Day 13 Assignments

[Terrell Harris]

Delivers Insights Through Conflict

What I learned doing this assignment is conflict isn’t just for the sake of having conflict but for insights making conflict more poignant.

1. New way of showing love.

Misunderstanding and false accusation

Jocelyn confronts Cyndi about love, she wants the attention John is showing Cyndi.
She accuses her of pursuing and trying brainwashing John with her nice act.
Cyndi tells her they treat people with a little love and kindness here and you’re not used to that.
Jocelyn accuses her of being a violent thug after John’s money and warns her to stay away from John as there is no other reason for her “nice act” or is there?

2. New way to deal with citizens from the Lower City

Argument, Love triangle (hidden), Power struggle

There a plan to wipe out Lower City, the corporation wants the resources and the people eliminated.
John wants to stop that plan since he’s gotten to know them a little
But Evie seems highly emotional about a simple means to an end
John digs for the truth but Evie’s prejudice against them is relentless (her husband had a child with a woman from Lower City).
John is passionate is his argument but Evie doesn’t budge.
John threatens to go over her head to the board members.
John storms out. Evie moves the plan up to much sooner

3. New insight: love should come first

public embarrassment, plan goes wrong

John makes his public/staged proposal to Jocelyn at the elite function
Jocelyn turns him down
she makes her own speech that she’s decided love should come first, john just has to prove he really loves her.

4. New insight: John doesn’t like kids because he has pedophobia
misunderstanding

when the kids learn John will spend the night
A girl tells the other kids she overheard sleeping with a rich guy is a good
kids question why? Nobody knows, but the kids grab blankets and pillows and camp out near where john is passed out from drinking.
John awakens in the middle of the night surrounded by the snoozing children. He shrinks away from them and begins screaming so the kids wake up screaming too.
Cyndi awakens to diffuse the confusion.

5. Cyndi’s best friend is a member of a hacker group

argument

All hackers have a tattoo visible under black light. Cyndi accidentally catches a glimpse of Kenny’s tattoo. She’s excited because the hacker group is famous in the lower City as a sort of community activist origination. Cyndi is hurt he never confided in her that he’s a member of Black Snow. Kenny had no choice it’s a “secret” hacker organization but they have been friends forever. Cyndi won’t excuse it, he should have told her. Kenny say he’ll make it up to her by introducing her to the head of Black Snow. The head of Black Snow has a covert mission she wants Cyndi to undertake.

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[andrea cabanas]

Andrea Cabanas, Delivers Insights Through Conflict.

I learned that by creating conflicts, you also connect your characters to the audience in a powerful way.

1. Zoe accepts who she is

I want to show her rethinking what’s wrong/right regarding religion that so far has held her from accepting herself.

Conflict: a visual confrontation between Zoe and the priest.

Deliver the insight: when the priest comes to Zoe’s house and tells Katrina that he’s leaving the church (but for other reasons). Zoe still respects his silence.

Confident

Zoe believes in herself as an intelligent woman—she has a voice.

Conflict: an argument with her mother.

Delivery: Zoe tries to show her mother her projects, but Katrina is resilient in accepting that her daughter can be successful. Katrina still thinks that as a woman, she needs to find a man, have kids and have no career. But Zoe will show her the contrary and convinces her mother how good she is; moreover, Zoe will push Katrina to paint more and put her artwork in the community art gallery.

Controls over her finance

Conflict: temptation – a trip to Bali

Delivery: there’s a public holiday coming in, and her friends are planning a trip to Bali. Although not expensive, Georgia convinces Zoe that even $800 can make a difference in saving money to buy her flat.

Unprejudiced

Conflict: mother is rude even with kids

Delivery: Katrina and Zoe are in the market when some kids sell lemonade to raise funds for something. One of the boys looks like a girl, and Katrina makes a prejudiced comment. Zoe argues and says, ‘They are just kids and need to be loved.’

2. Near-death experience, getting lost somewhere, sudden loss of memory, the beginning of a war, and being forced to migrate.