Story Maps

by Ian

Title: The Boy Who Flew

Characters: Daedalus and Icarus

Conflict: Daedalus and Icarus are taken prisoner on Crete, because Daedalus helped somone kill the Minotaur.

Setting: Ancient Greece

Event 1: Daedalus builds a maze for the Minotaur.
Event 2: Daedalus helps someone kill the Minotaur and he and his son, Icarus are taken prisoner.
Event 3: Daedalus has an inspiration to escape the island by making wings.
Event 4: Daedalus makes wings and they practice flying.
Event 5: They fly off the island but Icarus starts to show off and then dies.

Climax: Icarus thought he knew more than Daedalus and started to fly too high.
Resolution: Icarus's wings start to fall apart because the beeswax melted and he fell into the sea and drowned.


The Story of Ceres and Proserpina

Characters: Ceres (goddess of grain), Proserpina (maiden of spring), Pluto (king of the underworld)

Conflict: Pluto kidnaped Proserpina from her mother, Ceres, who is angry and sad.
Setting: Ancient Greece.

Event 1: Proserpina is picking flowers when kidnaped by Pluto.
Event 2: Ceres learns from Helios, the sun god, that Pluto kidnaped her.
Event 3: Ceres becomes a murse and tries to make a child a god.
Event 4: Ceres is so sad that everything starts dying.
Event 5: Jupiter orders Pluto to give Proserpina back.

Climax: Jupiter orders Pluto to give Proserpina back.
Resolution: Pluto gives Proserpina back, but makes her eat the pomegranate seeds so she has to come back to the underworld.


Title: Arachne

Characters: Arachne, a good weaver, and Athena, A powerful goddess.
Conflict: Arachne claims she can spin better than Athena, a powerful goddess. They have a weaving contest.
Setting: A poor dyer's cottage in ancient Greece.

Event 1: People come to see her work and she boasts.
Event 2: Arachne says she can weave better than Athena.
Event 3: Athena comes in disguise to get Arachne to apologize.
Event 4: Arachne doesn't, so they have a weaving contest.
Event 5: Athena finishes first and turns Arachne into a spider.

Climax: Arachne discovers that Athena is doing better.
Resolution: Athena finishes first and turns Arachne into a spider.

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