Designing Principle
The journey is more important than the goal/destination.

Theme Line Techniques
The people that will help you when you need it most is your close friends and family.

Moral Choice
Give up and stay alive or risk death and keep going.

Moral Problem
He must decide if he wants to keep all the money or disperse it out.

Characters as Variations on a Theme
Main opponent: Trying to protect their resources. Will kill or imprison anybody that tries to take them.

Main character: See’s an opportunity to make a lot of money but knows he’s risking his life, his friends life and his fathers job.

Values in Conflict
The hero values family and friendship while the opponent values culture and tradition.

MORAL ARGUMENT

Hero’s Beliefs and Values
My hero believes family is first but also believes he needs to do something heroic to help his mother. He values friends and family but will go to far lengths for wealth.

Moral Weakness
He does things without thinking about the consequences.

Moral Need
He could have learned the life lessons without some of the dangerous decisions he makes, but does not regret them.

First Immoral Action
He puts his friend in a situation where he could die.

Desire
To capture diamonds from Russia and help his mother and father financially as well as his friends and himself.

Drive
My hero will do much of anything to reach the goal. He is desperate and once he makes the decision to do something he does not stop.

Immoral Actions 2
In what way, if any, are these actions immoral?
   Criticism : He gets criticized by his father for being naive and risky.
Justification : He tells his father what’s going on and gets advice.

Attack by Ally
His father is disappointed because John listened in on his private conversations and wen’t on this journey without telling his family.

Obsessive Drive
When adversity hits he could easily give up and return home but he keeps going instead. He does not fold under pressure.

Immoral Actions 3
While obsessed with winning, what immoral steps does your hero take?
Criticism : Puts his friends and allys in serious danger.
Justification : Realizes the end goal and what they learn from their journey will forever shape their values.

Battle
He has an advantage in his father and uses his resources to his advantage.

Final Action Against Opponent
The hero finesses the opponent and morally does not feel bad about it because he knows his use of what he gained from his opponent is going to a better place.

Moral Self-Revelation
He learns that family and friends are the most important thing to him and that the journey is just as important as the destination. He learns to trust the process.

Moral Decision
He gets advice and help from others to be extra sure of himself.

Thematic Revelation
When they all come together as one to complete the goal. I want the message to be that working together, honesty, trust and family and friendship are the most important aspects of life in most things that you do.