solved PART IIReread the story (attached file: The Story of Goldilocks
PART IIReread the story (attached file: The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears). Each time you reach a CHOICE that Goldilocks made, pause and consider the ALTERNATIVES. (based on the attached file: active choice exercise part 1)Sometimes, these alternatives will be fairly clearly stated in the text. For example, the text tells us that Goldilocks wanted to stay home and play with her dolls and toys instead of running the errand, so one ALTERNATIVE could be “Goldilocks stays home and plays with her toys” — or, depending on what you want to emphasize, “Goldilocks disobeys her mother”.Other times, the alternatives are implied and will require a little logical reasoning. For example, Goldilocks makes the CHOICE to chase the butterfly into the woods, but what is the alternative? The key here is to ask yourself “What would Goldilocks have actively chosen to do if she didn’t make that choice?” In this case, perhaps the choice is “Ignore the butterfly” or “Continue walking on the road” — or even “Ignore the butterfly and continue on the road!”The key is to write a choice that could lead to a RESULT that would lead Goldilocks to another SITUATION. “Ignore the butterfly” is okay but does not give us much of an idea what Goldilocks will do. “Continue walking on the road” gives us a very concrete understanding of what Goldilocks does after the butterfly disappears, so it is the better option.The only ALTERNATIVE that would be unacceptable here is “Don’t chase the butterfly?” Why? Because not doing something is not an active choice! “Ignore the butterfly” did not give us much of a sense of what Goldilocks will do next, but Goldilocks not doing something leaves the reader stuck! What’s she doing, just standing in the middle of the road waiting for the butterfly to leave?Finally, there will sometimes be more than one ALTERNATIVE choice for a given situation. This is partly a matter of interpretation and partly a matter of following the rules for active choices. For example, the ALTERNATIVES to Goldilocks first eating from the big bowl of porridge could include eating from the medium bowl or the small bowl. Another alternative for this choice could be Goldilocks skipping eating the porridge and getting back to her errand!The key here is to think about what logically follows in the story. For example, the narrative tells us that Goldilocks grows tired after eating the porridge, so it might not make sense to have Goldilocks look for a chair or bed to rest if she doesn’t eat the porridge. Another example: If Goldilocks tries the small bowl of porridge first and it’s “just right”, then she probably won’t try the medium or large bowl — so her choices after eating the porridge should focus on trying the chairs (or getting back on the path despite being tired, if you want)!Add the alternative (or alternatives) for each scenario above the choice that Goldilocks made so that each segment of your breakdown looks like this:SITUATION: A butterfly flies near GoldilocksALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks ignores the butterfly and stays on the road.CHOICE: Goldilocks chases the butterfly.RESULT: Goldilocks ends up deep in the woods.PART IIINow that you’ve thoroughly analyzed the choices in Goldilocks, you’re going to wrap up this project by adding a little creativity to it. Don’t you wish that there were more active and meaningful alternatives for Goldilocks? After all, this is just a children’s fairy tale.First, you’re going to figure out what might have happened to Goldilocks if she chose from the ALTERNATIVES that you just outlined. Pick two different SITUATIONS from your outline and write an ALTERNATE RESULT for each. In other words, you’re going to logically but creatively figure out what happens when Goldilocks chooses the alternative that you identified.The key here is to remember how you wrote each RESULT from the original story so that the next SITUATION logically followed. You need to ask yourself: What am I setting up to happen next? An example:SITUATION: A butterfly flies near GoldilocksALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks ignores the butterfly and stays on the road.ALTERNATE RESULT: Goldilocks arrives at the butcher shop, but it is already closed.CHOICE: Goldilocks chases the butterfly.RESULT: Goldilocks ends up deep in the woods.Notice that this alternate result is both logical and creative: It makes sense that Goldilocks would arrive at the destination for her errand if she stays on the road, but the story text doesn’t tell us where Goldilocks was going (or what the errand was!) So, we’ve gotten a little creative and we’ve decided it’s the butcher shop.We also have added a complication that suggests what the next situation might be: the butcher shop is closed, so how will Goldilocks complete her errand? Will she break in? Will she go to the butcher’s house? Will she go home and tell her mother that she can’t make her delicious meat pies after all? To be clear, you do not have to actually write a new situation or take the story any further than this alternate result. The ALTERNATE RESULT should be a short, clear present-tense sentence just like all of the others in this project, but it might be a bit longer if you introduce a complication, as we have done here.PART IVFinally, you’re going to add a couple of much more creative options to your outline. Going beyond the story, but building off of what you already wrote, what other active choices could have been available to Goldilocks? What outcome might have occurred if your Goldilocks could make these other choices?Select two SITUATIONS from your list and review the CHOICE and ALTERNATIVES that you’ve outlined for each. Then, for each SITUATION provide a new IMAGINED ALTERNATIVE that isn’t in the original story and an IMAGINED RESULT that directly results from that alternative!An example:SITUATION: Goldilocks feels tired after eating the porridge and wants to rest.ALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks returns to her errand (NOTE: This option is implied by the story since she knows she should do it)ALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks sits down in the little chairALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks sits down in the medium chairCHOICE: Goldilocks sits down in the big chairRESULT: Goldilocks discovers the chair is too hard to sit inIMAGINED ALTERNATIVE: Goldilocks looks for a coffee maker in the kitchenIMAGINED RESULT: Goldilocks brews a pot of coffee, but she can’t find any cream or sugar!Again, the “imagined result” might include a complication to suggest where the story will go next, but you don’t actually have to write any more of the story than this. In fact, we really want you to stick to these single-sentence limits!Please put your IMAGINED ALTERNATIVE and IMAGINED RESULT below Goldilocks’ original CHOICE and RESULT, as shown above.