Sunday, February 24, 2013
theme week 5
An employee goes outside to help load a TV in a customer's car. Once he is done the customer acidently slammed the employees head with the trunk of their car when they tried to close it before he was out of the way. The customer says sorry and then goes home and the employee comes in saying his vision had blacked out for a few seconds. A manager gets on the phone with whoever deals with workplace injuries and sends the employee to the hospital just in case. The manager offers to get the licence plate of the car from the security camera in he parking lot but the employee says no, he keeps saying it was an accident and he does not want to press charges. I would if it had been me, he ended up having a bad cuncussion and had to take a few days off work because he was slurring his speach and losses his cordination. Best Buy pays for all his hospital bills and meds, still offering to help him contact the customer, but the employee still refuses. His dad wants to sue the customer but the employee still says no.
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For a narrative to really work, we need more than just a bald recitation of facts and events. The employee has to be more than a stick figure; we have to be made to care about his fate somehow, to understand his refusal or his fear of suing, or maybe to understand the BB manager's fear of a lawsuit from the employee.
ReplyDeleteBut somewhere, somehow in a narrative, there has to be a stress, a problem, an issue--an accident has to lead to something else, so that the reader isn't left just saying, 'Oh, it was an accident.'
It's good material, just needs a harder push.
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