23 Lost Thing New Story Exposition

The story will follows an orphaned boy, around 12 years old, in the early 1900s in London. He has never felt truly at home anywhere, and feels lost everywhere he goes.

Rising Action: A boy, stowing away on a train, suddenly gets discovered by a conductor, walking to the back of the train. The man chases the boy for a few minutes, until he is able to escape the train at a stop.

Rising Action: He finds a broken wrist watch, lying on the street, and takes it. He takes it down an alleyway to try and fix it, and after spending quite some time, finally gets the watch working again.

Rising Action: A man comes running down the alleyway, demanding the little boys gives him back his lost watch. The boy, who gets cornered, hands over the watch.

Climax: The man takes his watch back, noticing that it is currently ticking away. The man asks the boy where he learned to fix these, and it is revealed that he is a tinkerer, who tries to fix things such as watches, and has been working for weeks to fix it. The man ends up taking the boy home with him, to help him get off the streets, and to teach him how to fix things, and to learn from the boy.

Resolution: 10 years in the future, the boy still lives with the tinkerer, learning the craft from the great man, and finally feels at home.