Taming the Star Runner
by JoAnn Filer
1. Exposition
1.1. Conflict
1.1.1. Travis threatens to kill Stan.
1.2. Setting
1.2.1. A ranch in Oklahoma.
1.3. Characters
1.3.1. Travis Harris
1.3.1.1. Stan, his step dad.
1.3.1.1.1. Mom
2. Personification
2.1. Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
3. Metaphor
3.1. Comparing two unlike things using "is".
4. Simile
4.1. Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
5. Literary Devices
6. Reading Strategies
6.1. Scanning
6.1.1. Talking to The Text
6.1.1.1. Connections
6.1.1.2. Questioning
6.1.1.2.1. Predicting
7. Equestrian Jumping
8. Always had a love of reading and writing.
9. Goes to a bar, gets drunk and arrested for drinking underage.
10. The one event that changes the character and plot.
11. Climax
11.1. Travis finds out they want to publish his book.
12. Rising Action
13. Travis is forced to leave Cleveland to live with his uncle in Oklahoma.
13.1. Travis makes new friends.
14. Falling Action
14.1. Casey gets in a car crash.
14.1.1. A tornado hits the town.
14.1.1.1. The Star Runner is injured.
14.1.1.1.1. Travis gets his book published.
15. S. E. Hinton
15.1. Wrote her first novel, The Outsiders, when she was fifteen.
15.2. Started writing because she lived in upstate NY and had nothing better to do.
16. Plot
17. Resolution
17.1. Travis and his uncle come to terms.
17.1.1. Travis accepts where he is.