The way up to heaven Roald Dahl

CHARACTERS

Mrs. Foaster

Type of character

Protagonist (main character)

Character traits

cowardly

impulsive

Fearful

Frustrated

Missing a train, plane or anything it was like a illness

Good and loving wife

Worried most of the time

The thought of being late will get her to a terrible state.

As a result a small muscle in the corner of her left eye would tremble.

Main Goal

Get to Paris to meet her grandchildren and see her only daughter and she is married with a french man

Mr. Foaster

Antagonist

Personality

risk-taker

quick-thinking

Exact timing

independent

calm

Main Goal and how he was

Show his wife how not to stress about everything. He was seventy years old and lived with his wife on a six floor house in New York City on east 62nd street with 4 servants.

Walker

Flat - Butler

Personality

kind

Main Goal

Serve and help Mrs and Mr Foaster.

SETTING

Takes place In the Foaster house in New York city, Airports and Paris

Time

morning

Winter

Weather

Catastrophic event

Foggy

Element

humidity

Bad Weather

What are the environmental reactions?

frustration

How a fear can grow into serious anxiety.

Sensory detail

Bad weather cool days

CHALLENGE

What is the main challenge in your story?

To overcome Mrs Foasters fears and anxieties She is suppose to be boarding a plane to Paris to visit her beloved daughter and grandchildren, but her husband is running late to accompany her to the airport.

Other challenge

Not to miss the flight because her husband was running late

Her flight got delayed for a day Mrs. Foster is happy to stay at the airport alone because it means she won’t miss the plane, but night falls and travelers are told to come back in the morning. Despite her fear that he will somehow keep her from boarding the flight, Mrs. Foster calls her husband. He insists that she stays at the house with him, even though the servants have already left for vacation and she went back home. The next day she went to the airport.

The next day Mrs Foaster mas ready very early to catch her flight but when they were on the way to the airport Mr Foaster told Mrs Foaster that he forgot a present he wanted to give to Elen. They went back home to find it and Mrs Foaster found it when Mrs Foaster went up the stairs of their house and there was not much time left so she decided to tell the driver to drive fast to the airport and that her husband will simply get a cab to the club. She caught her flight and felt a sense of calmness.

Got to Paris and wrote a letter to her husband each week telling everything.

Other Challenges

Getting to Paris so that Mrs. Foaster can met her 3 grandchildren. She had seen them in pictures and loved them, they meant so much to her.

MOTIVATION

Motivation

The pictures Mrs. Foaster had kept of her grandchildren for a long time.

OBSTACLES

What stands in the way of your character to accomplish his goal?

Arriving late to the airport and that the flight had been delayed.

CLIMAX

How does your main character finally solve the problem?

Not wating for her husband the next morning and finally getting to catch the plane.

OUTCOME

Brief ending for your story

Finally Mrs. Foaster gets to go to Paris to meet her grandchildren and took them for wolks and bought presents. Then she took plane weeks later back to New York city but no one was waiting for her at the airport or her house. Her place was lonely and had a terrible smell. She decided to call the elevator repair company to ask them to come fix the elevator, it seemed her husband had been stuck in the elevator for this whole time since she´d been gone and had left him alone until he finally had a tragic death inside the elevator, from anguish and devastation.