ALICE MORRISON
Childhood
Place of birth: LA, California
Date of birth: January 11, 1992
Gender: Male
Sexual preference: Female
Ethnicity: African-American, Spanish
Family members: Mother: Scarlett. Father left family while Mother was
pregnant
Family relationships: Mother is negligent – has ups and downs due to
mother’s mental health issues.
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When she is up she extremely
loving. When she is down cannot look after herself, let alone her daughter.
Family occupation: Mother is out of work due – In-and-out of
psychiatric wards due her bipolar disorder.
Family class: lower/working class
Education:
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Primary school
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Too shy to participate and
socialize in class.
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Had one teacher that paid extra
attention to her and provided her with the affection that she lacked.
§ Teacher tutored her for free and she began to excel her classes.
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Teacher was relocated to another
school. Never heard from her again.
Personality: introvert, easily manipulated, dreamer,
independent – the type of person that has good intentions and doesn’t want to
break the rules, but will do it if she doesn’t see any way out
Physical attributes:
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Size: tall
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Strength: weak
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Health: in poor health –
malnourished
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Looks: thin, black hair, black
eyes, dark complexion
Obstacles: has had issues making friends as well as finding
someone that she can trust, depend on, and connect with.
Challenges:
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Mother is unable to take care of and
provide her with the affection that she needs.
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Has trouble focussing in school
because she is looking out for her mother, even at a young age.
Teenage years
Education: High school
Occupation:
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Interested in photography,
journalism, cinema and traveling.
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Enjoys swimming and running –
individualistic sports that allow her to focus on herself and clear her mind
Family relationships: Mother has new boyfriend, Sam, who is abusive and a
heavy drinker.
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Alice and her mother have grown
apart due to this, and Alice lives in a constant state of fear.
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Feels the need to leave home.
Alliegance: Running in a bad circle of older kids whom are
bad influences on her.
Other significant relationships:
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Became good friends with Chase, a
boy running in the same circle of friends.
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Only real friend that she’s ever
had.
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Grew emotionally attached to him.
Obstacles and challenges:
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Chase was forced to move away
because his parents’ separation.
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Abusive episode between Mother
and her boyfriend.
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Mother has to go to hospital.
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Mother becomes severely
depressed. Alice is there to support her.
Psychology:
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Fears that her mother will never
get better.
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Hopes that she can one day travel
the world. She loves her mother but has always felt that she has been caged in
due to her mother’s psychological and familial issues.
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She was really affected by Chase
moving away. She feels that everyone that she cares for leaves.
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Enjoys skateboarding, writing,
painting, taking photos of her environment, talking to her mom when she is
well, yoga, reading about different cultures, cooking, learning. She also
enjoys partying and losing herself to music, alcohol and drugs.
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Her interests in art, journalism,
photography and travel have grown with passion. She wants to combine them in a
way but does not know how.
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dislikes, likes, ideals, beliefs, obsessions,
delusions, phobias, vanities
The present
Age: 23
Location: LA, California
Professional:
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Journalist at a small newspaper
company covering fashion.
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Bartender at dingy club.
Personal: Single
Private: his or her inner life.
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She despises that she is covering
fashion rather than real news or something more serious. Feels that she is
better than that and has been unfairly treated. Hopes to be promoted to a
different topic.
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Still enjoys reading, writing,
photography, documentaries, cooking, art, yoga, meditating, music.
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Wants to make a difference in the
world.
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Dreams of traveling the world and
writing about the places she explores and the people that she meets.
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She hasn’t forgiven herself for
leaving her mother after her mother’s boyfriend had another abusive episode.
Obstacles and challenges:
• On her eighteenth birthday, her mother’s boyfriend came home
heavily intoxicated and got into a fight with her mother. Alice attempted to
stand up for her, and Scarlett hit her in the face so hard that she hit her
head on the wall and blacked out on the floor. Scarlett would not let her
mother help her. Alice later woke up shaking. Jade and Sam were nowhere to be
seen. She packed up her bag, left a note for her mother and never came back.
• She has a hard time coping with the fact that she left her mother.
Point-of-view:
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She’s spiritual but not
religious. Believes that being spiritual can come in many forms and that
everything happens for a reason.
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Alice dreams of changing the
world and of making a difference, but does not actually believe she can. She
lacks confidence. She has always been the underdog and does not think that will
change.
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She has ambition and will surpass
whatever time or effort is required to get there. She is also patient and
realistic, she knows that goals need to be worked for and take time to be
achieved.
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She believes that people are
fundamentally good, but make bad decisions. She sees that in herself and in
others as well. Sometimes the right thing to do is harder than doing wrong.
Conflict:
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Alice knows that she is
intelligent person, both book and street smart. Due to her lack of confidence,
however, she finds it hard to make other people see that as well, while also
standing up for herself.
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She strives for a healthy mind
and body but cannot turn down a night of partying. She lacks control when it
comes to alcohol, smoking and drugs.
Dramatic
need/goal
Alice
needs to let herself go and she can only achieve that by letting go of
everything she owns. She wants to change the world but she will only be able to
do so by changing herself.
Reflections:
Alice's personality and aspirations from her teenage years as well as her obstacles, challenges and dreams from the present are relevant to my narrative. She is introverted, a
dreamer, independent. She still dreams of changing the world, of making a
difference and attaining freedom, but does not actually believe she can. She
lacks confidence. She has always been the underdog and does not think that will
change. Her mother's abusive relationship with her boyfriend has greatly effected her. This can be resurfaced through flashbacks while her personality traits and dreams can be expressed through her diary entries.
