Week 1

Grievance and Grave
CHARACTER SKETCH

OUTLINE
CHAPTER 1
Introduce protagonist and antagonist meeting up on the subway. They are close friends, and the antagonist has a friend on the subway too. His friend starts talking to the protagonist which teaches us more about who he is and what he does. The antagonist’s friend has a tattoo of a horseshoe on his neck. This tattoo is because the antagonist is the leader of the gang, but he doesn’t have a visible tattoo like his friend. The friends job is to find out about the protagonist and his wife, and when they come home. The protagonist goes to work and we learn his personality as a person. He then goes home.

CHAPTER 2
When he arrives home, he realizes that his garage door is open. Suspecting that it might be his wife, he heads toward the kitchen, when he suddenly hears a ramble upstairs, in his bedroom. He goes up quietly and cautiously. When he gets near the bedroom, he puts his head toward the door and listens very intently. He hears nothing and opens the door quietly. He finally realizes that his alarm went off and it knocks. Suddenly he hears his car turn on. Running downstairs, he only catches a man in the car seen turning around the corner. He runs toward the kitchen to phone the police when he suddenly turns the corner where a man is standing. The masked man is holding a dagger and he throws it into the heart of the protagonist.

CHAPTER 3
The masked man runs away, but a card falls out of his pocket bearing the sign of a horseshoe. The protagonist is standing there waiting to feel pain, but is just in shock without feeling anything hurt. He thinks that the knife must have missed, and in shock, he goes towards the phone and notices the card on the ground and the horseshoe and how it is very similar. He tries to phone the police but cannot grab the phone, instead his hand just hits it and doesn’t pull. It is as if he does not have enough strength to pull it. Thinking his phone might be stuck, he goes to the kitchen counter to get his cellphone. Turning the corner he steps on something. Not something, but someone. The lifeless limp body of himself.

CHAPTER 4
In a shock he goes down on the ground and inspects his own body. The end of the dagger is sticking out of him in the area of his heart. He starts to think how this could have happened and who would have done this, but he knows that he is now a ghost. No longer connected to the real words (or is he?). His wife comes home and phones the police when she realizes him on the ground. He attends his own funeral and sees everybody there that cared for him. After the funeral he realizes that maybe