Lesson 11

[penny WINGERT]

Penny Wingert, Old way , people should get along, but must be challenged to work together for a common goal. 2 Praying for help and waiting can be challenged while instead you can build an arch to sail away on. 3. Drugs to make one work faster are a challenge to get off of and only serve to destroy you. 4. thinking the only way through something is straight ahead challenged to go around. I Learned you must have a alternate plan to succeed.

[Madeleine Vessel]

Madeleine’s Living Metaphors

What I learned doing this assignment is that transformation in a character can be shown gradually after a series of should work tries but doesn’t. I also learned how to use living metaphors to challenge Old Ways. Great assignment!

Should Work, But Doesn’t Challenges:

a. Murl Gayle shows Tony his painting of a cowboy. Tony should know him. He grew up around him. But when Tony examines it, he can’t identify him.

Dennis tells Tony to get more people to look at the painting. Tony just wants to be left alone. But then an opportunity to have it displayed among other of Murl’s paintings at Delinda’s art gallery arises. And he takes it.

At the preview of Mur’s collection, Owen, Anna-Maude, Camilla, and Kenny recognize the cowboy. He’s Owen. But it turns out, Anna-Maude does not accuse Owen because of the painting. So Tony’s no closer to finding the culprit responsible for Sally’s disappearance.

Old Way: Murl trusts his psychologist. Challenge: When, under hypnosis, he finishes the painting, he doesn’t know who the cowboy is.

b. After Anna-Maude runs off a burglar in her house, the Sheriff suggests she stay with a friend. But she refuses because she has a dog and a rifle. She insists she can take care of herself. A few days later, an arsonist lights her house on fire with her in it.

Old way: Anna-Maude insists she can take care of herself. Challenge: The fire burns down her house even though she has a dog and is armed with a rifle.

c. The Sheriff Deputy finds a text message from a local chile farmer to Jack saying that if he finds his dog on his farm again he’s going to shoot it through the head. He suggests to Anna-Maude that the farmer has a motive to kill.

Anna-Maude insists the farmer would never kill Jack, but the Sheriff investigates anyway. He won’t take her word alone. Turns out he has a .308 rifle which shoots the same caliber of bullet that killed Jack.

Old Way: Anna-Maude thinks she knows the chile farmer. Challenge: The Sheriff won’t take her word for it.

d. Tony would like to mend fences with Anna-Maude, who has been estranged from him since they were teenagers. But every time, he comes in contact with Anna-Maude, he ruffles her feathers. In one instance, he accuses her of trespassing on his land with a metal detector, when clearly, she’s there for another purpose.

Old way: Tony has been estranged from Anna-Maude since they were teenager. Challenge:Every time, he tries to mend fences, he makes things worse.

e. Anna-Maude saves Tony’s life not knowing who he really is. When she finds out who he is, she accuses him of lying to her. Tony just can’t get back in Anna-Maude’s good graces.

Old way: Anna-Maude saves Tony’s life before she knows who he is. Challenge: When she finds out his true identity, she accuses him of lying to her. Tony is no closer to mending fences with Anna-Maude than he ever was.

Living Metaphor Challenges

a. After Anna-Maude kills a rattlesnake in her path and gets splatter on her work clothes, she declares she hates Monsoon Season. Every kind of horror rising up from the earth. Every year, I pray to God I live through it. Turns out Monsoon Season is the same time Sally disappeared and the same time Jack was murdered and the same time that Anna-Maude is experiencing so many bad things. Monsoon Season is her one weakness.

Ironically, it will be Monsoon Season when she solves the three murders.

Old Way: Monsoon Season is the time of year bad things happen to Anna-Maude. Challenge:Embracing what comes up during Monsoon Season leads Anna-Maude to the killer.

b. Murl Gayle paints a cowboy under hypnosis in a desperate to rid himself of the nightmares he’s having about the night Sally disappeared. But when he’s done, he doesn’t recognize the cowboy. Neither does he know if the cowboy is the one responsible for Sally’s going missing.

And yet later, Anna-Maude will look at the painting, put two and two together, and identify him as the murderer of three people.

Old Way: Murl doesn’t recognize the cowboy in the painting he’s drawn. Challenge: Someone else does recognize the cowboy, which leads to solving the murders..

c. Anna-Maude suspects that Jack’s missing Chinese artifacts are the motive for his murder. They are worth millions of dollars. But the Chinese man who burgled her house doesn’t have them. The artifacts seem like a dead end until Anna-Maude realizes that it was Jack’s digging on Oxley Farm, not his digging up the Chinese artifacts from Oxley Farm that got him murdered.

Old Way: Because the artifacts are valuable, they must be the motive for Jack’s death. Challenge: It’s not the artifacts that are the motive, but rather the digging of them up that is the motive.

d. Murl Gayle tells Tony that both Anna-Maude and his sister, Sally, were his students the summer Sally went missing. Of the two, he say, “Sally was the real artist.”

And yet, it turns out that Anna-Maude’s spot-on facial reconstructions lead to the identification of a man murdered forty years before and a woman, who died in the late 1500s and whose ownership of the Chinese Artifacts Jack found, lead Anna-Maude to the motive for Jack’s killing.

Old Way: Murl doesn’t credit Anna-Maude with being an artist. Challenge: Anna-Maude’s facial reconstructions turn out to be inspired art. So does her drawing of a dragon tattoo from memory.

e. Yellow roses keep coming up in the story. A yellow rose was Sally’s favorite flower. She painted them on the walls of her bedroom when a teenager.

Anna-Maude’s friend, Stella, places a yellow rose on the grave of Jack’s dead dog, Roy.

There’s a yellow rose garden, including 17 rosebushes, on Oxley Farm that no one remembers planting.

In the end, it’s the absence of the roses in the painting of the cowboy that leads Anna-Maude to Sally’s dead body.

Old Way: Sally loved yellow roses. The rose garden on Oxley Farm symbolize her love for them. Challenge: No one knows who planted the roses until Anna-Maude figures out they are a memorial.