ACT 1
The Setup
A) What
is the story's setting?
1. What
epoch?
Modern Day Harajuku
2. What
class or kind of society are we in?
urban middle class society
3. What
pressures on the characters does each environment exert?
The environment pressures the characters to have either a urban or traditional mindset causing the characters to live different lives from each other which causes the the main conflict.
B)
Characters. Who are they and what does each represent?
1. What
are their names, characteristics, and relationships?
Yubi the antagonist of the story ends up stealing the main character Anko's lantern which becomes the main problem in the story. Yubi at first looks down on Anko because she comes from beyond the walls, which is the village, although she loved Chika's lantern because it reminds her of her own grandfather.
Anko the main character or protagonist of the story she represents the traditional style of the village that wraps around the border of the city. She carries the lantern which is traditional in style the last lantern that both her and grandmother made together before she died. She takes this with her as she ventures out to the city for the lantern festival a time when the two cultures come together.
2. Who
is most important and why?
Anko who is more traditional minded, less open minded to change, is the most important because she will have the most character development as she learns more about the city and urban life by chasing Yubi.
3. What
does each character represent in the work's design?
Yubi the secondary character represents urban life and the main obstacle for in the story for anko to get over
4. What
is the main character's agenda--what must he or she get, do, or accomplish?
(Consider
this for the story as a whole, then define agendas for each scene. Do they add
up?)
Anko main goal is to get to the lantern festival to meet up with friend of her grandmother by her grandmother's finial request.
5.
Through whose point of view do we mainly experience the story?
(The
POV character is the one whose experience we most share. POV can also move from
character to character, according to the storyteller's intentions about what
the audience should feel.)
We mainly experience the story thorough both Yubi's and Anko's point of view
C)
Conflict. What opposing forces are at work in the story?
1. What
minor problem does each main character face?
Anko faces problems in her new environment because she is not use to it
2. What
obstacles prevent them from carrying out their agendas?
Anko faces Yubi throughout the film as she tries to keep her from her goal of getting to the lantern festival Yubi is the embodiment of the city so as anko struggles with the environment the more she seems further away from Yubi.
3. The
main character's conflict is between herself and the city environment she is placed within.
(Be
careful here that you can name forces in opposition, not just an emotion or
tension in the main character.)
4. At
what point is exposition complete and the audience in possession of all
necessary setup information?
when the notice that anko doesn't seem ready to meet with this family friend in the city the moment before she goes through the gates.
ACT II
Complications
A) How
have the obstacles faced by the main character changed?
She seems able to counter-act the obstacles more as she learns more about her new environment
B) What
adaptations does he or she make while trying to solve each problem?
She starts to think more in terms of the city rather then thinking more traditional to solve a problem.
When coming to face each crisis she changes her way of thinking
C) What
new factors raise the stakes? (What
developments make the main problem harder to solve?)
The harder she tries to get to Yubi the more Yubi pushes back
They both lose track of the lantern and have to put faith in each other to get it back.
ACT III
Confrontation, Crisis, and Resolution
A) What
drives the situation toward the final crisis point?
Yubi is finial stopped in an back street but the lantern is destroyed because of all the running around.
B)
Where do opposing forces come into the final, decisive confrontation?
When Anko understands that the lantern is broken Yubi shows her grandfather's shop which is on the backstreet. The shop also has lanterns that look like her grandmothers which anko finial comes to the conclusion that Yubi was the person she was meant to meet both girls come togather to fix the lantern and go to the festival together.
C) How
is the apex of the problem resolved, and which of the opposing forces wins?
Anko wins in the chase although she wins what she feels is nothing.
D) Does
anyone learn and grow, even minimally, from this resolution, and if so, how?
Both characters in the story grow with the understanding that neither of them are so different from each other that the bridge between their cultures isn't so big that they can't cross it and that by blending their cultures together they can create something new.
