Alex Oyle's short story proposal

Exposition:   Three friends are going on vacation to Bogota, Columbia for a few months.  They are all avid hikers and outdoors man and are planning to spend a month camping and exploring in the Colombian wilderness.  After they are done camping they plan to stay with a friend of theirs in Bogota.  




Inciting incident:  As the three friends start their adventure into the jungle they have a strange feeling that they are being watched.  Once they get deeper into the jungle they forget there fears and start having the time of their lives exploring caves and taking photos of exotic animals.  One day they decide to explore a cave they found the day before.  When they get into the cave there is a terrible smell and they find a human corpse that had been beaten and shot.  One of them recognizes the face and it belongs to a hiker that had gone into the jungle a few months before but had never returned home.




Rising Action:  One night they hear rustling from outside their tents and they decide to check it out.  They look around for a little bit but find nothing, as they walk back towards their campsite 8 men armed with guns jump out from the shadows and surround the boys.  They men are yelling in Colombian and then one of them steps towards the boys and hits one of them with the butt of his rifle.  Before the other two can react to other men hit them and all three of them are tied up and put in a jeep.




Climax:  They are taken to a hidden cave deep in the jungle.  They are put in a make shift jail cell made of steel bars carved into a nook of the cave.  They wake up to dim candle light and two guards sitting a few feet away.  they figure out a plan to escape and after a few weeks of planning they manage to escape but now they are stranded in the jungle with no supplies or idea where they are.




Falling Action:  They start walking in the direction of Bogota.  After a few weeks of traveling they stumble upon their old campsite and find a few survival materials they left behind.  After a few days after they were supposed to arrive at their friends house he went to the police and they sent out a search team to find the boys.


Resolution:  The search party reaches the old campsite and are disappointed about not finding the boys but they find the boys left them a message giving them the direction they were traveling and they were soon located.