostage to be fattened to be feasted on. Since they do not want to cause any panic in the town, the bears will transform themselves into the villagers and go about the normal days of the cities. One of the bears will get greedy though, and compromise all of the bears hiding in the village. There will be a falling out with all of the villagers and the bears. I have not yet decided which perspective I would like to write in. I actually plan on making the bears the main characters and from their perspective.

Characters

 Blackfoot: This will be the main bear of the group. He will be very strong and wise. He will be the one who designs the entire process of kidnapping and posing as the villagers.

Nokosi: This will be the youngest bear of the group of three. She is extremely intelligent and respects Blackfoot significantly. She will be the one who resolves the conflict between the bears and the villagers: either by fighting or by compromise.

Hopi: He will be the strongest bear of the group. He thinks he should be in charge despite his lack of intelligence. He will be the one who will try and take more villagers than there are bears. This will cause the town to figure everything out and will cause the main conflict.

Awan: The leader of the village. He will be in charge of creating a plan to defeat the bears that are tormenting the village.

The Kidnapped Villagers: These people will play small roles for they will only be included when they are tricked into going into the lair. There will also be random villagers in the end of the story during the conflict. 

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Myths andLegends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916).