Studentene kan oppsummere og illustrere historien i en 6-cellers storyboard som fremhever utstillingen og konflikten, stigende handling, klimaks / vendepunkt, fallende handling og oppløsning.
Storyboard Tekst
x x x Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!Workers of the world, unite!
x x x
A natt dividert med Jennifer A. Nielsen
x x x
West Germany
x x x
x x x
East Germany
Berlin
EKSPONERING / KONFLIKT
August, 1961
13
RISING ACTION
A Night Divided is set during the Cold War when the Berlin Wall was built. East Germany was controlled by the communist government of the Soviet Union while West Germany was controlled by the United States, France and Great Britain. Young Gerta is caught in the middle of the conflict when her father and brother are inadvertently trapped on the Western side while she, her mother, and brother are trapped in the East.
CLIMAX / vendepunkt
On Sunday morning, August 13, 1961, Gerta awoke to discover that a wall of barbed wire had been built through Berlin to separate East and West. Her father, Aldous and brother Dominic were trapped on the other side. Devastated, her mother, brother Fritz, and her were left in the East with no way to contact them.
FALLENDE HANDLING
Historien blinker fremover 4 år. Veggen er nå 12 meter høy og beskyttet. 12 år gamle Gerta savner faren og broren og hater muren som fengsler Øst-Berlin, frykten og mangelen på frihet. Hun gir ikke uttrykk for dette helt til noen unntatt broren Fritz. Selv hennes beste venn Anna oppfordrer henne til å tie. En dag spionerer hun Dominic og faren på den andre siden av veggen, og faren ser ut til å sende henne en melding!
VEDTAK
Gerta uncovers the meaning of her father's message: a way to escape East Berlin is by digging a tunnel from the basement of a building that is against the wall. It is a perilous plan that could result in them getting killed, but Gerta and Fritz take the extreme risks to dig the tunnel in secret. They try to finish before Fritz is forced into the army. They hide their efforts by using the dirt from the tunnel to plant a garden.
Gerta and Fritz discover that their father and brother have been tunneling from the other side. They convince their mother to escape and bargain with an East German guard, Officer Muller to join them with his family. While they make their dangerous escape, Anna also joins them with her family. They are almost through the tunnel when they are discovered and race to freedom with guards shooting at them.
Officer Muller sacrifices himself by pushing Gerta out of harms way. He is tragically shot and killed. His wife and child, along with Anna's family and Gerta and her family are able to make it to the other side of the tunnel to West Berlin and to freedom. They are all overjoyed. While it is true that the sun always rises in the east, Gerta feels as though it rose in the west and ended their long, dark night.