2014 Target Story Suggestions: Final List

So, there’s 106 story suggestions this year………yup. Have at, wild youths. Remember what’s important for a target story:

1. Has to be a story that most in your theoretical audience will be familiar with.
2. Has multiple characters and lots of different things for different groups to work with.
3. There is something you want to question in the story. Example: In the Ugly Ducking, the ugly duckling suffers greatly just because of his appearance, but is loved only when he becomes beautiful. This is clearly a horrible thing, and was a good thing to question and present to our audience.
4. It can’t be too long, probably no more than 200 pages. You want to be able to read the text and figure out what themes, characters, etc. you want to work with, so you will probably need to read it more than once. NO MOBY DICKS.
5. On Saturday you will pick two stories from this list before discussion will even begin. Be ready to discuss multiple stories. If you are dead set on one, be able to succinctly talk about what it is about that story that would make it a good target story. DO NOT JUST BE ALL “OMG THIS IS SUCH A GREAT STORY AND I LOVE IT SO WE SHOULD DO IT BECAUSE IT’S GOOD.”

12 Dancing Princesses
12^th Night
Alice in Wonderland
Antigone
Baba Yaga
The Ballad of Mulan
Barefoot in the Park
Bluebeard
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Revelation
The Book Thief
Brave New World
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catcher in the Rye
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Clockwork Orange
Coraline
Corpse Bride
Dante’s Inferno
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Dr. Who
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Emperor’s New Clothes
Everything is Illuminated
Fahrenheit 451
Faust
The Giver
Go Ask Alice
The Great Mouse Detective
Gulliver’s Travels
Hamlet
The Handmaid’s Tale
Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Invisible Man
The Island of Doctor Moreau
It
James and the Giant Peach
Jane Eyre
Jumanji
The Jungle
King Midas
The Little Prince
A Little Princess
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Macbeth
The Magician’s Nephew
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Medusa
The Metamorphosis
Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Monkey’s Paw
The Most Dangerous Game
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM
Much Ado About Nothing
Murder on the Orient Express
My Fair Lady/Pygmalion
Narcissus
Neverwhere
Nightmare Before Christmas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Othello
Out of the Silent Planet
The Outsiders
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Pride and Prejudice
The Princess Bride
Rapunzel
The Raven
The Remains of the Day
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Robinson Crusoe
Romeo and Juliet
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Garden
A Separate Peace
Sherlock Holmes
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sleeping Beauty
Stardust
The Stepford Wives
The Stranger
A Streetcar Named Desire
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
The Tell-Tale Heart
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thumbelina
The Time Machine
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Virgin Suicides
War of the Worlds
Water for Elephants
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The Wealth of Nations
A Wrinkle in Time
Wuthering Heights
The Yellow Wallpaper

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