A pig of a PROBLEM
Make your story move along by putting obstacles in your characters’ way, with advice from Helen M Walters
In this month’s story the characters start out with a problem, and in trying to solve that problem they end up with a whole lot more problems. The Boar-Pig by Saki is a little gem of a story and we’re going to find out why. As always, you will benefit most if you read the story for yourself: writ.rs/boarpig In the first paragraph, we meet our first two characters – Mrs Philidore Stossen and her daughter. They are contemplating how to get access to Mrs Cuvering’s illustrious garden party. There’s just one problem. They haven’t been invited.
So, what to do? Well, Mrs Stossen has a plan. They’ll access the garden via a grass paddock and fruit garden at the back rather than presenting themselves at the front of the house in the normal way.
Unknown to them, they are about to encounter their first problem. What they don’t know, but thirteen-year-old Matilda Cuvering, who is observing them from the branches of a medlar tree, does, is that the door to the fruit garden is actually locked.
Notice that Matilda has a problem as well. She and her cousin Claude are having a competition to see who can collect the most money for charity.
As Matilda has been banned from the garden party for bad behaviour, Claude will have free rein and will almost certainly win. Matilda therefore decides to use the Stossens’ problem to her own advantage. Having observed that they cannot get into the garden in the way they had intended, and will have to come back through the paddock, she releases the family’s boar pig into the paddock to head them off.
Leggete l'articolo completo e molti altri in questo numero di
Writing Magazine
Opzioni di acquisto di seguito
Se il problema è vostro,
Accesso
per leggere subito l'articolo completo.
Singolo numero digitale
May 2019
Questo numero e altri numeri arretrati non sono inclusi in un nuovo
abbonamento. Gli abbonamenti comprendono l'ultimo numero regolare e i nuovi numeri pubblicati durante l'abbonamento.
Writing Magazine
Abbonamento digitale annuale
€69,99
fatturati annualmente
Abbonamento digitale di 6 mesi
€35,99
fatturati due volte l'anno