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Gustav freytag was a 19th century German novelist who saw patterns

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in the plots of stories and novels and developed a diagram to analyze them he [Gustav holding a piece of paper at a desk]

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didn't have a blooming social life cut the guy some slack anyway we can use

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Freytag's pyramid to retell a story or map out a story elements and events which is

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super helpful and makes us like him a lot in fact if Gustav were still around [students dancing in a classroom]

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we totally hang out with him ah the irony okay so parts of the pyramid are

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exposition ie where a story begins and where the main action is established [diagram of freytag's pydramid]

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conflict where the main problem is established rising action where the

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problem gets bigger climax the story's crazy turning point falling action

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where the problem is resolved and resolution where everything is wrapped

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up with a neat tidy little bow on top let's look at Goldilocks ok but let's [a woman in a misty park wearing a pink jacket]

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not stare the girl is a bit paranoid and with good reason exposition at the

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beginning of the story Goldilocks is walking through the forest when she

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comes upon a house yep we're definitely establishing the action and setting up [goldilocks approaching a wooden house]

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the story to come conflict even though she knows she's not supposed to go in

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she does anyway what a rebel rising action Goldilocks tastes the bear's

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porridge eating all of baby bears breakfast she sits in all their chairs [goldilocks sitting on a chair]

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and breaks baby bears chair she tests all their beds and falls asleep in baby

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bears bed you think she had a personal vendetta against the kid climax the

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Bears come home and find Goldilocks asleep in baby bears bed rut roh falling [a bear entering the home]

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action Goldilocks wakes up and finds the bear staring at her she screams and runs

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home we can't say we blame her those bears looked hangry and resolution

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Goldilocks learned never to go into people's houses again without knocking [a hand knocking on a wooden front door]

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first the Bears meanwhile learn to lock their doors when they leave the house

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almost every story you read will have all these elements in it because they're

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what make for an interesting story building drama a big shake-up and a [freytag's pyramid with an arrow displaying the flow of a story]

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happy ending and whenever possible cultured wildlife

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