Elements of Plot Using Pixar's Partly Cloudy

Plot

"What Happened?"

"What happened?" You often ask this question when you want to know what is going on. In a story, the answer to "What happened?" is the plot.

Watch "Partly Cloudy" and pay attention to what happens in the story!

What happened? Who were the characters? What was the most intense part? How did it end?

Most plots have a basic structure like this:

Let's look at each of the elements of plot

using Pixar's Partly Cloudy....

One cloud makes dangerous baby animals and the stork that delivers for him doesn't seem to enjoy delivering them.

• The storm cloud continues to make dangerous animals for the stork to deliver including an alligator, a ram, a porcupine,
• The stork pretends to be okay with his deliveries, but he actually envies all of the other storks and the "safe" babies that they get to deliver.
• The storm cloud is upset that the stork keeps getting hurt, but seems to love the babies that he is creating.

The stork seems to be tired of always being hurt and leaves the storm cloud. The storm cloud gets angry and then starts to cry.

The storm cloud stops crying as he sees the stork flying back to him carrying a bundle.

The stork opens the package to reveal the football gear to help him to continue to deliver the storm cloud's babies without getting hurt.

The direction the plot takes can lead us to determine the theme of a story

It is the lesson that the story teaches us about life!

The theme is not directly stated.

The reader makes an educated guess after thinking about the elements of the story.

So what do you think the theme of this story is?

Friends make sacrifices for each other

OR

There is always a way to make a rough situation better.

It's your turn! Map out the plot elements of Disney's Feast!

Theme: the central idea of a work of literature. The theme can be expressed in at least one complete sentence.

Resolution: the closing part of the story in which we learn how the characters have dealt with the outcome of the conflict.

Climax

Falling Action

Rising Action

Resolution

Conflict

Conflict:the problem that sets the plot in motion

Exposition

Rising Action: the part of the story in which the main character faces a series of conflicts on his or her journey toward reaching a goal

Falling Action: the conflict unravels

Exposition: The part of the story in which we are introduced to the characters, setting, and the basic situation.

• Characters: Clouds and Storks
• Setting: The sky
• Situation: the clouds make babies for the storks to deliver.

Climax: the point of highest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot. This marks the moment when the conflict takes a turn.