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The platform

In a dystopian near future with absence of resources, people can freely to go into
The Hole, a vertical underground jail where after an interview to check the possible
admission, the volunteer passes a determined time in exchange to acquire more
social status. Hoping to get an approved title, Goreng wakes up in the level 48 to
discover The Hole's structure: only one cell of 6 meters height (so-so 20 feet) per
level with a rectangular hole in the middle in all them, used by The Hole's
administration to descend a too rectangular floating platform with the food for all
prisoners, downing from level 0 (the restaurant in the surface where food is
cooked) to the bottom, standing 2 minutes per level. With veteran Trimagasi as
cell's partner, Goreng learns eventually The Hole's main rules: 1st, each inmate
arrives The Hole with a personal object to choose from the exterior; 2nd, the
inmates can't keep food off the platform under penalty to die by extreme heat or
cold; and 3rd, one time per month all inmates are asleep using gas in order to
exchange all them of level. But when a month later they both wake up in the level
171, Goreng learns for his horror that all the inmates divide in four types: those in
the upper levels who eat with more time to think, those in the mid-levels who eat
the rests of the food left in the platform, those in the lower levels whose don't eat
after platform arrives empty becoming in demented and starved killers, and finally
those who jump to the void by the hole, crashing against lower levels to being
cannibalized by the savage inmates. Saved to be killed by Trimagasi in the last
minute by Miharu, a silent and violent young girl who time and time again descends
in the platform looking for her missing child forced to be in The Hole, Goreng starts
lose his mind in a place without morality or humanity, passing from level 23 to 252
with Imoguiri (Goreng's interviewer and an ingenuous about the reality of The Hole)
as new partner to finally arrive in level 6 with Baharat as lately partner, who tries
with a rope scaling to level 0. But Goreng tells Baharat a better plan to leave The
Hole.Goreng wakes up in part of The Hole, a place where food is sent down with
The Platform. As people above become selfish and eat whatever they want, people
below get less. Goreng learns from the other cellmates that the people below can
fall into madness and sanity loss turning into bloody cannibalism, so he starts to
get into a plan for The Hole's people.
Theme: This story is about entertaining and bringing important messages.
Climax: All stories move. They rise and fall. Movement and change is what makes a good
story good, and if the story isn’t moving for too long, there’s probably something
wrong.
Conflict: It entertains by creating relatable contexts in emotional, dangerous, or exciting ways

Setting: Prison building

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