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tags: Zixiao Yu
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# Tough Journal： Another Line

## Author
Zixiao Yu

### Theme

concern for others

### Title

Tough Journal

### Character
#### Character: Ella
Ella has always admired the popular girl in school. She wishes she was popular, but she is not popular, because she is selfish. She is a smart and very creative girl that always comes up with fresh ideas, but she never wants to share her good ideas and help others.
Her aunt has a magic book which is the source of all stories. Readers can directly communicate with the characters in the book.

Goal: selected as main character in the stage show

Conflict :

Attitude :

Change : Selfish

Need: Help princess

### Backgorund

## Plot

### scene 1: [0 0 0 0]-> [1 1 0 0]

Ella's parents brought Ella to her aunt for a weekend due to work. Ella's aunt has a magic book.

### scene 2: [1 1 0 0]-> [1 2 1 0]
Ella told her aunt that her school was about to stage a stage play. If she can be elected as the main character (princess), she will surely become popular in school. Ella hopes her aunt will lend her the magic book so she can learn how to be a princess from the princess in the book. But her aunt rejected her because it was too dangerous for the characters in the book. They quarreled over this.

### scene 3: [1 2 1 0]-> [1 1 2 0]
Ella's friends told Ella that the person who was going to play the prince in the stage play was Mike (the boy Ella liked). This made Ella want to be elected as a princess even more, so she went to her aunts to borrow the book, but was rejected by her aunt again. Ella's aunt needed to take a trip downtown. Before she left, she warns Ella to not touch the book.

### scene 4: [1 1 2 0]-> [2 1 1 1]
Ella sneaked into the aunt's library and opened the magic book. Ella found a princess and asked her to teach herhow to play the role of princess, even though the princess was busy helping her family resist threats from enemy countries. The princess asked Ella to help her solve the threats to her kingdom first, and Ella agreed.

### scene 5: [2 1 1 1]-> [2 3 2 1]
Although all the characters in the story asked Ella to keep the story as it is, Ella directly modified the story and erased the enemy countries in order for the princess to teach her role of princess faster. Ella knew her aunt would definetly "kill" her if she noticed it. However, Ella believed she could restore everything later.

### scene 6: [2 3 2 1]-> [2 3 2 1]
After that, the princess used teacing acting as a bargaining chip and constantly asked Ella to help her realize her various wishes. In order to fulfill these wishes, Ella continually revised the content of the book. Thus the other characters in the story suffered many disasters. But Ella found that what the princess taught her was not like what a real princess would do in her memory. Because Ella had revised the story too many times, she couldn't remember the original story and restore it. However, Ella couldn't stop right now. She has prepared to be scolded by his aunt.

### scene 7: [2 3 2 1]-> [2 2 3 3]
Ella's aunt noticed the changes in the story and knew that Ella had modified the story in the magic book. Aunt rushed back and stopped Ella from continuing to modify the story (also scolded Ella). Her Aunt told Ella of the disaster that happened to other characters in the story because of her selfishness, and Ella realized her mistakes.

### scene 8: [2 2 3 3]-> [3 1 4 3]
Ella's aunt revised the storybook and told Ella that every character in the story is equally important. Ella still wanted the princess to teach her to perform how to act like a princess. Ella's aunt knew she couldn't stop Ella, and she decided to let Ella do it but the right way.

### scene 9: [3 1 4 3]-> [4 1 4 4]

Ella once again helped the princess, but this time she only helped the princess in the story's limited role. Although it took a long time to solve the problem, it did not destroy the original story. Thrughout process, Ella also learned how to play the role of a princess. This helped her win the princess role for the school stage play.