EXPOSITION PLOT DIAGRAM SERIES

Obstacle 2 (New) Red encounters her “grandmother,” but realizes something is wrong. Obstacle 1 (New) Red has played in the woods all day and it begins to get dark. The wolf tricks her into staying to pick flowers while the wolf goes to her grandmother’s house. She decides to keep going deeper into the forest.Īct 1 Climax (New) Red meets with the Big Bad Wolf. Second Thoughts (New)She sees the dark forest ahead of her and almost goes back to the comfort of her cottage until she sees the flowers. Little Rid's mother warns her not to stay on the path and not stray. In Little Red Riding Hood, the inciting incident is Red’s grandmother getting sick and her mother asking her to take a basket to her grandmother’s house. Inciting IncidentThis is where the story kicks off. The wolf tries to escape, but the stones slow him down and kill him. In Little Red Riding Hood, this is her confrontation with the wolf dressed as her grandmother, ending with the wolf eating her.įalling Action This section asks the question,'how is the hero going to get out of this?' In Little Red Riding Hood, this is when the woodcutter sneaks up on the wolf and cuts Red and her grandmother from the belly of the beast.ĭenouement This is the resolution where everything is wrapped up in a bow, In Little Red Riding Hood, the woodcutter fills the wolf’s stomach with stones and sews it back up.

The third rising action is her meeting with the wolf.ĬlimaxThis is the peak everything has been building to this moment. The second rising action is her choice to disobey her mother and pick flowers. In Little Red Riding Hood, the first rising action is Red being warned to stay on the path.

EXPOSITION PLOT DIAGRAM SERIES

There should be a series of rising actions. Inciting IncidentThis is what the story kicks the story off. Who are these people? Why should we care? In Little Red Riding Hood, the exposition is the explanation that there is a little girl who lives in a village near the woods and always wears a red hood.

Exposition plot diagram