THE ELEMENTS OF A STORY

Short Story Elements	what is it?	Example
plot	What happen in the story?	Is about of a good friendship
theme	Main idea of the story	The boy loved the tree and the tree loved the boy
conflict	Problem in the story	there was a true friendship between man and the tree
setting	Two questions : where and when	where: in the forest when: during long time
Characters	Antagonist and protagonist	tree,  boy, family
point of view	how is the story told?	the author is not involved in the story