Short Story Help Please~
I am required to write a short story in English class with a few requirements. It has to someway involve a minivan as whole or part of the setting. It has to someway involve a quarter and there must be conflict. The summary of the story is my current assignment and I am stuck in what should happen at the end, any ideas? Heres what I have so far: A man who owns nothing but a quarter is waiting at a gas station to steal a car and sell it. He spots a minivan and keeps an eye on it. The owner gets out and goes into the gas station, leaving the keys in the car. The man rushes into the driver seat and speeds away. After a while he twists around to see if the owner left anything worth money in the car, but what he finds is a child sleeping in the backseat.
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Posted by ohmygah Mar 13th, 2013 at 9:46PM
Ooh, that's interesting. If this is just a summary of the story you are supposed to write it is provoking enough by ending right there. The main idea sounds like it would be about the moral conflict of the thief now being a kidnapper and if his morals can make him do the right thing. Maybe the quarter is his lucky quarter that he flips before he decides what to do.
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Reply by Gingersnaps1 Mar 13th, 2013 at 10:13PM
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Posted by Psilo Mar 13th, 2013 at 9:35PM
It all started when our star, Gingersnaps1, woke up in a cornfield. It was the second time it had happened. Feeling overwhelmingly pleased, Gingersnaps1 attacked a paper clip, thinking it would make her feel better (but as usual, it did not). Rather abruptly, she realized that her beloved Quarter was missing! Immediately she called herundefined, Billy. Gingersnaps1 had known Billy for (plus or minus) 200,000 years, the majority of which were sassy ones. Billy was unique. He was intelligent though sometimes a little... funny-smelling. Gingersnaps1 called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.
Billy picked up to a very calm Gingersnaps1. Billy calmly assured her that most kittens yawn before mating, yet puppies usually earnestly yawn *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Gingersnaps1. Why was Billy trying to distract Gingersnaps1? Because he had snuck out from Gingersnaps1's with the Quarter only six days prior. It was a sassy little Quarter... how could he resist?
It didn't take long before Gingersnaps1 got back to the subject at hand: her Quarter. Billy turned red. Relunctantly, Billy invited her over, assuring her they'd find the Quarter. Gingersnaps1 grabbed her piano and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Billy realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the Quarter and he had to do it randomly. He figured that if Gingersnaps1 took the Viper, he had take at least seven minutes before Gingersnaps1 would get there. But if she took the Minivan? Then Billy would be really screwed.
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Reply by Gingersnaps1 Mar 13th, 2013 at 10:12PM
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