The compound

The Compound by: S.A. Boden Shannon Taylor

  • Exposition 2 (Setting)

    Exposition 2 (Setting)
    Eli's dad built the compound years before it was needed, but he equipped this under ground home with a gym, a flat screen T.V. and all of the food and clothes his family would need for fifteen years underground.
  • Period: to

    Life in and very little out of the Compound

  • Exposition 3 (Character con.)

    Exposition 3    (Character con.)
    Eli's Mom- Eli's mom is a multi-talented women. She was exicited about the compound when it begain, but being down there for over six years has made her weary and deppressed.
    Lexi- Lexi is Eli's older sister. She is very talented (like her mom), and she strives in dance, music and school. She is very obedient to her father, but that might bring up a huge conflict in the future.
  • Exposition 1 (backround)

    Exposition 1 (backround)
    On Eli and Eddy's (Eli's twin brother's) birthday a "Nuclear war" broke out, Since Eli's father had already built the compound where the family fled,they all made it exept for Eddy and his grandmother. The rest of the family was to stay in the compound for fifteen more years.
  • Exposition 3 (Characters)

    Exposition 3   (Characters)
    Eli- Eli is a fifteen year old whose very mean and moody.
    Eddy- Eddy is (or was) Eli's twin brother who was said to have perished in the nuclear war.
    Terese- Eli's little sister. She is very imaginative and sweet towards everyone. She lives in her own little world of magic and never growing old.
    Eli's dad- Eli's dad is a highly trained scientist. He created the compound to keep his family safe (or did he?)
  • Rising Action 1

    Rising Action 1
    All of the compound's animals such as the cows and chickens died because their food was somehow poisined. When theese animals died Eli and his family lost there only sources of dairy products and fresh meat.
  • Rising Action 2

    Rising Action 2
    In eddition to the fresh foods processed food, like peanut butter and mountain dew, started to run low too. Eli's mom didn't want to tell her husband in fear that he would start eating the supplements.
  • Rising Action 4

    Rising Action 4
    They're father stopped holding church survices and exercising which was ounce part of is everyday routeen.
  • Rising Action 3

    Rising Action 3
    Eli found a note from his dad to their old accountant that looked like it was written only a few days before in the family chapel.
  • Rising Action 5

    Rising Action 5
    To make food more natural in the compound the family put in an indoor garden. They were using CFL bulbs as a more natural sourse of light for the plants, but those started to burn out. Also pre-packaged foods such as flour started to rot and go bad.
  • Rising Action 7

    Rising Action 7
    Eli's mom is pregnant with a nother baby to add to the supplement supply
  • Rising Action 6

    Rising Action 6
    Eli's mom wants him to visit the supplements. Theese are Eli's other syblings, but they were meant to be eaten if food were to run out.
  • Climax

    Climax
    Eli's dad has been keeping secrets to his family about him having contact to the outside world through the internet.
  • Falling Action 1

    Falling Action 1
    Eli and his mom think that either the world has recovered itself from the nuclear war or it was never harmed in the first place.
  • Falling Action 2

    Eli's dad wanted to start eating the supplements which Eli has grown close to as siblings. The supplements consist of Eli's two younger brothers one 5 years old and the other just a baby, and his little sister who is three years old.
  • Falling action 3

    Falling action 3
    Eli's dad is also going to try to clone the supplements, he also wants Elli and Lexi to start having babies (supplements) together.
  • Falling Action 4

    Eli feels trapped and is going to try and get out of the compound. He doesn't know whats out in the world, but he knows it must be better than the compound.
  • Falling Action 5

    Eli stole eddies cumputer from his "room" and went on the internet where he got a chat request from his brother Eddie. They chatted for a while and Eli found out that the nuclear war never happened and that his dad's mother was crazy. This means that Eli's is stuck in the comp[ound with a mad man
  • Resolution 1

    After Eli's dad told them that the reason he made the compound was so that his kids would never leave him he went crazy and did all he could to keep his family from finding out the code to the door outside. They finnally did and they all got outside safely exept for their father who was blown up along with the compound
  • Resolution 2

    Eli's mom gave birth to a healthy and happy baby boy.
  • Resolution 3

    Eli's whole family, including the supplements and Eli's newly found twin brother Eddy, moved to Florida where they stayed for many years.