Copy this outline, and use only the bold section, then answer each question. Keep any responses for the first section you complete in class, and add the second part as homework.

To do In class

Designing Principle
Start by turning the designing principle of your story into a theme line. The theme line is your view about right and wrong action, in this story, stated in one sentence. As you look again at the designing principle, focus on its key actions and their moral effects.

Failure is the key to success. 

Theme Line Techniques
Look for any techniques, like symbols, that can condense your moral statement to one line or can encapsulate the unique structure you will give to your story.

A book hitting the unconscious pilot in the head waking him up.

Moral Choice

Fly the plane to the best of her ability or accept failure and attempt to get help.

Moral Problem

After reviewing your work on premise, state in one line the central moral problem your hero will confront throughout the story.

Does Kelly accept that she can’t fly the plane and seek other help fast or keep messing around and attempt to fly the plane?

Characters as Variations on a Theme
Starting with the hero and the main opponent, describe how each major character approaches the central moral problem of the story in a different way.

Main Character: has to confront her fear head on.

Opponent: Since the opponent is her internal fear, the opponent puts the main character in a crisis situation causing a larger problem. 

Values in Conflict
List the key values of each of the major characters, and explain how those values will come into conflict as each character tries to reach the goal.

Main Character: Kelly’s need to succeed causes her to panic in a situation she was not ready to be put in, how she reacts and follows up to the conflict determines her self identity. 

Opponent: Forces Kelly to do the right thing. 

MORAL ARGUMENT

For homework

Detail the moral argument you will make through the structure of the story, using the following sequence.

Hero’s Beliefs and Values
Restate your hero’s essential beliefs and values.

She believes that in order to do well in life you have succeed at everything you do. 

Moral Weakness
What is your hero’s main weakness when it comes to acting toward others?

Her weakness is that she is nervous that others will look at her as though she is stupid and doesn’t know what she’s doing.

Moral Need
What must your hero learn by the end of the story about the right way to act and live in the world?

My hero must learn that in order to succeed in life, you have to learn, in which you learn from your mistakes. 

First Immoral Action
Describe the first action your hero takes that hurts someone else in the story. Make sure it is an outgrowth of your hero’s great moral weakness.

Kelly is sitting in her seat on the flight waiting for take off. She is on her phone texting her potential boss letting him know she is taking off shortly and will arrive shortly. As she is so embedded in making sure everything goes smoothly, the kid behind moving around aggressively irks her and causes her to turn around and yell at him to quiet down, causing him to cry. This sets off a bad start to her flight. 

Desire
Restate your hero’s specific goal.

My hero’s goal is to get to her interview in San Diego for her dream internship that she’s nearly planned her whole life. 

Her unknown goal is that she needs to accept that she can’t be perfect at everything, and needs to accept that it is okay to fail.

Drive
List the actions your hero will take to win that goal.

Main Character :

-She look through and attempt to read a flying manual that she finds

-She asks the air traffic control tower for help

-She has a mental break down and realizes that she cannot do this.

Immoral Actions 2
In what way, if any, are these actions immoral?
Criticism : For any immoral action, describe the criticism, if any, that the hero receives.
Justification : How does the hero justify each immoral action?

She should have radioed for help immediately or tried to wake the pilot up instead of attempting to fly the plane without any help or instruction being that a lot more than her life was at risk. 

Attack by Ally
Explain in detail the main moral attack that the ally makes against the hero. Again, write down how the hero justifies himself.

At first, the ally doesn’t feel like she is going to find anything but in the end because the main character paid the ally so they had to do their work.

Obsessive Drive
Describe when and how your hero becomes obsessed with winning. Put another way, is there a moment when your hero decides to do almost anything to win?

Kelly feels as though she can fly the plane single handedly. She has never really failed before and has a lot of confidence, that being said there is a moment where she is attempting to mess around with buttons and getting too confident until she accidentally sets off an alarm and gets a reality check. 

Immoral Actions 3
While obsessed with winning, what immoral steps does your hero take?
Criticism : Describe the criticism, if any, that the hero faces for these actions.
Justification : Explain how the hero justifies his methods.

She looks through manuals in order to attempt to fly the plane, which is slightly immoral, but if she didn’t she wouldn’t have attempted to help anyone at all, so it was a step in the right direction. 

Battle
During the final battle, how do you express which values, the hero’s or the opponent’s, are superior in this fight?

In this fight I believe the opponents values are more superior being that the opponent is really a mentor guiding the hero to success.  

Final Action Against Opponent
Does your hero take a final action against the opponent, whether moral or immoral, before or during the battle?

My hero’s final action against the opponent is her mental breakdown. When she realizes that she is not capable of flying this plane she has an outburst of rage and frustration. She finds it difficult to know that she cannot successfully so what she needs to do. Her outburst causes her to throw a book in which oddly enough wakes up a co-pilot who is then able to help land the plane safely. 

Moral Self-Revelation
What, if anything, does your hero learn morally at the end of the story? Be sure that this insight is about how to act properly toward others.

At the end of the story, Kelly learns that your actions effect more than just yourself and sometimes you need to consider everyones wellbeing and put your fear aside for the greater good. Sometimes in order to save everyone on the plane, the best solution is to seek help in others around you, whether that is through the radio and or finding a way to wake someone else up to take over the task you are not capable of completing on your own. 

Moral Decision
Does the hero make a decision between two courses of action near the end of the story?

Her mental breakdown is when she has a realization that she cannot do everything in which causes her to get help in a weird way. A “sign” of her doing the right thing.  Accepting failure. 

Thematic Revelation
Can you think of a story event in which you express your vision of how human beings should act in some other way than through the self-revelation of your hero?

No, I think when she has a mental break down in mid crisis and wakes up the pilot by accident she realizes that her failure caused the pilot to wake up and save her and everyone lives. Just as humans should understand that it is ok to no succeed, in fact one is more likely to thrive through failure, trial and error.