The Scrumpled Paper Ball- 5 reasons it could be significant in a novel

I've thought of 5storylines that give the piece of paper a significance. (I think that's what we were supposed to do!?)

The piece of paper could be......

1. A discarded paper aeroplane that the teacher has crumpled up and thrown over their shoulder in disgust after being hit in the face by it. The entire (imaginary) novel is about a boy who longs for independence and freedom. The paper aeroplane is symbolism of his freedom, and how it is crushed by people more powerful than him.

2. A list titled 'The Hate List' written by the main character (a boy)'s sister. The story begins with the siblings arguing in the corridor at school- things get heated and the boy shouts 'well, at least it's not my fault Mum's dead'. the girl runs into an empty classroom crying, and writes the list, which is actually just the boy's name over and over again. A strict teacher walks into the room and snaps that the girl shouldn't be inside at break. As the girl walks out of the room, she scrumples up the list and throws it into a corner.

3. A printed out picture of the Queen. The novel is about a schizophrenic English teacher who is fired at the beginning of the story for bringing in darts and getting children to aim for the picture of the Queen that was pinned to his noticeboard. The heated debate between himself and the headmistress ends in the headmistress screaming at him to leave the premises and never return, and before he leaves he tears down the picture and throws it at the headmistress. The novel is about how he is recruited by an extremist group to assassinate the Queen- his schizophrenia means that half the time he worships the royal family and half the time he detests them.

4. A paper 'bullet' leftover from an alien invasion. The aliens come from Planet Paper, and aim to take over the world by paper cutting every human being to death. Unfortunately the aliens were not aware that humans had invented the paper shredder, and after not very long, the few remaining ships fled. One 'bombing' had taken place at a school, and one of the 'bullets' from the ships had entered the classroom through an open window.

5. A piece of paper ripped from a child's exercise book. The novel could be about a cleaner at a school who had aspirations to become an author, but didn't do very well at school, and with no A-levels, no publishers will even consider reading her work. The cleaner enjoys cleaning out the English classrooms, because when no-one else is around she gets out the childrens' exercise books and reads the stories they've made up. Every now and then she writes little comments in the books pretending to be the teacher, in order to help the children to improve. In this particular scene, she reads a story titled 'Failure', the plot being an exact recount of her life. She rips out the page, scrumples it up and throws it on the floor, then runs out of the room home to her computer, determined to write a letter of persuasion to make the publishers read her work (which ends up being a best-seller at the end of the novel).