Story Club —Let’s Create Monsters

What roles do monsters play in stories? They can represent the opposite qualities of a hero. Voldemort chooses power over friendship, chooses to stand alone. Harry is all about friendship and acting from love.

A monster can be misunderstood. The fiery lava goddess in Moana becomes benevolent when her heart is returned to her. In my book, the Ice Giant becomes a friend when she admits her lonelines, asks for help and Elika helps her.

At yesterday’s story club, we took qualities of known animals, plants, things, and based our monsters on them.

Here we have Shadow, based on a hawk, and a massive Fire Phoenix rising from campfires.

Gateau-Colossus made us shiver … a many-eyed snake cake monster hiding in the bakery.

Monsters give our characters a chance to shine. To defeat fear, perhaps befriend it. Our stories gain tension and we can be creative with how the monster is defeated. Perhaps a Hero Fork could be called upon for the Gateau?