• What pov is driving this story? What point, central desire for your subject most be conveyed?

 

The driving point of view is the hardships she had to overcome on her journey to help herself and her family. Ma Mary focused mostly on her travel from Liberia to Ghana and what it was like walking to the border. She shared the struggles to get food, safe shelter and money.  Ma Mary’s central driver in the story was her will to survive.

 

 

• What dramatic? Is organizing narrative?

 

The dramatic part driving her story is her self reliance and resilience without any support.  She did not receive any support on her journey to safety because she never was claimed as a refugee.  She not only had to provide for herself but also for her children while they were trying to find refuge.  She had to work even harder to provide for her family since she did not receive any life necessities since she was not accepted into a refugee program

 

• Identify 5 central moments/themes that must be included and why?

  • Asked to leave her home

  • Grandchild raped

  • Put in jail and hit

  • No food/ support because she is not a refugee

  • Being rescued to go to the US

 

• In what order? How will you open the story? Transitions? Close?

 

Intro : Life in Liberia

• Business Women ( closing pt 4 )

• Civil war overview (pt 1)

• Left the house (pt 3/4)

• Food /shelter (pt 6)

Middle: CLIMAX

• Rape (pt 7)

• Arrest (pt 8)

• Arrives at camp in Ghana - no food- no shelter ( Life in Ghana pt 2-6)

• Arriving back in Liberia after 12 years of living in Ghana

Ending: Coming to US/ Life Currently

• Relocation of kids, who sent for her ( closing pt 1 )

• Arrived July 2014: Living in providence ( Intro pt 1)

• Higher Ground ( Closing pt 5)

• What do you want for your future

FIN