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    Zara is struggling with her sexuality and feelings for her female best friend. Her parents discover her online diary detailing this and involve religious authorities, worsening the conflict. The story follows Zara as her forbidden love deepens despite facing rejection, abuse, and pressure from those close to her who disapprove due to religious beliefs. In the climax, Zara must decide whether to follow her religion or run away with her lover. She chooses to escape but still feels lingering guilt and internal conflict from her upbringing.

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    Zara is struggling with her sexuality and feelings for her female best friend. Her parents discover her online diary detailing this and involve religious authorities, worsening the conflict. The story follows Zara as her forbidden love deepens despite facing rejection, abuse, and pressure from those close to her who disapprove due to religious beliefs. In the climax, Zara must decide whether to follow her religion or run away with her lover. She chooses to escape but still feels lingering guilt and internal conflict from her upbringing.

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    Zara is struggling with her sexuality and feelings for her female best friend. Her parents discover her online diary detailing this and involve religious authorities, worsening the conflict. The story follows Zara as her forbidden love deepens despite facing rejection, abuse, and pressure from those close to her who disapprove due to religious beliefs. In the climax, Zara must decide whether to follow her religion or run away with her lover. She chooses to escape but still feels lingering guilt and internal conflict from her upbringing.

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    Narrative Structure Diagram

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    Zara is struggling with her sexuality and feelings for her female best friend. Her parents discover her online diary detailing this and involve religious authorities, worsening the conflict. The story follows Zara as her forbidden love deepens despite facing rejection, abuse, and pressure from those close to her who disapprove due to religious beliefs. In the climax, Zara must decide whether to follow her religion or run away with her lover. She chooses to escape but still feels lingering guilt and internal conflict from her upbringing.

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    Narrative Structure Diagram

    Exposition:
    Protagonists – Our main character is Zara, who is lost within her own mind and
    finds it difficult to cope with everyday life. At the beginning, she loathes herself
    for the feelings she develops for her female best friend. At first she doesn’t
    understand how to deal with her emotions so she tries to hide her lustful
    behaviour. The audience will feel sympathy for her and how she is helpless in her
    situation.

    Agents of Change:
    Antagonists – In opposition lie the parents of Zara who have the best interest for
    their daughter; they seek help from religious sources (who are also seen as
    antagonists) making the situation worse by adding complications and pressure to
    Zara’s life. They are introduced half way through the film at an estimated time of
    35-45 minutes in the production. The religious figures stay present for the next
    half of the film and when they are not receiving screen time, they are heard in
    Zara’s thoughts when she consistently questions herself and religion.

    Conflict complication:
    The main problems arise when Zara’s parents find out about her “sexuality
    problem” by reading through her online diary via a blog found on the Internet.
    The conflict then spirals further out of control when other religious adult figures
    become involved with Zara’s life.

    Elaboration
    The story begins with Zara merely fantasizing herself with her best friend in a
    sexual situation, but then as the film progresses we see her feelings are becoming
    more serious and extreme, to points where she has moments of weakness and
    comes very close to confessing her love. To create an emotional connection
    between the audience and the ‘best friend’, we would go into detail about her
    life. We would show how living in a working class environment affects her every
    day life, she would be shown working to earn money and then to create
    sympathy for the character we would show a few scenes where illness within her
    family are made obvious, emphasising that she is working hard to earn for the
    health of her family. Zara and her best friend realise that they feel the same way
    for each other and decide to become more than friends, after this Zara feels
    briefly happy (this can be shown in slow motion as is in “This is England”). Zara
    faces her parents after they find out about her secret love affair with another
    female and she is forced to deal with the hassle everyone who care for her
    provide. The problems faced by Zara are rejection, physical punishments, verbal
    abuse and mental pressure; she bares this all until she is at a breaking point.

    Climax and resolution


    The climax point is where she is in two minds, of whether she should follow the
    teachings of her religion or run away and live her life the way she wants to. In the
    end Zara does run away with her best friend who becomes her lover however
    there are still unresolved issues and closure that she does not experience.

    Coda
    Though she runs away and escapes from her family, achieving her aspiration; she
    still feels guilt and embarrassment towards what she has done. Despite her
    wanting a fresh start, due to the way she has been brought up, her morals still
    get in the way of her conscious.

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