Character Types:

The Hero: The hero is generally the person in the film or story that leads the narrative through the whole thing. They will usually have a quest to complete for an end goal.In my children’s book the hero for this would be the third pig. The reason for this is because this is the pig that thought on his feet and made his home from a suitable material, which wolves can’t blow down.Not only this but at the end the pig cooks and eats the wolf for supper which is quite ironic due to throughout the whole story the wolf has been eating the pigs.

The Villain: The villain is usually the person who has the commotion with the hero throughout the whole story. They would usually have stereotypical characteristics of a villain.In my story is quite obviously the wolf. You can see this from the first couple of scenes due to the wolf blowing the straw house down and eating the first pig.

The Prize/princess: This is the person or something who the hero would usually be sent on a quest to collect/retrieve. This object regardless of it been a person would have many people trying to get the same thing. Meaning this is where the tension comes from.In the case of this narrative the prize would be the safety and the freedom of the pigs. This is something throughout the whole story that each pig works towards, but only one succeeds.

The Donor: The donor is the person who gives the hero exactly what they need to complete their quest.In this case the donor would be the farmer, lumberjack and the builder who allow the pigs to attempt to build their own homes. Them doing this gave them at least the chance of survival, which is the prize in this story. You wouldn’t normally find pigs building houses which is why it’s a good idea that the author used a lot of anthropomorphism to make the pigs seem more human like

The Helper: This is the person who helps the hero on their quest but sometimes they can seem to be quite useless. They will usually have limitation to what they can do in the story. This would be because if they are seen as useless to the audience it will highlight the heroic characteristics of the hero.I would usually say that the helper and donor in this story are the same persons, the farmer, lumberjack and the builder.

The Princess’ Father: This is usually the person who the hero has to either impress or persuade to allow them to complete their quest. I don’t have this character in my story here’s an example; Princess Fiona’s dad in the second Shrek is the person who Shrek has to try and impress and persuade him to allow Shrek to marry his daughter. There are many things throughout this film that have been put into place to prevent them from

getting married. At the end this person will always favor the hero at the last moment to build as much tension as possible before they do.

The False Hero: This person would usually pose as a hero but then portray the hero to try stealing their thunder or to for fill their own needs. It could also be someone who tries the same thing as the hero but fails at his or her attempt. In my children’s story I would say that the first two pigs are seen as the false hero’s . They both attempt what the third pig does which is to build a home to keep them safe from things outside in the night. Not with as much intelligence or thought as to what they used and the result of this was their homes been blown over and been eaten.

The Dispatcher: This person will usually appear at the beginning of the story. This is the person who would set the main characters on their way for the journey.In this narrative the granny who has to let the pigs go due to the lack of money she has. Due to the granny been in this situation the pigs are left no choice but to go out and make their own ways in life.

Narrative Theory

Equilibrium: This is the starting scene, which usually consists of something that the main character would do on their everyday life. At the beginning of my story due to it having to be cut down a serious amount I had to miss this scene out on my own attempt at the story. In the original script the start scene is the old granny getting the pigs ready to send them off in search of their own fortunes.Due to it been a short story it doesn’t need to have much of an opening scene where as if you were talking about this in terms of a film they would have a much larger opening scene to build atmosphere and introduce characters

Disequilibrium:

This part is also at the beginning of my story even though you would find this near the centre usually. This is when the granny announces to the pigs they have to leave the house and go and make their own way in life. Due to this happening the pigs have no choice but to deal with the situation and go find shelter and build their own homes. This only consisted on one page.

New Equilibrium:

This is the part in the story where the issue has bee resolved and the character go back to how things were normally. In my book this is the very last scene where the pig thinks on his feet and lets the wolf fall into the cauldron. After the wolf is dead things go back to normal for the pig because they will no longer be hunted.

Binary Opposition: When talking about binary opposition in my book I would say that my narrative falls into the ‘Good vs Evil’ This is because all three of the pigs a shown as harmless beings but the wolf is made out the be an evil figure who’s only out to eat the pigs.Narrative Structure:

Closed narrative- I would say that my children’s book falls into the closed narrative due to there been a solution at the end of the book. Even though it comes at the loss of two pgs. The third pig finds out how to stop the wolf. You can structure out a closed narrative quite easily due to their been a solution to work towards throughout production.Single Strand- My book is a single strand narrative. I think this because there’s only one main story line in my book that is followed the whole way through. It would be considered a multi strand if there was more than one story line which was involved in our books. Seen as though we only had 12 maximum pages, it meant we were quite limited as to which we wanted.Linear- The reason I have listed my book as a linear book is because there is a very structured way on which this book is laid out. There’s the issue at the beginning which starts the whole story off by them getting kicked out of the granny’s house. This starts a series of events that results in each pig building their own homes and the wolf attempting it’s hardest to catch each pig. The last/smartest pig of all is the one that survives. The is a begging> Build up> peak> Solution and ending (Realistic/Anti-realistic)- I have made curtain things in my book have extra detail. When making the background with the sky and the tree line I would keep it very simple but effective. When I came to making my assets such as characters and the materials which the pigs were going to use, this is where the detail was added because you need to make sure the audience know what everything is through visual because even though there’s text, it’s very limited how much you can use due to the audience been so young. I feel that this book would a fall into anti realistic section. This is because even though the pigs and the wolf are doing things which you could expect people to do because they’re been personified, it is a story line which couldn’t happen in reality so it would be seen as anti realistic.