Outline for your book

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1. NAME OF HIGH SCHOOL
2. TOPIC: NAME OF THE BOOK
3. ENGLISH PROJECT
4. INTEGRANTS
5. COURSE AND FIELD EXAMPLE:. 1ST ACCOUNTING
6. NAME OF THE TEACHER
7. CITY AND COUNTRY
8. YEAR
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SECOND PAGE
- OPENING IMAGE
- PROTAGONIST INTRO
- INCITING INCIDENT
- PLOT POINT 1
- CONFLICT AND CHARACTER ENCOUNTERS
- MIDPOINT
- POSITIVITY AND DIFFICULTY
- DARK MOMENT
- CLIMAX
- RESOLUTION
- FINAL IMAGE

Opening image

As I said before the name of the book is " the accidental story" whose novel was written by Anne Tyler.
The review of the sorry could be described with nine words: Tragic experiences, marriage, lifestyles,
travels, family, guidance, safety, danger, and move on. The cover shows the direction of the characters:
a man in the center of the photo and two women between him, which is an opening for the introduction
that we'll show.
Protagonist intro
The main character is Macon Leary, a middle-aged man whose life and the tragic death of his son have
shattered his marriage. He had plummeted into a state of depression, making it nearly impossible for
him to function. He is a man who permanently lived in his protective shell, he had an obsession with
order, safety, and danger to the point of writing a guidebook to avoid unfamiliar or unexpected
situations. He wanted to overcome his depression and open up to the outside world and at the end of
the book he takes control of his life and decides to become an active participant in the world.

Inciting incident
Macon whose only son was murdered during a holdup in a Burger Bonanza about a year before the book
begins, causes their life together (Macon and her wife Sara) to be full of melancholy and grief, this
incident makes his wife leaves him. He turned into a state of depression that he will have to face and
overcome.

Plot point 1
At the beginning of the book Macon and her wife Sarah were in the middle of a driving journey in heavy
rain, she said he should stop the car but he didn’t hear her, she started to annoy and declares that she
wanted a divorce due to his indifference for her son’s death. This causes Macon to start a life without his
wife and got used to his difficult new lifestyle.

Conflicts and character encounters

In the second chapter, he knew Muriel Pritchett, a divorced, funny, and lively woman in her thirties who
looked after her dog because he had some problems with the place he rented during his trip to London.
This woman was totally different from him due to her friendly side and that was evidenced when she
carries on him to keep in touch using the excuse of problems with his pet or something else to the point,
she called him. On the other hand, we had the Lourey family whose members are the siblings of Macon,
starting with Charles, the oldest, and then Porter, the next brother, who had failed in their marriages
and come back grandparents’ home the place where Macon is staying in with the lie there with his
broken left leg in plaster and be looked after by Rose, the sister whose labor is looking after of her
brothers’ doing housework. In addition to this, we found the boss of Macon Julian, who falls in love with
Macon’s sister and in my perception is a true friend of his, and last but not less important his dog
Edward who was a pretty pet with some problems in his behavior that without want it help to Macon
find a new path in his life and that is like a mirror with Macon. And finally the support characters like
Sarah the ex-wife and the person he always loved, Ethan his lost son and the cause of his impasse,
Alexander the son of Muriel who takes the figure of Ethan but when time passes Macon and Ethan
develops a good relationship like friends, and the other characters like Muriel’s grandmother, and the
neighbors who are the characters that didn't have so much interaction with the protagonist.
Midpoint
After Macon stayed with his dog Edward in Lourey’s house remembered the life that he had with his
siblings and now how he had a failure in his marriage same as his other brothers, he started to analyze
the life of each one and how they had things in common as the order, a quiet and security life, and
thought after all time anyone changed. Time passes and behavior of Edward was worst and that was
why he decided to call Muriel Pritchett the trainer dog to start training Edward. While Edward got
trained, they were getting to know each other and obviously, Muriel was more talkative than Macon,
talking about her ex-husband, school, and dog-training experiences. Afterward in one of the lessons,
they had a discussion that include the son of Muriel and a misunderstanding about hiding him and being
an unnatural mother. They hadn't talked to each other but due to the anxiety of Macon increasing and
the behavior of the dog also, to the point that her brother wanted to shoot him during one of Macon's
travels, he didn't have other options but calling Muriel to seek out help. That was their lives were found
again and were getting closer even making Macon visit with frequency to Muriel and met with her son
Alexander.

Positivity and difficulty

The positive point in the story was found when Macon step by step was overcome his fears, his anxiety
about the world, and how he was with a cover in order to control his feelings that were disappearing
little by little when he was opening up to Muriel. He is beginning to enjoy people, something he has
never done before. He develops a free attitude to life in general, the difficulties in the novel were how
he reaches that, he needed to leave the past behind and tell the story and true feelings about his son
Ethan, how was very difficult to live without him, and how instead of surviving he needed to be started
off living his life no matter what other said, thinking about the changes are good, on the contrary of his
family and their thoughts during all their lives and what for the same reason they didn't want to Muriel
near him.
Dark moment
As the book opens, Macon is severely depressed, and the darkest time was the scene where Macon
must identify his son's body and the scene where he first explains his grief to Muriel. Apart from how
Macon overcome his son’s death, the romance dark moment was between Muriel and Sarah. On one
side is Muriel the woman who broke the ice of Macon and force him to change, and on the other hand,
is Sarah the ex-wife of Macon, there was a crisis between Macon and Muriel because she wanted to get
married to him but he didn’t, due to the insecurities about the feelings about SARAH, furthermore,
when she returned asked him for a second opportunity. All these circumstances only increase Macon's
hesitations about what thing is right and what path he must choose.

Climax

With the excuse of problems in Sarah's apartment. Macon came back to their house and live together,
she usually said she is too old to change and Macon started to realize that he is regressing, and later that
afternoon he ''began to believe that people could, in fact, be used up--could use each other up, could be
of no further help to each other and maybe even do harm to each other''. Through no fault of her own,
Sarah is now doing harm to Macon and even though he tried to live with Sarah on one of his trips he
found Muriel who remembers that life with her and how never change if he continues in that way.
Resolution
Macon finally thinks about all the things he has done, his marriage, his two jobs, his time with Muriel, his
return to Sarah - all these had simply happened to him. He couldn't think of a single important act that
he had done himself. That's when he took the decision of saying goodbye to Sarah and finding Muriel.
What happened with the others? The boss of Macon got married to her sister Rose and started to live
with her brothers. We don’t know how Sarah ends because the book didn’t mention it and about Muriel
and Macon, apparently, they got married and lived together with Alexander and Edward because when
he arrived at Muriel's house, he could imagine that one due to the wedding confetti.
Final image

When Macon took the decision of going behind Muriel doesn't matter if he is lost, with his back hurting,
or traveling without a detailed plan, showed how he has determined to brave life's pain and travel his
own way. When his taxicab passes the waving boy on the street, Macon has managed to let Ethan go.
The final message for me is that even if you were being knocked about by the waves of life you must
move on, even if you regret the decisions you took always will be better than don't do anything, it is
necessary the change. Nothing is too late or anyone is too old to begin again we could learn to do things
differently.