Week 11 Story Planning: Aaron's Truth

So I am having trouble coming up with a good ending for the story I wrote last week, Aaron Discovers the World. I thought I would try the story planning option to see if that would help me nail down some ideas. I have established that Aaron and the citizens of Carcera live in a dystopian world, confined to the dome in which they have always lived, and ruled by the force of an oligarchical, self-appointed committee. There are robots who operate as guards, and this makes them difficult to circumvent. My ultimate goal is for Aaron to devise a way to expose the Mind of the Six and free the people of Carcera. There are a few ways that could happen, I suppose. Aaron could get intentionally captured by the Mind of the Six, and tell them he knows the truth. They could then confirm that he is right and admit to keeping the people prisoner for power and personal gain. All the while, Aaron has a hidden video camera, and is broadcasting to every single screen in the city. This leads to mutiny, and Aaron leads the people out of the city. I would have to explain how Aaron is captured, how the people take care of the guard robots, and how people deal with the Mind of the Six. Another possibility is to have Aaron save the people by disabling the robots with the computer that controls them. Once the guards have been disabled, he could come over every loudspeaker in the city, and explain that they have been lied to. Because this is a dystopia, and I have not established the extent of technology, I am thinking he could cause a map to the outside world to appear on every screen in the city. That could lead people to discover the same path he did and ultimately escape. I would like to write the demise of the Mind of the Six, but I am not sure what that would look like if I went with this option. I could combine the two story lines into one. Aaron could get captured after planting a bug in the city's main computer. The bug could be time delayed, so he makes it to the chamber of the Mind of the Six before the robots shut down and the screens start broadcasting his hidden camera. That would make for a more well-rounded story. I originally wanted Aaron to die as a symbolic sacrifice for the rescue of the rest of the people, but the more I think about it the more I do not think it is possible.
I read the Alice in Wonderland unit this week, and while I enjoyed it very much, I find that world to be very different from the one I have created. I could model the leader of the Mind of the Six after the Queen of Hearts. As she orders Aaron's execution, the robots shut off just before removing his head. Aaron could find that the computer room where he plants the bug is just as confusing as the room full of doors in which Alice finds herself. Symbolically, the door Aaron discovered to the outside, is almost a perfect representation of the door Alice finds. They are both hidden, and they both lead to a beautiful world on the other side. As you can see, I have a lot of options. By this time next week, I will have narrowed it down to choose the best plot line.


Photo of Server Room at the National Archives (UK), found on Wikimedia Commons, here.
I chose this photo to represent the server room in which Aaron must plant a bug. This shows just how confusing one of those rooms can be.

Bibliography: Story of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, from British and Celtic Reading Units, found here.