Character types

Protagonist

Catalyst

Antagonist

Foil 

In the story/movie Divergent, the mentor is Tobias Eaten (Four)

Stone cold map

Genre: realistic fiction, crime, mystery, suspense 

Theme: taking care of others

Problems: His stepfather Vince, looking for spaces to sleep, he's homeless, Shelter, he's alone, he's freezing, doesn't have enough money, can't trust anyone, no place to go to the toilet, has no friends, people looked out on him, hygiene,  

Characters: Vince (catalyst, mean, anger, selfish, ), Link (, Shelter (trained to kill, crazy, callous, intelligent, highly organised, ironic name), Ginger (reinforces our theme, taking care of others, ), Gail (journalist, love interest, Gail is in the book as a romantic interest and also she further reinforces our theme, taking care of others) , Toya (Ginger's friend, the girl who's dad came looking for, at a restaurant talked to ginger and his friends but ignores Link)

10 conflicts:

1)Vince vs. Link (man vs. man) ORDINARY WORLD

2)Link vs. Carole (man vs. himself)

3)Link vs. Homelessness (man vs. himself)

4)Link vs. the streets of London (man vs. society) & (man vs. himself) RESOLUTION

5)Link vs. the office centre (man vs. society) absolute fail

6) Link vs. rat face (man vs. man)

7) Link's vs. Homeless man (steals his watch) (man vs. man) (man vs. society)

8)Ginger vs. Link (ginger teaches him how to be homeless)

9)Ginger vs. Shelter (man vs. man)

10)Link vs. Gail (man vs. man) Gail is the love interest

11)Shelter vs. Link (man vs. man)

Shelter is hunting Link and Link is hunting Shelter. As a result it's building up tension. The climax is in the apartment of Shelter

Link is the protagonist 

Shelter is the antagonist (the evil villain in the story) (the antagonist is the character who's in conflict with the protagonist)

Shelter is crazy for organisation | 

Ginger is the mentor (someone who shows you the way)

Foil (a character that goes through the same decisions) (mirrors the main character)

New resolution= new order

Denouement= the untying of the knot 

The Ecomomist paragraph

"The rise in rough sleeping"

Homelessness is a big issue in the world which we must try and stop as soon as possible. "The rise in rough sleeping" is one of the articles in the Economist which mostly focuses on  how the number of homeless people has increased. It  how there is a new survey by St Mungo's, a homeless charity, that puts facts and faces to a grim picture and how there are charities such as CHAIN that are trying to stop the number of people increasing. According to workers from the St Mungo's charity and other agencies around the country, rough sleeping has massively increased this year compared with last. The latest figures from CHAIN, the Combined Homeless and Information Network managed by the charity Broadway, show that 2,069 people were seen sleeping rough in London between July and September, 216 more than in the three previous months and 520 more than in the same quarter a year earlier. (East Europeans accounted for 30% of the total.) The amount of people dossing in stairways has doubled since last year and we must try to slow it down.

Sentences 101

Subject= who or what it's all about            I 

How

Verb= action verbs                                    Gave

          being verbs

How

Object=                                                     My dog

What, Where, When                                  A bone yesterday

Article notes

Compassionate= kind

Callous= mean, unfeeling (when you play the guitar and after a while your skin on your fingers will get hard)

Plight= an unfortunate or dangerous situation

Patronising= making someone feel below you

Unanimous= everyone agrees

Vociferous= absolutely not

Benign= not causing harm or damage

Accommodation= a place to live

Urban myth= 

Augmented= to make something better

Scour= to look all over

1st section Winter is the worst time to be homeless.

2nd section Do not give money 

"How do I... help rough sleepers?"+ Difference with Link paragraph

"Should I give money?"

 The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as a replacement for the radical local paper Manchester Observer, and was known as The Manchester Guardian until 1959. The article, "How do I ... help rough sleepers?" talks mostly about how winter is the worst time to be homeless and to not give money to homeless people. Winter is the worst time to be homeless because the snow will melt and since more than 2,700 people (in the UK) are sleeping covered by only a sleeping bag, blankets or cardboard and newspapers they will get wet and will not be suitable for sleeping. Giving money to homeless people is not a very good idea because they will use it to buy drugs and alcoholic beverages instead of food supplies or even clothing. It is always better to give them food or clothes than just money.

"How do  I... help rough sleepers?"

"How do I... help rough sleepers?" talks about how most homeless live in winter in England and what to and not to give them. In "Stone Cold", the author describes what happens to Link, a boy who had a terrible life with his family so he decided to leave and become homeless. They are both very similar but they still have some differences. One reason is that most homeless people are homeless because they might not have enough money to get an accommodation while Link just decided to leave his family because he couldn't handle them anymore, also before he left they gave him some money unlike most homeless people. Another reason is that a great amount of homeless people beg for money to buy drugs and drink alcohol to take their minds of the situation that they're in while Link does it to get food and try to survive. The difference between Link and other homeless people is that he decided to leave his home and he didn't waste his money on drugs but on only equipment to survive.

  

Link wasn't forced to move out.