Rapunzel

Story Structure – Parts of a Story

Title of Work: Rapunzel

1. Exposition: A Man and woman want to have a baby, rapunzel is introduced/ powerful Enchantress with a very tall wall surrounding the area.

Character: Enchantress, Rapunzel, King's Son

Setting: Deep in a forest. An unborn child is promised to an enchantress, Dame Gothel, as payment for a debt. When the child, Rapunzel, turns 12 years old, the witch shuts her away in a one-room tower in the middle of the woods with no stairway or door and only one window

2. Conflict: Rapunzel wants to leave but she can't because Gothel has her pretty much locked up in a tower with no entrance

3-4. Rising Action: List some events that occur before the climax.

A. A prince hears rapunzel singing

B. Prince Finds out how to get into to tower

C. Prince proposes to rapunzel

5. Climax: The Gothel Finds out about the prince and traps him but he escapes but is blind from falling on thorns that got in his eyes

6-7. Falling Action: List some events that occur after the climax.

A. The Prince wanders through forest blind

B. The Prince eats berries and other easy to find edible fruits

C. The Prince ends up in a desert