The Elements of a Story

Short Story Element	What Is It?	Example
Plot	Is the way how is told a story, like the sequence of the story chapter by chapter…	There was a boy who played with an apple tree, then the boy grew and he almost did not play with the tree, but the tree gave him lot of thing to made him happy, finally the tree was old too but the boy came back and rest on it…
Theme	Is the main idea of the story, as a moral of the story or what story talks about …	Love is blind; the tree always gave to the boy all What it had after all…
Conflict	Is like the trouble of the principal character and how he tries to solve it…	When the boy grew he didn´t play with the apple tree and the tree was sad because it wanted they played together…
Characters	Are the people who appear at the story …	The boy, the apple tree, the boy´s wife and children…
Setting	Is when the acts take place in every part of the story …	In a forest the place when the tree is all the time
Point of view	Is how is told the story. It refers to the storyteller, his point of view and how he discloses it…	Omniscient limited because the story teller talks about a boy and a tree and how they felt through the story…