--- tags: Eileen --- # Tough Journal ## Author Eileen ### Theme Take Responsibility for Your Life ### Title Tough Journal ### Character #### Character: Ella Goal: save the fairy tales world Conflict : Encountered frustration Attitude : Negative to Positive Change : Be responsible ## Plot ### scene 1 : Ella is a timid girl who lives with her aunt who has a private library. Her aunt tells her to never read a certain book because it will cause trouble, but she is still attracted to it. Ella reads it when her aunt is out of town. She discovers it is a magic book. She can enter and exit the fairy tale land of the book when she reads this book loudly. Ella can choose to enter any scene of the story. ### scene 2 : She is so excited and tells her friends about all of the characters she becomes friends with. She enjoys becoming friends with princesses. Ella has a bold idea because she knows what will happen to each story, maybe she can help the princesses avoid their troubles in the story. ### scene 3 : However, things never go as Ella planned. She steals the poisonous apple from the Queen’s room in 'Snow White'. Snow lives and becomes the queen. Unexpectedly, she is cruel to the people. In the meantime, her aunt finds out about the problems due to the content of all the fairy tale books being changed. This magic book controls all fairy tale books. The children who read 'Snow White' are so scared and can not stop crying. The poster of the 'Snow White' changes into a violent design also. ### scene 4 : Ella feels afraid and avoids facing her mistakes. Aunt finds Ella , tries to persuade Ella to face her mistakes and fix these problems, but Ella refuses. Her aunt tells her what is happening to the current books content: Cinderella kills the stepmother and becomes a villian in the town. Pinocchio can not change into a real boy anymore. He is addicted to playing on Pleasure Island, and does not care that Geppetto is heartbroken at all. All of this is happening because of what Ella did. ### scene 5 : Aunt keeps encouraging Ella to think about the children in the world. The fairy tale land will be saved if she finds the author Grimm and asks him to rewrite the stories, otherwise the children in the world won't be able to read the great stories again. Ella thinks about that whole night and decides to look for Grimm on the next day. ### scene 6 : On the way to look for Grimm, Ella loses her way, the night comes, Ella feels so scared. She starts to tremble and tries to go back. ### scene 7 : The book falls down, Ella picks the book up and remembers what her aunt had said. Ella realizes that she can’t escape, this is her responsibility. Finally, she finds the way after a few rounds around town, the Grimm's house is right in front of her. Unfortunately, Grimm is on an adventure, no one can figure out where he is. Ella is exasperated and desperate. She decides to stay in Grimm’s house and go home tomorrow morning. ### scene 8 : At night, the book starts flashing the number 101 and starts to look like it is asking her to follow the number. Ella looks around to see if she can find the numbers. She sees a door with the number on it and she enters the room. There is a notebook and a pen on a table in this room. ### scene 9 : Ella picks the pen and doodles a flower on the paper, the flower becomes real. She realizes this is a magic pen and she hopes the pen can help her rewrite the fairy tale stories, to help the characters she loves avoid the troubles they have had. Ella starts to rewrite the book without any hesitation. ### scene 10 : The posters hanging on the theater walls change back into the original content one by one.