The Climax

As it is a central turning point that has key events both leading up to it and following it, the Ms. Cunningham class outburst serves as this chapter’s climax. Both Jem and Scout are somber when Charles Baker Harris, or Dill, leaves Maycomb to head back up to Meridian at the end of the summer months. However, Scout’s sorrows are soon quelled when she realizes that this is the much-anticipated year that she begins school. On her first day of school, Jem, who adjured Scout not to address him…

hallucinate to think that Janie was cheating on him with someone else. Tea Cake than takes a pistol to Janie and starts to fire. Janie had to defend herself, she killed Tea Cake and was later sent to court but, was found not guilty. This would be the climax of the story…

which was good news for John Kerry, as Obama’s speech was intended to persuade voters to support Kerry as president. Obama uses rhetorical devices such as climax in structure, epistrophe, and metonymy to persuade skeptical voters to vote for John Kerry as their next president. Obama makes his speech more convincing by using climax to split his speech into multiple sections; the first section is used…

phenomenal story is made. This was achieved with the short story, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”. Kurt Vonnegut mastered the elements of the prominent narrative arc. Vonnegut intrigues the audience with an exceptional exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. The exposition of a narrative is the introduction to the characters and the conflict at hand. This introduction is the foundation for the rest of the literary work. In the exposition of Tomorrow and Tomorrow…

characters, and symbolism. The short story “Everyday Use” theme touches on heritage and the two differing views and understanding of the word within one family. The narrative perspective, differing points of views in the dialogue, rising of action, climax, and resolution all entice readers into the story and allows them to comprehend the connotation. This brief essay will explain how Alice Walker used these elements in her short fictional story to assist her readers grasp the underlying…

Have you ever fought a snake? “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. In this tale, a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki, single handedly, fought his way through the bathrooms of the Big Bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. He fought against two cobra mates, fighting for their own children, dominance, and their lives. The exposition of the of the story introduces the main protagonist and other side characters. It introduces Rikki-Tikki, Teddy, the “big man”, Teddy’s mother, Chuchundra,…

Climaxes are supposed to keep you on the edge, to keep you interested. In each chapter there is a different climax. Though some are less significant than others. A few climaxes that got your heart beating were when Dantes escaped the Chateau d’If, the probability of a duel between Albert and The Count and then when Villefort is rushing to save his wife. Notably there were some other important climaxes such as Dantes being arrested and Dantes finding the treasure on the Isle Monte Cristo. One of…

In this specific selection of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses figurative language, diction, and a dominate impression, to portray the growing tension of the climax, the common themes of the American dream, and loving commitments failing. In the beginning of this passage, Tom is taken back by Gatsby announcing that Daisy never loved him but loved Gatsby for the past five years. Throughout this scene Fitzgerald uses figurative language to reference Daisy and Tom’s relationship…

4. The illustrations should help readers anticipate the unfolding of a story’s action and its climax. Book 1: With each page there is a new adventure for the reader. Brain Fola, has written and illustrated a book that is full of energy and excitement. If there was a climax, the greatest adventure to unfold during the story plot, it would have to be Dale Creek Bridge crossing. The text emphasizes the narrowness of the bridge, the heaviness of the train, and the rickety sounds from the bridge.…

struggle to try and attain it unknowing of that fact. Steinbeck continuously pushes for the themes as he also pushes to evoke emotions within the reader in order to do so and we see this in the farm’s symbolism, the foreshadowing that leads to the climax, and the very last scene of the story in which one Lennie is unaware that neither of them will get to fulfill that dream of living on a farm and living off the fat of the…