![]() ![]() With these new found nose-abilities, the Elephant’s Child goes home to spank his family with his new trunk. Not even thinking, he then scoops up some mud and slaps it on his head to cool himself off. Then, he reaches down with his new elongated nose, pulls a large bundle of grass from the earth, and stuffs it in his mouth. With the help of a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake though, the Elephant’s Child is able resist the crocodile until he gives up and lets go.Īfter waiting 3 days for his nose to shrink back, the Elephant’s Child unconsciously swats at a fly on his back that would have been previously out of reach. The Elephant’s Child’s nose begins to stretch and stretch as the Crocodile pulls. The Crocodile answers by chomping down on and tugging the Elephant’s Child’s nose. Naively, the Elephant’s Child asks the Crocodile what crocodiles eat, not realizing he is talking to a crocodile. Out of desperation to know the answer, he leaves the safety of his family to pursue the truth. The Elephant’s Child keeps getting spanked by his relatives for his curiosity over what crocodiles eat. The Elephant’s Child, a child with ” ‘satiable” curiosity who lives in Africa is constantly getting in trouble with his family for asking too many questions. After which, I’ll use the Rashomon Effect to create an alternate storyline in a parallel Freytag Pyramid. This technique has been used on many well known books and movies– it’s called the Rashomon Effect.įor my example, I’m going to take the story The Elephant’s Child from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling and create an outline of the existing story with the Freytag pyramid. So, in order to shape a dialogue around this topic, I decided to dissect an existing story and re-tell it from a different character’s perspective. To write about the plot outline process, I had to carefully balance not giving away every plot-line element in my current book while explaining how I landed on it’s structure. ![]()
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