The Escape
© 2001
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| Technical Aspects | |
| Story length: | 2,599 words/8 pages double spaced |
| Voice: | First person, past tense |
| Genre: | Young-adult fiction or children's fiction |
| Copyrighted: | © 2001 |
| Story information | |
| Main character: | Kelly |
| Character description: | A rising sixth grader who's about to move to California |
| Supporting characters: | Brittany, Susan (Susie), Jerome, Tyler, and Mark, her pals |
| Setting: | Modern times, set in a bowling alley, many flashbacks to younger days |
| General Plot | |
| Kelly is disturbed by the idea of growing up. Her friends' eagerness to act more adult bothers her, and she reminisces in a bowling alley about their past together and how she'd rather move across the country (which she will be doing) and totally lose touch with them than have to see them grow up. | |
| Information, inspiration, and other notes | |
| This story is about 85% autobiographical. I did not have a "group" as described in this story but I had similar feelings when I moved to another state at the same stage of my life, and many of the occurrences (with specifics removed) are taken directly out of my past. | |
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