Brainstorming : Three Side Story Assignment

           The assignment for this week in Mr. Garrioch’s class is the ‘Three Person Story’ - which is an assignment to write the same story in three different people’s view. After getting a horrible score on the last assignment, the Catfish Review, I brainstormed hard and long (?) to make an outstanding ‘Three Person Story’.

             The first thing that came into mind was as always, the ‘triangle love relationship’ between two guys and one girl. This topic was quite tempting because I actually saw and experienced the similar situation so closely before. Also, I had an experience of writing about love story in Mr. Garrioch’s class last semester (which received a good score).

             The next topic that came into my mind was a story concerning basketball and the team. I thought about making the three people in the story as the captain of the team, the ace of the team, and the least valuable player on the team. In addition, I thought of a different setting such as a model student playing sport, defying his or her parents’ scolds.

             Another topic that I thought about was named the “Mission Impossible”, dealing the episode about cheating in the test. I planned to set my three perspectives as the cheater, the teacher, and the bystander. I thought this was a good idea since I believed that I could give enough emotion and tension to each character in the story.

             The last topic that I thought was about the adopted boy or girl searching for his or her real parents. If I actually choose this topic, I’m going to set three perspectives as the adopted boy (the main character), the real parents, and the parents who adopted the boy. I think this is a pretty good topic since I can merge in some seriousness, sincerity, and heartwarming effect in the story.

             These are the topics that I brainstormed for the topic. I dropped the second topic after brainstorming and now I’m balancing between the other three. Each of them has their own strong points and weak points. I plan to ponder over for next one or two days and start writing the story.