Thursday, 7 March 2013

Narrative


Exposition - Protagonist
We are introduced to the protagonist who is a young immigrant girl, Adriana, from Albania and is 19 years old. She comes to the country to try and make a better life for herself and her family back home. Her life in Albania affected her deeply as she lived in poor conditions and her mum was a prostitute to feed her and her other siblings. She managed to find someone who could get her to Britain and a job, but this person ended up being her bosses colleague. She is uneducated and had no money so was unable to come in to the country legally. 

Agents of Change - Antagonist
The antagonist is the girls boss's son, named Steve. Hes dad lets him run a laundry factory, but also does other illegal jobs inside the factory, such as hiring illegal workers and exploiting them by paying much less than normal wage. He is very abusive and does not respect the needs and wants of his workers. He takes them for granted to feed his own personal needs. 

Conflict Complication
After a month of her working there, Adriana begins to realise Britain is no where near as good as what she was expecting. She feels as if she may as well of stayed in Albania as there she would of probably been treated with more respect. At this point, she is unknown and has no one at all to talk to. She is earning just enough to pay rent and feed herself, but doesn't have enough money to send home. One day she is late for work and Steve starts to abuse her. This triggers off the main problem and Steve starts to show his true colours.

Elaboration

Now Adriana's aim is to get out of this workplace, however she won't be able to yet, because she is renting off of her boss's son steve. As she is planning to try and get away, Steve realises and sets out to punish Adriana once again, but this time a lot worse to try and scare her so she does what she is told and so she doesnt disobey him again.
Adriana starts to make some friends around the workplace, even though this is not aloud and tries to get them in on her plan to sabotage Steve and get rid of him. However, it isn't easy as they are unable to call the police, as they will be sent back to their country, and many of the workers are scarred of him and dont want to get hurt so they try to stay in hes good books.
As she doesn't get a lot of money, her mum gets angry at her and tells her how much she is struggling back at home. This puts a lot of stress on Adriana and makes her feel like she is letting everyone down.She tries to do little jobs, such as prostitution, every now and then when she was in desperate need of money, and sent what she could back to Albania so her mum was happy with her. All whilst this is going on Adriana gets really close to a colleague Blerim and he joins in the plan to try and get away. This relieves stress off Adriana as she no longer feels alone and has hope. She is also gaining feelings for Blerim, making her feel more secure as he is the only one supporting her in this time of need.


Climax & Resolution

After six months of working in the laundry, Adriana is close in succeeding in what she aimed to do. Steve started getting very cautious at this point as he couldn't afford to lose any workers. This is when hell breaks loose. Steve becomes very aggressive and demanding. She tries to argue back but Steve has none of it and keeps her behind when all the workers go home. Blerim realises Adriana is missing and goes in the laundry to look for her. When he walks in he find Steve trying to sexually abuse her. This angers Blerim and he starts hitting Steve with a found piece of metal. They fight for a little until Steve falls on a bench side, cracking hes head open that kills him. Blerim hides the body round the back of the laundry hoping that no one will ever find it.

Coda
Adriana and Blerim find work somewhere else where they get paid a decent amount, and start making better lives for themselves. The ending will show them moving into a flat together in a better area, and them living their normal, average boring lives. 

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