How to create a board game based on the book THE OUTSIDERS by H.E Hinton??

Question

I have to create a board game for English. It has to include:

Theme

Conflict

Setting

Leadership

Justice

Heroes

Resolution

Character ( illustrate personality traits)

Symbolism

Change

Any ideas on how the game should be like? Something else beside Monopoly please.

Answer 1

I haven't read the book, but I can give you a few general ideas that apply to every book:

- Make the game pieces look like the main characters of the book. Just cut up some carboard, draw them on and bend

them so they stay propped up ('Heroes').  For 'Leadership', maybe the person who goes first has to do something special (can't think of anything, but you might be able to come up with something relevant to your book). As for 'Personality Traits', you can have each character have one pro and one con for using them. For example, if one character is stubborn in the book, if he rolls a 5 you can't move him out of stubborness. On the other hand, if he rolls a 3, he gets to pick up an extra card.

- Make the starting point the main village/place the story starts in, or if there is more than one plot in the story, have more than one track on the board (with equal number of tiles the characters have to land on), and set each player on its proper starting point. ('Setting')

- Think up 5-10 or so major events that happened in the plot, then incorporate them into some of the tiles. For example, if one of the characters loses his dog in the book, make a tile that says "Scruffy has run away, go back 10 spaces" ('Conflict', 'Change')

- Make the goal of the game match up with the story line of the book. For example, if the characters were trying to find a magic crystal, or defeat an evil warlock, make the last space on the board the crystal, or make the player have to roll doubles while on the Warlock square in order to defeat the warlock and win the game. ('Resolution', 'Justice', 'Symbolism' (the dice symbolic for fighting and luck, maybe?))

- For a theme board game, apearance will play into it a lot as well. Just do your best to make the board game look like it follows the theme of the book, and that will make a big difference. ('Theme')

- Make some of the squares trivia questions about the book

Some of those are a far stretch, but I think that covers all the criteria. As for what the game should look like, a race-style game seems to be the best choice if you want to incorporate all of that into a game. Whoever gets to the last tile wins, and make sure there's lots of ups and downs in the game play so it will be fun and interesting. Good luck on your project!

Answer 2

Wow-that's rough!  I don't know how you would necessarily incorporate all of those things in there, but you could do like a Life type game.  You would roll and then come into such conflicts as "brought into police station for questioning of Bob's murder" lose next turn....Went and saw drive-in movie (w/o sneaking in) pay 5 dollars.......Saved children from burning church advance 2 spaces....maybe that can get you started!

Answer 3

By the way the author's name is S.E. Hinton not H.E. Hinton ---it stands for Susan Eloise Hinton . She uses that b/c publishing companies said " a girl would not know about a boy's life".

Be creative & do it yourself