Climax

In Shirley Jackson’s Charles, the narrator is the mother of a mischievous child named Laurie, who has a significant impact on the story. Laurie is adjusting to kindergarten, where he has been behaving poorly. Instead of telling his parents that he is acting badly, Laurie creates an imaginary person named Charles. According to Laurie, Charles consistently has poor behavior at school, as the Laurie states, “‘Well, Charles was bad again today.’ He grinned enormously and said, ‘Today Charles hit…

day. In the comment, “After three days he’d had enough. He had to do something, get outside, take a walk,” (Author, #), we see that the author is leading us up to the conflict. The climax of the story is when Wallace goes down to the estuary and it caught smoking weed and snaps at the man in the green jacket. The climax gives us a conflict between the man in the green jacket and Wallace. The author made the comment, “Wallace decided he was going to let the man say whatever he wanted to say. That…

In a plot review of creative writing student J.R. Johnson’s story “The Bitter Hunt”, all five basic elements of Gustav Freitag’s Pyramid structure were present. Situation: Three buddies have gone on a hunting and camping trip in the desert landscape that surrounds Tucson in Arizona. After three days and very little success, the blame begins to shift to Jeep traffic and the illegal immigrant “invasion” which has scarred the environment. The conflict is further affirmed by a Border Patrol…

overcoming an imprisonment of society to experience independence and individuality. Sadly in Mrs. Mallard case, her freedom was less than an hour. Through the use of dramatic and situational irony, Chopin's creates an intricate plot, through rising action, climax and a denouement. Since it is a short story, the rising action quickly presents the conflict in the story. The reader meets Mrs. Mallard when she is informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident: “It was he [Richard]…

Nathan Englander short story, “free-fruit-for-young-widows” is narrated under the limited omniscient point of view. The story starts with astonishing climax of the atrocious killing of four Egyptian soldiers by private Tendler, a friend of Etgar’s father shimmy Gezer, but ends with energized uplifting pinnacle at the upshots, how Etgar’s holds his father business and bags of free food. Actions on the plot are described in a distinct pattern and are placed wisely with the felicitous diction.…

The Shawshank Redemption is the tale of a banker who is wrongly convicted of double murder and his struggle to survive in Shawshank prison. The director, Frank Darabont, utilises the effect of colour, symbolism and foreshadowing to position the viewer to feel compassion towards the oppressed inmates and hostility towards the Warden and guards. Darabont, raises issues such as: institutionalisation, hope, freedom, corruption and oppression and has created a plot consisting of rising action and…

satisfying climax. In Jackson’s work, all the suspense and conflict in the story builds toward the climax. The climax consists of one simple question that the readers are left with to ponder: ‘what is really happening in the story?’ The answer to this question is finally answered with the following excerpt at the very end of the story: “A stone hit her on the side of her head,” (Jackson 131). Jackson has finally revealed the sinister plans of the lottery. Inevitably, a satisfying climax can only…

At the beginning of “Salvation”, Langston Hughes, the narrator, is an ordinary, honest boy who learns from his experiences but succumbs to immense personal pressure. As the main character, Langston is round and develops throughout this short story. He never refuses to go to church, showing that he is not only obedient but also a devout Christian. He acts realistically throughout the special meeting for children. At first, he tries to avoid jumping on the bandwagon by truthfully staying on the…

"In a warm village with a thousand colors, there lived a little sparrow who loved a little girl". This stunning quote is from a marvelous book called Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss. I would like to encourage you to add this story to your textbook. It is about a girl, along with her sister, brother, and friend, who are nailed into crates to move to the United States. But, they are illegal immigrants, coming into the United States to get away from the guards in Mexico. This story…

suspense, mood, and mystery are created. 1 element for creating mystery is a revenge story. A second element for creating mystery is little subtle things in a story. A final element for creating mystery is long rising action, and right before the climax a sudden turn of events spilled upon the page. This thesis is about how Edgar Allan Poe creates Mood and Mystery. A revenge story is a great way to create suspense. In The Cask of Amontillado right at the beginning Montresor proclaims his…