Story Elements - Child Prodigy | Tropical Island | Egg
Idea 1 - A Parrot comes across an abandoned egg in a forest on a tropical island. The egg hatches to reveal a baby Gecko. The Gecko imprints on the Parrot who is now forced to become a parental figure.
- Since Parrots a naturaly smart animals I figured this parrot could teach its expertise to the Gecko, who in turn becomes smarter than others of its kind.
- The struggle in the story wouldn't be that of the "Child Prodigy" Gecko, but instead of the parental struggles of the Parrot.
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Idea 2 - A baby Gecko abandoned by its parents decides that instead of feeling sorry for itself, it will learn from other animals in its habitat to grow and survive in the world. It gains a reputation for solving its "neighbours" problems. However one day it comes across a problem that it cannot solve, and needs the help of an unlikely sidekick to overcome it.
- The Gecko in this story isn't really much of a Child Prodigy. And I'm not so sure what the problem in the story could be as of yet for this idea.
- The Gecko would hatch from the egg at the start of the story. Or be just hatched and have the egg shells be next to it.
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Idea 3 - In a society of bird like people, discrimination has unfortunately become the norm. Our hero, a strange boy who likes to learn and have fun, decides to do something about it when the discrimination goes to far one day.
- The boy in this story would be a child prodigy, smarter than most people in the tropical island like town. His mannerisms would also be a little stranger than most, which can be a normal trait for Child Prodigies in the real world.
- The discrimination factor has yet to be decided for this story, maybe it would be by the color of their feathers, or by whether they have as many bird like features as the next person. Any suggestions for this would be welcome.
- The egg would come into this story by having the boys house be shaped like an egg.
Hey Annie - okay, my thoughts...
ReplyDeleteSo - the parrot/gecko premise has potential - but I think you need to establish some kind of evolutionary problem that the inter-species imprinting 'fixes' or changes... So (and here I'm just talking out of my proverbial) imagine that the story starts with your geckos forever being gobbled up by some other predator. The geckos always behave in one way, the predator exploits this habit, and so it goes round and round. Maybe the predator then causes the dispersal of the egg... so the gecko is brought up by parrots and learns a 'new habit' (predicated upon parrots and their behaviours etc), which, once the gecko is returned to his 'tribe', his intelligence/adaptation is able to see off/defeat the predator, and so we understand the unlikely origin story of some evolutionary leap...?
Interesting.. I quickly looked into the natural predators of geckos and found that parrots and other birds prey upon geckos. Maybe it could be a story where a parrot in this "tribe" of villains doesn't want to prey upon the Geckos anymore? and so it helps these geckos figure out ways in which to run from their predators.
DeleteSnakes are also a predator of both the geckos and parrots. Which could lead to a story of two unlikely groups forming together to defeat the enemy snakes. Though maybe this way it would be too much for a 2 minute story.