Questions

 

1. What POV is driving the story? What central point/need/desire for your community member must be conveyed?

Overall: Violence

• Ma Sarah

  • The amount they suffered was immense

  • The rebels were inhumane

• Mama Sania

  • Struggled to survive

    • Starvation- struggle to find and keep food

    • Beating by the rebels ​​​

 

 

2. What dramatic question is organizing this narrative?

• How to do you cope with your PTSD?/How do you “comeback” after all this suffering?

 

 

3. What 5 central moments/themes must be included and why?

• Death- important part in Mama Sania’s story

• PTSD- main focus

• What higher ground has done for them

• Music- lighter moment

• Resilience

 

 4. In what order? How will you open, transition, close, etc.

• Open with Sarah’s story

• Ma Sania’s story

• Transition: How they got to the U.S.

• Suffering → today

  • Henri talking about PTSD and how it affected them

• Education- end

• Playing instruments- at the end