Alien+Story

Alien Story Here you can find samples of the things we have worked on in class to help you with your alien story!

Outline Sample: ** Close Encounters of the Third Kind **

** I – General Introduction ** A - Strange events are happening all over the world B - UFO is said to have appeared in the Mojave desert in New Mexico C - Indians start to chant a tune they have heard coming from "above". D - A team of people are investigating all these phenomena

** II – Main Character Introduction: ** A - Roy Neary (main character) 1 - He is driving at night when his car loses power 2 - He is an electric company technician 3 – All electrical things start to go crazy around him 4 – He sees strange lights in the sky 5 – After they leave, everything goes back to normal

B - Barry Guiler (6 year old boy) 1 - Wakes up because all his toys start playing by themselves 2 - He goes outside by himself 3 - He mother sees him and runs after him 4 – When she finds him he sees very confused

** III – Story begins: ** A – The main characters try to go on with their normal lives but can’t 1 - Barry repeats a song over and over again. 2 – His mother begins to dream of another world 3 – Roy starts making sculptures of a mountain he has never seen out of anything – mashed potatoes, shaving cream, mud…

B – Roy’s wife Teri is getting more and more frightened of her husband 1 – She takes the kids and leaves him 2 – Now Roy can spend all of his time on his strange scultures 3 – One day on TV Roy sees the mountain he has been sculpting 4 - Roy decides to make the journey there immediately.

C - Barry has disappeared 1 - He had been kidnapped by a UFO. 2 – His mom tries to prevent it but it is useless 3 - Barry is attracted by the lights and enters the spaceship 4 – His mother tells the police and newspapers 5 – They think she is crazy.

** IV – Middle of the Story ** A – Roy arrives at the mountain 1 – All of the people are being evacuated by the military 2 - Roy finds Barry`s mom who wants to go to the same place than him. 3 – They secretly get past the military

B – Roy and Barry`s mom hide to see what is going on 1 – There are many scientists there 2 – The UFO flies very close to where they are hiding 3 – The UFO plays a song and the scientists play the song too 4 – It is the same tune which Barry and the Indian people sang 5 – The UFO and the scientist seem to be having a musical conversation 6 – A huge UFO appears next to the small ones and the music stops

** V – Ending: ** A – The UFO opens. 1 – All of the people who had disappeared (including Barry) come out 2 – The all look healthy and happy. 3 - A creature appears followed by 20 more aliens. a. - They have got no hair b. - they are naked c. - they are as tall as a child. 4 - One of the aliens repeats the musical tune.

B - Some volunteers, including Roy, go into the UFO with the aliens. 1 - No aliens stay on Earth. 2 - The spacecraft and their occupants all fly away with the volunteers.

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