Lecture 13: Character-Driven Action

Essay Question

Flip through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and make a list of as many significant events as you can. For our purposes, a significant event will be defined as  an event that changes the course of the story. (The Pevensie children get sent out of London to the Professor’s house, Lucy goes through the wardrobe into Narnia, Edmund meets the White Witch, Edmund betrays his siblings, etc.) Once you’ve made your list of events, go through and identify which of those events were things that happened to our main characters, and which events grew out of the characters’ choices.der’s experience in meaningful ways.

Lecture 14: World-Building

Essay Question

On a sheet of paper, make three columns named “The White Witch’s World,” “The Beavers’ World,” and “Aslan’s World.” Fill each column with the concrete, sensory words that C.S. Lewis uses to paint a picture of each of those three worlds.

Lecture 15: Action and Motion

Writing Exercise

Write a scene in which at least three layers of action are happening simultaneously. You may come up with your own actions, or you could use this one:

    • A character is trying to load items on a truck parked in a loading zone (layer 1)
    • when a rain/wind storm blows up and trash and debris start flying (layer 2).
    • Meanwhile, all the people on the sidewalk start running for shelter, making things quite difficult for our truck-loader (layer 3).
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