Example: Jonah, a guy who refused to accept his life situation and circumstances.
Character arc: The thing he needs grace and mercy he has to find in himself before he can give it away.
The STORY: We all want to run away from life from the people and places we hate.
Is that a realistic option? NO!
If we won't willingly confront or meet lifes challenges situations and circumstances, it will force us to do so, willingly or not.
WHAT is the SOLUTION? Jonah, tries to run away, LIFE turns AGAINST HIM, the ANTAGONIST that LIFE will OPPOSE and thwart every attempt to escape the people and places we hate and the destiny LIFE has.
THE MACRO: The other that Jonah hates is a larger picture of The MICRO: Jonah's life, himself.
Reflect your characters INNER STORY with their OUTER STORY and JOURNEY!
What small problem becomes the bigger problem externally if they can not solve it internally?
THAT is CHARACTER GROWTH the development and ARC!
WHAT is the lesson or POINT? Jonah, has to learn to LOVE the people and places he hates.
He can't do that without first loving himself. Accepting where he is at, and with whom he has to deal with in life. When he can accept his own fate, and himself, can he accept others who are different and love them exactly as they are, as God created them to be? How does he learn to do that? By learning God created him for a special purpose, and he needs to accept that fate.
Question:
If he can help himself , he can help others. Will he be able to do so?
SEE the CLASSIC STORY CHARACTER ARC?
It is the development of the human being. THAT is what STORY is all about!
If you get writers block, go back to the bible and read the stories, and LEARN from them, the CHARACTER ARC and GROWTH, both INNER and OUTER, that is the EXACT, SAME THINGS you have to do, and present in YOUR SCREENPLAYS, with YOUR CHARACTERS!
Where are they at?
What challenges are they facing?
Why is it so hard to deal with?
What is their weakness?
Where do the start out?
Where do they need to be when they finish?
WHAT INNER and OUTER GROWTH will they SHOW?
HOW are they going to show that?
Like in Jonah, he shows the macro and the microcosm of life.
The man needs to accept himself and his situation and circumstances first and love himself before he can succeed and learn to love the others that he claims are different in every way.
The Ninevah people. Different colour, creed, culture,religion, and nation.
If Jonah is going to succeed and learn anything in LIFE, he has to accept himself before he can accept others.
If he wants grace and mercy himself he has to show it to others.
LIFE, GOD the antagonist thwarts him when he runs away through the allegory of the whale, the situation and circumstance that is the catalyst for FORCING HIM to confront life and gives him NO OTHER WAY OUT he HAS TO JOURNEY TO HIS DESTINY.
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