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?In the future, when only pockets of civilization have survived a worldwide famine, one young nomad will have to overcome prejudices and allegiances if he is to learn the four lessons that his dead guardian tasked him with pursuing as his dying wish.?
Why does he have to learn 4 lessons? What does fulfilling tasks given to him by a dead man have to do with his living/surviving in the here and now? (The objective goal of the protagonist should face the future, not the past.) What's at stake? What does he stand to gain by learning, stand to lose byRead more
Why does he have to learn 4 lessons? What does fulfilling tasks given to him by a dead man have to do with his living/surviving in the here and now? (The objective goal of the protagonist should face the future, not the past.)
What’s at stake? What does he stand to gain by learning, stand to lose by not learning?
And who — not what — opposes him? “Prejudices and allegiances” are abstractions. They need faces; they should be embodied in an antagonist.
See lessLos Angeles, 1956. An ambitious prosecutor's investigation into the suspicious death of a wealthy businessman uncovers the murder of a young prostitute twenty years earlier. His suspects in both crimes: the mother of the girl he loves and his father, the Chief of the LAPD.
And I think it's always a good thing when the protagonist starts breaking rules, trespassing in other peoples' domain. And he must: the plot is a conspiracy against the protagonist. The rules, the "No trespassing" signs are designed to maintain the status quo, to stop him from achieving his objectivRead more
And I think it’s always a good thing when the protagonist starts breaking rules, trespassing in other peoples’ domain. And he must: the plot is a conspiracy against the protagonist. The rules, the “No trespassing” signs are designed to maintain the status quo, to stop him from achieving his objective goal.
See lessLos Angeles, 1956. An ambitious prosecutor's investigation into the suspicious death of a wealthy businessman uncovers the murder of a young prostitute twenty years earlier. His suspects in both crimes: the mother of the girl he loves and his father, the Chief of the LAPD.
And I think it's always a good thing when the protagonist starts breaking rules, trespassing in other peoples' domain. And he must: the plot is a conspiracy against the protagonist. The rules, the "No trespassing" signs are designed to maintain the status quo, to stop him from achieving his objectivRead more
And I think it’s always a good thing when the protagonist starts breaking rules, trespassing in other peoples’ domain. And he must: the plot is a conspiracy against the protagonist. The rules, the “No trespassing” signs are designed to maintain the status quo, to stop him from achieving his objective goal.
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