"Never Stand Next To a Hero" Lesson and Short Story

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Across
  1. 2. characters that will suffer so that the main character can be the hero
  2. 3. plot armor is most often used to make the main character into this
  3. 5. this creature's excitement causes the car accident
  4. 7. the main criminal has this name
  5. 8. this setting makes it possible for the Misfit and his gang to kill the family
  6. 10. the grandmother is killed after calling the Misfit one of her own ____
  7. 14. a literary device that utilizes deaths and narrow survival to propel the story forward
  8. 15. plot armor is used to teach the main character a ____
  9. 18. this character in the short story has plot armor
  10. 19. this trait of the grandmother's is revealed throughout the story
Down
  1. 1. this literary device is often present in stories with plot armor
  2. 2. the grandmother projects her traditional ____
  3. 4. the strategy of plot armor only applies to ____ characters
  4. 6. the author plays on the _____ connection that readers have with the characters
  5. 9. the grandmother wants to visit a ____ from her memory
  6. 11. characters without plot armor will often experience this
  7. 12. if a character with plot armor dies, it is normally at this point in the story
  8. 13. the ill-fated family travels to this state
  9. 16. genres that most often used plot armor include comics and ___
  10. 17. the grandmother and Red Sam discuss the failures of the next generation in his ____