Narrative Structure

Act 1- Set Up

The protagonist, Ryan Taylor has been told that he needs to write a new book for his publisher. Ryan Taylor thinks that going back to his home town of Brightfalls may spark inspiration for his book. Ryan Taylor travels to Brightfalls and now sees it how it is now, rundown and basically uninhabited.

Act 2- Confrontation

Ryan Taylor is told that the town started to go downhill when he left as child. Ryan Taylor believes that everything that has gone wrong because of something that has happened in his past. Ryan begins to investigate what happened in his childhood and why this caused his family to leave. Ryan thinks that he could use this opportunity the write his book using his personal experience from investigating the problem. As he tries to find out what had happened he, he thinks he is going nowhere with his investigation but he finds a woman who has lived in the town for her entire life. She begins to tell him that a terrible incident in a home within the forest and she also tells him that no one has been to the forest after the terrible incident.

Act 3- Resolution

Ryan Taylor decides to that the only way to discover what has happened to the town and the secrets of his childhood is to go into the forest and see the scene of the incident that occurred as he was living there as a childhood. Ryan is warned by a number of people that he should not go into the forest as a horrible secret from his childhood. Ryan ignores these warnings and travels into the forest. As Ryan walks through the forest, he begins seeing apparitions running through the forest with him. Ryan eventually arrives at the house that was located in the forest and sees that it has been abandoned. Ryan decides that he should investigate inside the house and when he does, he finds pictures of himself as a child but he is being held by people that he doesn’t believe he knows. However, a man follows him in to the house and begins to tell him the story of what happened those many years ago and he explains to Ryan that the apparitions are Ryan’s real family and that the man murdered them and that Ryan’s return was always going to happen. Ryan starts questioning everything that has happened and the mysterious man slams the house door shut.