Beastly

Beastly

By Andrea Basile

            A curse transforms handsome but arrogant Kyle into everything he most despises...ugly people…ugly outside…a beast.  This is a contemporary retelling story of Beauty and the Beast. Kendra, a witch, puts a spell on Kyle that turns him into a creature, a creature that strikes fear into everyone he meets. The only way to reverse the spell is to get someone to love him for who he is on the inside, and seal it with true loves kiss.

            In this story the rising action is when Kyle technically has it all, the good looks, the girls, a rich father, and money. To add on to that list he also is elected for King at the Spring Fling Dance. This is the rising action because Kyle’s father isn’t very caring and Kyle doesn’t have a mother, so Kyle usually tries to fill his emptiness through winning elections and dating girls. Therefore when Kyle wins King everything seems to be better for him.

            Unfortunately, this lead to the climax. By winning King for the dance, Kyle would have to be present for the crown, therefore leading him to the dance. The dance that changes everything. Kendra, the witch, sees how evil Kyle is in the inside, by putting ugly people down below him and treating people differently on their looks. So as a punishment Kendra looks him straight in the eyes and says “Kyle, because you are so evil on the inside, people will see you for how you really are…a beast.” The spell settles over him during the night and wakes up with fur sprouting through every pore on his body. This is the climax because once he turns into a beast there’s no going back. The only way to reverse the spell is if someone loves him for who he really is. This climax affects Kyle because he’s not able to walk outside because people would probably call animal control, so he technically lives in his house.

            Kyle spending all his time in his house leads to the falling action. Since Kyle can’t speak or talk to anyone he can’t find his true love, so 2 years go by and he hasn’t even talked to a girl, therefore if Kyle doesn’t meet one soon he will stay a beast forever. His good looks will all be gone, he will live his life lonely, and he will never be able to go outside. This is what the falling action is.

            Finally resolution emerges. A drunk man breaks into Kyle’s home, Kyle gets super mad and is about to hurt the man, when the man desperately speaks “Don’t eat me! I will give you anything! Do you want drugs? Money? A girl? I can give you my daughter; do whatever you want to her! Just don’t kill me!” Kyle gets stopped when he hears that the man might give him his only daughter. “Alright” Kyle responds.”Bring your daughter to this house tomorrow morning, you may go free.” This is the resolution because since the man came to the house and offered his daughter, in the end Kyle and Lina, the daughter of the man, fall in love, breaking Kyle’s spell with true loves kiss.