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Lesson 11
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Susan A. Willard’s Living Metaphors
What I learned doing this assignment is when I learn more about different ways of challenging old ways, then I see old ways challenges coming to mind from all types of inspiration. I wonder if there is such as thing as too many old ways challenges.
Should Work, But Don’t Work and Living Metaphors (Old Ways Challenges and Method of Play out in a Story)
1. 5 Should Work, But Don’t Work (Walter looking for his friend Oscar)
· Walter starts by checking his phone for missed calls, texts, or voicemails from his friend Oscar.
· Walter asks friends and calls neighbors to inquire about Oscar.
· Walter tells his friend Jack that Oscar will show up, he has been late before, and he is an independent and resourceful person. No need to worry about Oscar, we will see him soon.
· Walter checks with the clinic where Oscar had an appointment at 8 AM.
· Walter asks the professional doctor at the clinic about Oscar.
· Walter asks other homeless people if they have seen Oscar or know where he is.
· Walter even asks the janitor, who is routinely cleaning at the clinic and café, if he knows anything about Oscar’s whereabouts.
(Walter has always respected Oscar as an independent, resourceful person, because both men are set in their ways and respect each other’s privacy. Oscar has always shown up, sometimes a little late. But today, Oscar didn’t show up for a free breakfast and card game, he missed his appointment that the clinic eventually removed, and no one has seen or heard from Oscar. Walter has no idea what to do next. He is beginning to worry about Oscar’s welfare.)
2. Living Metaphors
· TV News Stories – seen in some scenes –
Live News Stories playing in the background of some story scenes challenge Walter’s belief of real-life possibilities that could be happening to his friends or eventually to himself.
Throughout the entire story, occasionally a TV is in the background. The news is played several times, and possibly follow-up stories explaining situations around the retirement community, the small town, and the big city, both nearby.
Details of the news catches everyone’s attention, who often bring it up for discussion or question the details. In the beginning, Walter pushes away saying, “The news is inflated to get ratings, sometimes they just make up stories, and they just want to keep you glued to their station – what do they know? However, as the day goes on, Walter halts and listens, until he can’t push the news away anymore. What will Walter do about the reoccurring news he hears?
What will he do when he can’t ignore the uncertain reality seemingly coming true?
· Walter’s grandson Landon’s feet prosthetics –
Landon’s feet prosthetics represent a challenge to Walter’s belief that he should be able to solve all the problems he faces by himself, without help.
Walter has always taught his son and grandson to be an independent, resourceful person, then they will always be able to solve their own problems in life and won’t need anyone’s help to get along their life’s journey. Until his grandson, Landon, because of birth defects on both feet, requires amputations and prosthetics. Landon has come to spend the summer with his grandfather, as he remembers doing every year since his mom died.
This summer Grandpa wasn’t at home when they arrived. They caught up with him at The Sit and Sip café waiting for his friend Oscar. Ethan, Landon’s dad explains; Landon has new Prosthetics that require help in getting used to using them, because they are extremely hard to fit. Landon’s Dad leaves right away for a business trip, leaving Landon and Walter in the café. Walter doesn’t give Landon, or the prosthetics, any additional thought, until Landon has a problem with his prosthetics. Walter is struck with the reality that he knows nothing about prosthetics or what to do. Walter himself needs help. He is trying to find Oscar, and now he needs to help Landon. What will he do?
· The Unlocked Door – “No Entry without Permission” –
The Unlocked Door labeled “No Entry without Permission” represents a challenge to Walter’s strict adherence to the rules.
Walter and Landon are in the clinic waiting room, waiting for Oscar. Walter has pursued all the activities and methods he can think of for finding Oscar. Landon is worried about his grandpa who has never acted this way before.
Walter asks about Oscar with a working janitor nearby. The janitor familiar with Walter and his breakfast card club friends, has not seen Oscar, but suggests that maybe Oscar needed a test or other observation, and points to the back room of the clinic. The door is behind the desk and labeled, “No Entry without Permission” and is stuck open with a big object on the floor.
After the janitor leaves, Walter and Landon discuss the door, the opening, and the possibility of checking for Oscar behind the door in the clinic testing rooms. Maybe Oscar is getting an Xray, MRI or CT scan. He’s taught Landon to always obey the rules. What will Walter do? Obey the sign on the door or pursue another method for finding Oscar?
· The Room – “Monitoring Center” –
The Room labeled as “Monitoring Center” represents Walters a challenge to his perspective of the retirement village safety that he feels about his retirement home, community, and the places he frequents.
Walter and Landon enter a room labeled “Monitoring Center”. Overwhelmed by the walls filled with video monitors all running live feeds of real-time surveillance of places and people. Once recovered from the shock of the visions, Landon asks, “Grandpa, is your home safe? Are we safe?” Walter is challenged to review his views of the safety of his home, community, the café, and everything in his current world.
· The Dead Body –
The Dead Body represents a challenge to Walter’s reality of a safe and enjoyable life at the retirement village, (or anywhere?)
Walter, and Landon, behind the scenes, witness a family saying their last goodbyes to their daughter who has died. From the conversation, it sounds as if the adult girl died suddenly in her doctor’s care. No one had any idea she was going to die. The family pushes back for answers, but the answers make no sense. After the family and attending medical personnel leave, Walter, nor Landon, are quite sure of what to do. Why did the girl die? Why did she die in this place? What did she die of? What is really going on? Now Walter has more questions than answers. What can he do next?
· The Cracker Package –
The Cracker Package and Landon’s idea represents a challenge to Walter’s self-sufficiency and adherence to the certain reality of what he has done before.
Walter and Landon are in a bind. They must escape the place they are in, and there appears now way out. Earlier in the journey, Landon fumbled a cracker package, which dropped on the floor without their knowing. A person came into the area where Walter and Landon were hiding. Not seeing anything, the person turned to leave, only to step on Landon’s cracker package making a load “pop” then a crunch as the cracker pieces exploded under the man’s foot. They were caught. Now they are hiding again, but Landon has an idea of how to use another cracker package so that they can get away. Walter is opposed to the idea. It’s dangerous. It’s reckless. It will never work. They saw what happened last time. What will Walter and Landon do? Will they get away?
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Bob Rowen’s Living Metaphors
What I learned doing this assignment is a way to further flush out elements of my story.
Brainstorm at least five of each of today’s challenges that you can put in your screenplay. With each, tell us the Old Way and the Challenge, and how you think it might play out in your story.
Five Ways That Should Work, But Don’t Challenges
1. Wade believes he should be able to teach historical truth but each time he does he often gets blowback from Franks. Wade not only puts himself at risk of losing his job, he also puts the principal on the chopping block because the principal supports Wade’s teaching.
2. Wade skirts the direct teaching of current affairs for political reasons in order to avoid having problems with Franks; Wade winds up having problems with the Progressive Students instead.
3. Wade carefully teaches about how fragile democracy is without mentioning the current Administration by addressing what the Founding Fathers had in mind and why. Students are unhappy with Wade because they feel he’s either attempting to indoctrinate them (Young Republicans Club) or intentionally avoiding the current political scene that should be part of the curriculum (Progressive Students Club).
4. Wade creates a classroom library to support his curriculum because the school board has banned certain books from the school’s library that are key to Wade’s curriculum. Franks responds by forcing Wade to remove those books from his classroom. Not to be deterred, Wade establishes a partnership with the city and county librarians for the books he can’t have at school, which infuriates Franks and the conservative elements of the community he represents.
5. Wade strives to provide a balanced approach during his teaching of controversial subjects, but he’s attacked from both the political left and right. He concludes no matter what he does in the classroom, it’s going to be considered wrong in somebody’s eyes.
6. Wade presents a unit of study on the Equal Rights Amendment believing it would be acceptable to everyone. Although Wade’s effort was widely embraced by the Progressive Students and their parents, there was a violent reaction led by Franks to Wade’s lesson plan.
Five Living Metaphor Challenges
1. Since Wade is not at liberty to provide direct current affairs instruction in his civics classes, he assigns what he calls “current affairs write-ups” to his students who then orally present and debate their “write-ups” in class.
2. Wade invites guest speakers into his classroom. Controversial topics are oftentimes covered. Franks is opposed to the practice of Wade deciding who he uses as guest speakers. Franks demands that guest speaker requests be submitted to the principal who must in turn get approval from Franks. Wade declares it’s not the job of the school board to screen the facts of history and allow only those to be used in the curriculum that fit the school board’s world view.
3. One guest speaker was the Labor Commissioner who presented his role of enforcing labor law. He wound up with seven violations of the code by the business community. Complaints concerning the problems Wade’s instruction was causing were made to Franks who told the principal something needed to be done to put a stop to Wade’s approach.
4. Another guest speaker was a holocaust survivor which was a huge problem for two prominent community members who are holocaust deniers, one of whom is Ken Franks, the president of the school board.
5. Wade meets Kurt Reimann during his school’s open house. Kurt is a 98-year-old German immigrant who sees parallels to what happened in Germany during Hitler-times and what is now happening in America today.
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LESSON 11 – ANDREA’S LIVING METAPHORS
1. What I learned doing this assignment:
Applying SHOULD-WORK-BUT-DOESN’T requires a close look at the character’s old ways – and to be able to set this up suitably so the time they try their old way, and it doesn’t work, the moment should land. I imagine using this technique as a subtextual seasoning to put the audience and the character on alert that their days are numbered using the old ways. I was happy to see I have already done much of this in the first act instinctually.
Using METAPHORS is much more intuitive for me. Since my theme in the movie is about doing SHADOW-WORK, the living metaphors pop up easily. I mean my whole hypnotic journey world is a living metaphor for Jill’s oppressive emotional state of mind. As a fan of Jungian psychology this is a field day for me.
2. Examples of SHOULD WORK, BUT DOESN’T Challenges: w/ challenge, old way, and application in story:
a. OLD WAY: Jill dissociates when met with conflict – but now that she has accepted a job with more responsibility, she can’t get away with it.
CHALLENGE: PATRON
SCENE APPLICATION:
Jill approaches a table in the restaurant.
JILL
How’s everything tonight?
A blue-haired woman looks startled.
BLUE HAIR
Who are you? Are you new here?
JILL
I’m the new manager, but you may have seen me at the bar.
BLUE HAIR
Did you come here to drink?
JILL
No, I…um…was the bartender. Ha, ha. That’s a good one.
The woman looks serious.
BLUE HAIR
Well, I’m not at all happy with my salad…
As the woman goes on and on about her salad, Jill’s eyes glaze over.
JILL IMAGINES…
The woman getting on top of the table, as if she were an evangelical preacher giving a sermon…and the crowd throwing rotten tomatoes at her.
BLUE HAIR
(snaps)
I BEG YOUR PARDON. ARE YOU GOING TO REPLACE MY SALAD OR JUST STAND THERE GAWKING?
Jill blinks then snatches up the salad having no idea what Blue Hair wanted.
b. OLD WAY: Jill Needs to Isolate When She’s Overwhelmed – but now that she has accepted a job with more responsibility, she can’t get away with it.
CHALLENGE: Chef
SCENE APPLICATION:
Jill stands in the refrigerated icebox surrounded by salads and prepped vegetables – and tries to catch her breath.
One of the chefs walks in. He doesn’t look happy.
CHEF
You can’t use this space. You have your own space now. We have to have room to come and go and not feel like we’re disturbing you.
c. OLD WAY: Jill is crippled with self-doubt
CHALLENGE: On the mothership, Jill and her friend Pal are looking for a way off the ship.
SCENE APPLICATION:
A job opening appears for a cargo pilot in the breakroom. Jill balks at the idea… c’mon, be serious. She is the only one who may qualify since she has psychic tendencies. Then when they meet a motivated crew member to help them so he too can get off, she starts to see how she may be able to do this. But, when the opportunity presents itself to take the aptitude test – she refuses – putting the plan in jeopardy.
d. OLD WAY: Jill is self-righteous when it comes to the defending the underdog.
CHALLENGE: A genetically engineered giant toddler being used for its beautiful hair is disturbed by Jill’s tirade.
SCENE APPLICATION:
As Jill learns about this giant 30 ft toddler’s DNA being used to produce beauty/ hair products her angry energy disturbs the baby, causing it to almost tear down the door. Before, her tirades or tantrums had no affect whatsoever. Now they garner attention.
INTRODUCTION OF A NEW WAY: Jill is persuaded to “sing” a lullaby to the child to settle it down – and it works.
3. Examples of LIVING METAPHOR Challenges: w/ challenge, old way, and application in story:
a. OLD WAY: Jill has repressed her dark feelings causing her to be imbalanced in her life.
CHALLENGE: Jimmie Nightwalker “sees” her.
METAPHOR: BLACK WOLF
SCENE APPLICATIONS:
After NIGHTWALKER has told the tourists at the bar the story of the Two Wolves – he gives Jill a Black Wolf talisman to remind her to be on the lookout for the shadow and when you find it – make sure you remember to feed it too.
b. OLD WAY: Jill lets others define her/ no personal boundaries
CHALLENGE: General Manager Dan, New General Manager Rachel, space traffickers.
METAPHOR: HAIR – How Hair Defines Jill’s ability to reclaim her authenticity and personal power.
SCENE APPLICATIONS:
SCENE 1. In one scene Dan is negging Jill about her hair – how it’s a bold look for her.
SCENE 2: In a follow up scene, after Rachel coerces Jill into becoming the new bar manager. Rachel, on Jill’s first day on the job, then forces Jill to fix her hair to an appropriate style.
SCENE 3: In another later scene, when Jill is in the hypnotic journey world – she is captured along with other kids on this alien planet and then forced to have their heads shaved. It looks as though Jill will “go along to get along” – until she snaps and causes chaos and mayhem to get away.
SCENE 4: Jill shaves half her own head in solidarity with the “taken” – but keeps half to show her defiance.
c. OLD WAY: Jill has been unaware of her true “expansive” potential because she has been over-shadowed by her repressed feelings.
CHALLENGE: In the hypnotic journey – The cargo spaceship carries the captive children from the subterranean world to a mothership outside of the planet’s atmosphere.
METAPHOR: THE SKY
SCENE APPLICATIONS:
The cargo ship flies out of the underground of this ice planet and rises above the surface, where Jill sees the sky for the first time – and is in awe.
d. OLD WAY: Jill seems unaware of her higher self – meaning she is anchorless without a guiding compass.
CHALLENGE: Initially, the cargo ship on the mothership, is a conscious-assisted sentient being once it downloads the appropriate consciousness to operate it. Jill has to figure out how to operate it…now that she has qualified.
METAPHOR: THE SPACECRAFT
SCENE APPLICATION:
Jill is able to enter the craft by virtue of her ability to telepathically link with it. But operating this thing is another matter…and she’s in a big fat hurry. Once she is consciously linked through her hands the ship begins to communicate with her. And though she is able to get it to levitate and move forward – even get the doors to open – the auto pilot flicks on for the rest of the way, as she is not yet suitably trained for this stage of flying. The metaphor is she needs to learn to relax and trust the guidance and then be able to master her own vessel.
e. OLD WAY: Jill has repressed emotional trauma -> her shadow-side
CHALLENGE: Going into a hypnotic journey to discover her characters and who knows what else.
METAPHOR: The World she encounters during the hypnosis is her mental state.
SCENE APPLICATION:
Everything from page 30 until 75 and then again in the whole third act.
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5 Questions Challenging The Old Ways with Counter Examples
Jim Clark – Assignment
What I learned from this exercise: Having characters queston a viewpoint can heighten the stakes and create greater intrigue between the characters.
1- INT. IRV’S DELI – MORNING
Margie blinks in response to the vision. She takes a final sip of her tea, signs the credit card slip, wraps her short silk scarf around her neck and slides out of the booth. She steadies herself with her cane and walks to the front door. The waitress is at the register.
DONNA
How was today’s parade?
MARGIE
Nice.
DONNA
Does it ever change?
MARGIE
Why would it?
INT. RV PARK OFFICE – DAY
2-TEDDY COLLINS (60) hands Ruth a piece of paper.
INSERT NAME BADGE:
Chiriaco Vista RV Park
Teddy CollinsManager
TEDDY
Site number 57. Two streets up then turn left.
RUTH
Thanks.
Teddy leers as she walks away.
Without turning around…
RUTH (CONT’D)
Am I feeling your eyeballs, Mr. Collins?
Teddy turns away. Ruth leaves the office.
3- INT. MARGIE’S HOME – DAY
Doorbell rings. Margie opens the door. Karen Halverson is facing Margie. There is a Mezuzah on the doorpost.
KAREN HALVERSON
Good morning Mrs. Owens.
Margie is surprised, quickly assesses and responds.
MARGIE
Miss Halverson. You are here because?
KAREN
I’m following up on my previous visit. May I come in?
Before Margie can respond, Karen steps through the door brushing past Margie.
Margie turns to face Karen.
MARGIE
You may not. You may leave. You are a rude young lady aren’t you?
KAREN
Just doing my job Mrs. Owens. Now that I’m here, why don’t we chat.
Karen moves around the entryway looking at items. She uses her finger to check for dust on a table. She eyes the photos on the mantle. Margie still stands in the doorway with the door open.
Margie is taking a video of the activity on her phone.
MARGIE
There will be no conversation. I don’t like you conducting an inspection of my home.
Do you enjoy being a bullycrat that makes an income from my tax dollars?
KAREN
I need to see…
MARGIE
…I play golf with the former Chief of Police for Palm Springs. I could claim this is a home invasion. You decide.
Karen stares at Margie for a few seconds. She steps toward the door. Margie moves aside to let her out. Karen turns back to face Margie.
KAREN
Mrs. Owens, your healthcare provider…
Margie’s index finger hovers over the dial pad on her cell phone.
MARGIE
Three…
Karen backs up and opens the front door but doesn’t exit.
MARGIE (CONT’D)
Two…
Karen backs out and stands with her toes on the door sill.
KAREN
I’m just doing my …
MARGIE
One!
Margie closes the door in Karen’s face.
4- INT. IRV’S DELI – DAY
Margie sits at her normal booth with a view of Highway 111. Ruth, Maureen and Sandi are in a booth several feet away. Ruth is seated and has a clear view of Margie and the highway outside. Margie has her Lox, sliced tomatoes, bagel and herbal tea. Ruth is drawn to observe Margie. Maureen is working on a Bloody Mary. Ruth is drinking tea and Sandi is drinking coffee.
MAUREEN
Ruth, Where’d ya go?
RUTH
Sorry. I was just watching a lady in another booth. She’s interesting.
SANDI
Could be a celebrity.
RUTH
I don’t think that’s it. But there’s just something about her – substance, authenticity.
Margie glances over at Ruth and her friends. She and Ruth lock eyes.
Margie smiles and nods. Ruth smiles back.
Margie turns her head and gazes out the window watching as traffic goes by.
MAUREEN
You were a nurse right?
Ruth nods.
MAUREEN (CONT’D)
I started as a nurse but moved into Administration.
RUTH
Gotta lot of respect for Hospital Administrators. Where’d you work?
MAUREEN
Army.
RUTH
My son was a Navy Corpsman. Marine Recon. Iraq. Thanks for your service.
Maureen bristles. She finishes her Bloody Mary in one gulp. She holds up the empty glass to the waitress and points at it.
MAUREEN
Service doesn’t mean a thing.
SANDI
Maureen!
RUTH
Why wouldn’t it?
Maureen looks at Ruth, purses her lips, turns away and looks out the window.
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Bill Southwell’s Living Metaphors
What I learned doing this assignment is that my script must be re-written to incorporate challenges to the “Old Ways”. Or, maybe, redefine the “Old Ways”. Currently there is a profound journey for the lead character, but the oppression is not her old ways, but her struggles with looming death. Her husband, the change agent, does have “Old Ways” which are challenged. I will create some Should Work but Doesn’t challenges and some Living Metaphors .
1. Should Work but Doesn’t. Bill’s background is practical but his association with Charis both before and after they marry opens a new world to him. He learns to appreciate the beauty of nature, the inspiration of classical music, and especially the power of literature. His Old Ways are challenged in the following ways.
a. At a picnic while lying on the grass looking up, Charis points out dogs in the white clouds. Do you see that, she says. No, he says, I see water droplets and ice crystals that scatter all colors of sunlight making them white. But with her prompting he does see the shapes she sees
b. When they are driving across Wyoming he apologizes for the dullness of the scenery—nothing but grey and brown. But Charis points to him that there are also shades of red and yellow. Looking more intently, he does see the variety of colors.
c. As they drive out to the Wyoming farm, Charis says “Look at those sunflowers, I would love to paint them.” But Bill says, “Those are wild sunflowers, weeds. They do not produce sunflower seeds you can eat. The cattle don’t eat them. We just cut them down.” Charis responds by saying, “But see what a bright yellow the pedals are. They are saying what a wonderful day it is.” His old ways of seeing them did not work this time. They, indeed, did invoke an uplifting feeling.
d. After seeing the movie The Music Man, Bill comments that he considers the Music Man to be a despised con artist. But Charis said there is more beneath the surface with the Music Man, as evidenced by the scene at the bridge where he says to Marian (the librarian) that there always has to be a boy’s band. Bill contemplates her remark and begins to envision more about the Music Man’s background.
2. 5 Living Metaphor challenges. Many of Charis’ poems are metaphors.
a. Seabird This poem symbolizes the many boyfriends Charis had but then flew away when they learned of her health condition.
b. To Hopkin’s Nun This poem is Charis’ response to Gerard Manly Hopkin’s poem describing a Nun entering the convent to be sheltered from the world. Charis’ poem describes a counter attitude of facing the storms of life. This is a metaphor for Charis’ energetic positive attitude toward life.
c. To Death This poem personifies Death who appears in her poetry as coming to take Charis. But she almost always has an answer for him.
d. The dialysis unit of the hospital is a metaphor for the celestial kingdom. Charis and Bill have worked so long to finally be accepted in dialysis program, the only hope of keeping Charis alive. There is soft music. There is light laughter among both the patients and the nurses. Bill relaxes in a chair beside her bed and breaths a sigh of relief. But tragically this changes for Bill into a horrific scene. Hospital medics rush in with crash carts. Doctors are summoned and they hussle in and out. They close the folding doors that opened into the dialysis room. Bill is asked to leave. He refuses, but is ushered out. But the scene for Charis remains calm and peaceful as a cherished departed grandmother comes to greet Charis. Charis is heard to say (VO). “Oh I know you now. How good you look. How good I feel.”
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Roback Profound Screenplay Assign 11
What I learned
Both techniques are new to me and both are excellent devices to illustrate the transition from the old ways to the new ways. I especially like the image of Fanny letting her long, curly blonde hair grow out as a symbol of her movement away from the “old ways”.
Things that should work but don’t in “Story of a Girl”
Pray for the boycott to end. Nothing happens <div>
<div>
See a
lawyer. Nothing can be done. In English Canada anything that is not
forbidden is legal. In Quebec
nothing is legal unless it is permitted.See the
Bet Din in Montreal. She wants the
chief rabbi to intercede with the Cardinal to get the priest to call off
the boycott. The chief rabbi
assures Fanny that the Cardinal does not get up in the morning and asks himself,
“What good thing can I do for the Jews today?”See
Abraham, the Harvard Professor – He tells her to send the children to the
Catholic school. The issue isn’t
being part of the community, the church wants a tithe of 10%. It’s all
about MONEY.F
Fanny
sees if she can get the priest fired.
He is the son of the Cardinal’s best friend.Living Metaphors
Fanny
refuses to shave her head and wear a wig. She lets her long curly blonde hair grow
out.</div>Fanny
refuses to take chickens to the rabbi in Quebec City to certify they are
kosher.For
Nathaniel’s bar mitzvah, Fanny gives her son a razor, breaking the
biblical injunction against letting your beard grow.After ten
children her husband can sleep alone.
She is DONE.She wants
to open the store on the Sabbath.
Moses says absolutely not.</div>
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Day 11 Challenging the Old ways through ”Should Work But Doesn’t and “Living Metaphors
Jim Clark’s Assignment
What I learned from this assignment: Metaphors and questions can be powerful tools in making changes in the life views of the characters.
Should work but doesn’t
1. Choose an Old Way
2. Use the Old Way expecting Success
3. Failure. Character needs to find a New Way
1.
A. Karen invades Margie’s location in the ER
B. Expecting to use her color of authority one more time to try and intimidate Margie
C. Margie and Ruth turn the intimidation technique on Karen forcing her to leave the ER
2.
A. Veteran’s Day event at the VFW. Maureen is drunk and lashes out at Clifton and Ruth.
B. Maureen insults everyone of her acquaintances. She tries to leave byt is too drunk to drive
C. She’s taken home by Pastor Phil who she despises because he was an enlisted NCO rather than a Commission Officer.
3.
A. Clifton’s PTSD is triggered every Veteran’s Day. He’s isolating in his RV
B. It doesn’t work because Ruth won’t allow him to continue to isolate.
C. Ruth stays at his bedside comforting him and letting him know he’s valuable.
4.
A. Ruth tells Margie about Walter
B. Margie refuses to listen.
C. Margie goes through a box of baby items
5.
A. Clifton has spent 25 years living a solitary life
B. Ruth invades his life
C. He asks Ruth to marry him
Living Metaphors
1. Select an Old Way
2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way
3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way
1.
A. Margie has no children or grandchildren
B. She goes through an old box of items for a baby that never transpired.
C. Margie agrees to see Ruth as the daughter of Walter
D.
2.
A. Maureen’s injury represents her internal pain over her life choices
B. She rebukes everyone around her
C. She eventually takes her own life
3.
A. Nancy & Phil take Thanksgiving dinner to Maureen’s RV
B. The dinner is untouched
C. Maureen died alone feeling unloved.
4.
A. Karen Is pulled over by a police officer who writes her a ticket. She’s furious. Margie drives by and they lock eyes
B. Karen loses her job on Christmas Eve.
C. Spending Christmas alone with no friends, Karen opens her Bible
5.
A. Karen does manual labor at the RV Park
B. She enjoys the exercise and being in the fresh air.
C. Pastor Phil asks her what se learned and she gives an apt answer.
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