Plot+and+Conflict

Hi Everyone,
The homework from this day is to post a link to a short story and write about its plot and what kinds of conflict it has. I'm looking forward to seeing what stories you choose. Have a good night! Miss Gunter

Hi everyone it is Kayla

The story that I chose is called //the wish bone tree// by Simon Daniels

The Wish Bone Tree: []

It is about a boy called Marcus and his dog Minge who went for a walk. When Marcus released Minge from his leash Minge wentsch running down a rabbit hole. Marcus called his name and there was no answer. Hours past, until Marcus found a tree that had smoke and he brought a branch that was smoking down to the rabbit hole and finally Minge came running out.

The climax of the story is when Minge ran down thee rabbit hole and didn’t come out until Marcus put smoke down the hole the.

Here is the link;
[|Short Stories: The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen] ==== The plot of this story is straight forward and it starts as the ugly duckling being different to the rest of his family and all the other ducks consider him ugly. That would be the same as a conflict, since the other ducks also tease him, bite him, punch him and make fun of him too. ====

I think that the rising action of the story was when the ugly duckling had just met a pair of wild ducks, and when they then got shot it front of him.
==== I think that the part between the ugly duckling meeting the old lady, the purring cat and then hen (the two animals that thought they were the smartest and cleverest in the whole world), and the part where he decides to leave the cottage because the animals in the cottage aren't treating him well is the part BEFORE the climax. ==== ====The climax is when the ugly duckling meets the peasant, and expects him to kill him because he thinks he is so ugly, and as he bends down to hide his face, he sees his reflection in the water and notices that he is a beautiful swan. ====

Please comment: i use to love that story and waned to do it (i re read the whole story!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Margaux
=Hello!=

The short story I've read is called "Witch In The Tower"

The story's setting is a tiny Japanese village called "Kyoto" where a witch had taken possession of. The samurais of "Kyoto" all challenged themalevolent witch who unfortunately ,destroyed them all including their leader Watanabi. The rising action starts when Watanabi's son decides to destroy the witch for the glory of his father.The climax happens when Watanabi's son sneaks in to the witches room and destroys her!

Jay Won Lee

Margaux:

hi! i wanted to do the ugly duckling but Tamara did it so I choose 'The Frog Prince' by the brothers Grimm.

the link is here:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FrogPrin.shtml

The Exposition: In the frog prince, the exposition is when the princess 'plays' with her golden ball (wich i her most precious thing) beside a spring of water. She then drops the ball in the spring by accitend.

The Rising Action: The princess is so sad because she dropped the ball. But, the frog says that he can fetch the ball for her if he is allowed to live with her. The princes says 'yes' because she thinks that the frog can't get out of the spring. The princess leaves the frog alone to go to her house.

The Climax: The next day, the frog goes to the princess's house and rings the doorbell. The princess opens the door and she is teriffied, because she completely forgot about the frog. Her dad tells her that she has to let him in because she promised.

The Falling Action: A other day, when the princess wakes up, she sees a prince in front of her.

The Resolution: The prince and the princess get married.

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Hi Guys! Whats Up!

So my short story is a native american story about the sky.

Exposition: S o along time there was no darkness or violence and no animal ate each other. One day, a lion ate a goat because he got hungry, and soon enough the animals were eating each other so the gods got angry and put a black cloth over the world so that no one could see.

The rising action: The animals couldn't see a thing so they decided to get the birds to fly and poke a hole. All the birds and failed so a small little hummingbird decided to give it a try. Everyone thought the little bird couldn't get to the top, but the humming bird was still eager to try. So everyday little by little he would fly up to sky. Day after day, the hummingbird would fly up and fall back down.

Climax: One day the bird made a tiny hole in the sky. The next day he makes a bigger hole and the next day he made an even bigger hole. Soon, there were holes all over the black cloth.

The falling action Even though the bird was tired it kept on trying and one day he made a huge hole and landed on the outside of the black cloth, but sadly the little bird was so tired it had died.

Resolution: The gods saw this and saw that there was still good in the world. So the gods decided to take the black cloth half of the day and put it back on the other half. This is how the little hummingbird saved the world and how there is night and day.

The one and only, Mason AWESOME Chung!!!!!

hi I am jake the story I chose is about a snail in a fish tank.

beginning:Abby finds a water snail in the fish tank.It is verry small.

Rising action:the snail grows and gets bigger.

Climax:the water snail dissapears after cleaning the tank.

Falling action:Abby and her mom looks for the snail.

Ending:the water snail is found with another smaller snail

Hello Everybody!!!

The short story that i chose is called Adventures of Tom Thumb It is about a woodcutter that lived with his wife in a small cottage not far from a great forest. And they had seven children—all boys; and the youngest was the smallest little fellow ever seen. He was called Tom Thumb. But though he was so small, he was far cleverer than any of his brothers, and he heard a great deal more than anybody ever imagined...

the climax of King Kong with a trained monkey and a trained mouse.It is exciting cause you know that the mouse can talk.

Julia

Hi! I chose the story, 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'.

Exposition: There lived a poor tailer named Aladdin. He was poor and he needed money. One day, a man came up to him and bought Aladdin clothes and food. But, the man had a deal to Aladdin in a change of money. The man asked Aladdin to obey him and fallow what to do. Then the man asked to bring him a lamp but Aladdin disobeyed him. The man trapped him inside the cave and never let him out. The rising action: From the lamp, a genie came out and saved Aladdin. The Genie gave Aladdin three wishes. The three wishes were: 1. Make him rich. 2. To marry a princess. 3. To let the genie out of the lamp. Climax: The evil man came back and wanted Genie. So the man stole Aladdin wishes and ran away with the princess. Falling action: Aladdin goes looking for his three wishes and defeats the evil man Resolution: Aladdin lives a happy life with his wife.

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Unknown/Aladdin_and_the_Wonderful_Lamp/Aladdin_and_the_Wonderful_Lamp_p1.html

Jiwan Lee


 * I chose: The and and the Grasshopper. **


 * Exposition: There was once an and and a grasshopper. It was summer, so the ant was working hard and the grasshopper was just playing. **
 * Rising: The grasshopper started teasing the ants **
 * Climax:The ant replied that if grasshopper doesn't start to prepare for winter, he will die **
 * The grasshopper just ignores that. **
 * Falling action: The winter comes and grasshopper goes to the ants for help. **
 * Resolution: The ant does not give food and grasshopper dies. **


 * Link: ** http://www.dltk-teach.com/fables/grasshopper/mstory.htm


 * Jay Shim **

Hi, I chose the story Thumbelina, by Hans Christian Anderson. http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Thu.shtml

Exposition: There was a lonely old woman who desperately wanted a child. A fairy came and granted her wish, giving her barleycorn to grow a plant. In the flower of the plant that grew, was a little girl, half the size of the woman’s thumb. She called her Thumbelina.

The rising action: An ugly, wet toad saw Thumbelina, and stole her away for her son to marry. Obviously, Thumbelina was not very happy about this. She was helped to escape, and survived alone for a while, until she met a fieldmouse, who allowed her to live with her, doing the chores. The field mouse arranges for her to become engaged to a mole. Thumbelina does not want to marry the mole and live underground.

Meanwhile, she finds a bird in the tunnels who has been hurt, and helps him to recover.

Climax: Thumbelina is set to marry the mole, but escapes when the bird is recovered, and flies her away to a beautiful field of flowers.

The falling action The bird tells Thumbelina to choose a flower to live in, where he promises she will be happy.

Resolution: Thumbelina chooses a flower, in which happens to live a little Thumbelina Prince. They marry, and live happily ever after.

The End!

Adri.

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I chose the story of Three Little Pigs

Exposition: Three little pigs comes out home to build their own house.

Rising Action: The eldest pig makes his house made out of straw, the 2nd pig makes his house out of wood stick stronger and the youngest pig makes his house out of brick.

Climax: A wolf came and blew away the straw house and the stick house and ate the 2 pigs. After he ate the 2 pigs the wolf went to the 3rd pig and tried to blow the brick house away, but it was no use. So the wolf tries to enter the house through the chimney.

Falling Action: Before the wolf came down the chimney the pig boiled water below the chimney and made it impossible for the wolf to enter the house.

Resolution: The pig lives happily ever after.

--Kevin

The Last Leaf by Henry O

Exposition: Two artists, called Sue and Johnsy are artists, and meet and share a studio apartment.

Rising action: Johnsy gets a bad disease called pneumonia, near death as the lies on her bed, and thinks she will die when the last leaf drops from the dying vine

climax: ** Her neighbor, an elderly artist frustrated by his inability to paint what is in his heart, follows the example of the Savior and makes the ultimate sacrifice to save johnsy's life. **

Falling action: The neighbor, Johnsy`s savior, dies because of pueumonia

resolution:By saving Johnsy, the man created a masterpiece he struggled to paint.

=David Song _

Hi there its Ronin, and this is my favourite short story.

http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/gingerbreadman.htm to access highlight and right click, goto, goto http etc.

This is about an old couple who bake a gingerbread man, after he is done being cooked, he jumps out of the oven and runs away yelling " run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am the gingerbread man." The story progresses as the old couple try to catch the gingerbread.

Hello I am Jenny. My story is the Goldilock and the Three Bears.

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Exposition: A little girl named Goldilock and she went for a little walk. She soon found a house and went in side.

Rising Action: She was so hungry that she at the fist porriage but it was too hot. The second one was too cold. The last one was just right for her. She was too tired. Then she saw three chairs. First two chairs were too big for Goldilocks. The last one was ok. She was so sleepy so she went upstairs and saw three beds. One was too hard, the other was too soft, but the last one was just right for her.

Climax: The three little bears came into their house. They found out that someone ate their porriage and sat on their chairs.

Falling Action: Then they went up to their beds. The mom and the father bear found out thatsomeone was sleeping in their beds.But, someone was sleeping on the baby bear's bed.

Resolution: Right then, Goldilocks woke up. She ran and never came back. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hello, I'm Ryan. I did this story: **RUMPELSTILTSKIN.**

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The Rising Action:

The miller was boasting that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The King actually believed it and tells the miller’s daughter to spin straw into gold. Since the miller’s daughter cannot spin gold, she was so angry and started to cry. After a couple of hours, a dwarf came to her and told her that if she gives her first son, the dwarf will make straw into gold. The daughter accepted it, and the next day, the King gets impressed and he decided to marry the miller’s daughter. The Climax: One day, the miller’s daughter (the queen) gave birth to her son. After a couple of days, the dwarf comes to her and asks her to give her the prince. She said no, so the dwarf told her that if she guesses his name and gets it right, she doesn’t need to give the prince to the dwarf. The Falling Action:

She sends people to find out the dwarf’s name. She gets the first and second attempt wrong, but one of her people saw the dwarf shouting his name: RUMPELSTILTSKIN.

The Resolution:

Rumpelstiltskin gets very angry and disappears into the forest and never gets seen again. The queen and the prince lives happily forever. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hi everyone, this is Rachel and I'm not sure if this is my absolute favourite, but I'll do this story anyways because I have to do my homework.

Title: King Grisly-Beard Author(s): Brothers Grimm

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Exposition- There was a princess who was very spoiled and pround and conceited and whenever some people come to marry her, she would make fun of them and not marry them. One of them was King Grisly-Beard (a nickname given by the princess)

Rising Action- The King was angry and said that the first man in the pricess's room will be her husband, and this travelling, dirty looking fiddler sung before the king and the princess and asked for a gift.

Climax- The pricess is married to the dirty person and she is having a difficult time living like a peasant.

Falling Action- The princess finds out that it was King Grisly-Beard disguised as the dirty old man.

Resolution- The couple was now officially married and lived happily every after.

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Christine Lee 7C

http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-60.html

King Grisly-Beard By Grimm Brothers Story that I chose is King Grisly-Beard. I didn't really like the story, but I thought that this is quite a good one. *I just noticed that I chose same thing as Rachel! But please don't think that I copied or anything. I think this story is famous one..

Exposition: There was the princess who was very beautiful, but always laughed at other people. Because she was so proud of herself, all the princes who came to ask her for marriage wasn't good for her.

Rising Action: The king, father of the princess, invited people who may be suitable to her. She said all weren't good enough, and that included King Grisly-Beard, one of the people who was invited.

Climax: King decided to make the princess married with the first one to be at the castle door, and a fiddler comes by. So princess lives with the fiddler, and had a hard time because she never had hard time for food or money.

Falling Action: When she was working as kitchen-maid in the palace, she met the king's son, and the son brings her to him saying that she is very beautiful.

Resolution: King Grisly-Beard tells her that it was all his plan to cure her pride, and that he did it because he loved her so much. Then they get married with joy

Jay Joo / 7C
 * __How to get really smart__**
 * __ Beginning: __**** Long time ago the costomer asked Simon what made him smart and Simon replied that he ate a lot of fish’s had order to get smart. **
 * __ Rising action: __**** So the costomer brought fish’s heads for $4 each. **
 * __ Climax: __**** After few days the customer complained that fish’s heads were disgusting and he didn’t get any smarter so Simon replied that he had to eat 20 more fish’s heads. Again the customer bought fish’s head for $4 each. **
 * __ Falling action: __**** However the customer complained again that Simon was ripping him off. **
 * __ Ending: __** **This is what Simon says:”You see? You are smarter already.**

** Hi everyone, this is Soyeon. **
//** The book is all about 3 children looking for a magic book to find their parents again. And a bad woman with high powers tries to find the book first. But at the end, the children win and got some more clues of where their parents are. **// __** Beginning: **__ At Christmas Eve, 3 children wake up and are carried into a car. The oldest one, Kate, promises with her Mum that she has to take care of her younger brother and sister and that they will meet again. The 3 children are carried away from their parents. 3 years later, they are in an orphanage, and a woman is expecting them to pick them up. Later on, the youngest one, Emma finds a magic book and the three of them are carried away, into another world they don't even know. __** Ending: **__ The 3 children and their friends finally know how to use the atlas, and they go on another adventure to find their parents. (there is a second book of it, but i don't have it.)
 * Book:__The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens__ **
 * __ Rising action: __** Suddenly, a evil woman attacks the 3 of them and they are chased by the evil woman and her army of soulless Screechers.
 * __ Climax: __** The evil guys stopped chasing the 3 children, and they get more friends, and together, they find out how to use the magical atlas to find their parents. **__Falling action:__**The evil woman captures the 3 children, and gets the atlas. But then Kate, Michael and Emma get it back, and destroy the evil guys. They flee, but the evil ruling Countess is still alive.

Hi yo Bi yo Hi bi yo! This is Daniel Chung from 7C Book- __The Sound Of Thunder By, Ray Bradbury__ Beginning- In the far future time machines are invented and they use this machine to hunt dinosaurs from the past. Rising Action- The man went to the past to kill the ReX!!!! Climax- The man kills the Rex but he is really scared that he steps on a butter fly Falling Action-The things change because of that 1 butterfly Ending-It was all the man's fault so the owner kills the man !!!

THE END

hello! I'm justin ha. Book-The last leaf By- O' henry It's about two friends, Sue and Johnsy.One day, Johnsy got pneumonia, a bad disease. She said when the last leaf from the dying ivy vine dies she will die too. So Sue went to her neighbor who was a artist help Johnsy. The next day, Johnsy saw a leaf hanging after a snow storm. Johnsy got better and then they both found out that there neighbor died of pneumonia. He sacrificed him self to help sick Johnsy survive from the deadly pneumonia. it was his masterpiece.

__ Hi!!! I'm Lucy and I chose the story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (it's not REALLY short, but still...) I was GOING to do Thumbelina, but Adri had explained the story so well, that I'm deciding on the Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

EXPOSITION: Quasimodo is born as a deformed hunchback that was forced to be adopted by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo. He always rung the bells of Paris, France. He is hidden from the public until the day of January 6th of 1482 came. This day was the day of the 'Feast of Fools.' Quasimodo was crowned the 'King of Fools' and this was when he met the beautiful Gypsy, Esmeralda.

RISING ACTION: Esmeralda is an innocent, kind-hearted woman that had captured the heart of many men, including Claude Frollo (the adoptive father of Quasimodo, the hunchback), the poor street poet, Pierre Gringoire, and Captain Phoebus. Unfortunately, Frollo is between an uneasy situation between love and the rules of church. So he orders Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda instead of him. Quasimodo is captured in the process of kidnapping by Captain Phoebus and his guards who comes to rescue Esmeralda from Quasimodo. Quasimodo is whipped and turned on the pillory for hours and hours. For this was tiring punishment, he begs for water and Esmeralda, seeing his pity, saves him with a cup of water.

CLIMAX: Frollo accuses Esmeralda of murdering Phoebus (when Frollo himself was the real murderer) when he sees Esmeralda and Phoebus being sympathetic towards one another and sentences Esmeralda to hanging in the gallows. As Esmeralda is led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down the bells of the church of Notre Dame and carries Esmeralda to the cathedral, where they are protected by the law of sanctuary. A street performer named Clopin orders the criminals of Paris to rescue Esmeralda from the cathedral. But as the criminals are rescuing Esmeralda, Frollo begs the King to remove the rights of Esmeralda's sanctuary as to disable Esmeralda from seeking shelter in the church. Quasimodo, though, assumes that the criminals of Paris are here to kill Esmeralda and drives them away from the cathedral. When the King's men appear, he thinks they are here to help their situation and helps them locate Esmeralda. Esmeralda is saved by Frollo and her cowardly husband, Gringoire (who Esmeralda and only married him of pity). When Frollo tries yet again to win Esmeralda's love and fails, he turns his back against Esmeralda by handing her to the troops.

FALLING ACTION: Frollo watches Esmeralda being hanged and laughs. Quasimodo, meanwhile, pushes Frollo from the high belltower of Notre Dame and lets Frollo meet his doom.

THE (not really happy) RESOLUTION: Quasimodo finds Esmeralda, forgotten and thrown gruffly in a vault and stays next to Esmeralda's dead body until he dies from hunger. After 18 months of being forgotten, the vault is re-opened, and the guards only find skeletons. When they try to asunder the two corpse, Quasimodo's bones crumble away to dust.

Thanks for reading my plot and conflict thing! I know it's sad, but... I still like it... --

[[file:///Users/ericaseohyunkim/Desktop/www.classicshorts.com:stories:EndParty.html.webloc|My STORY]]
Hi~

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">I'm Erica and this is my story.

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">EXPOSITION: Peter sees Francis having a nightmare. He wakes Francis up. They were twins with the same hair, the same eyes, the same lips and line of cheek. It is January 5th and a year passed since Mrs Henne-Falcon has given her last children's party.

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">RISING ACTION: Francis is keep on reminding of January 5th and he has bad memory of the day. He lies to Peter that he is sick and he told Peter that he didn't want to go to the party. He goes a walk with the nurse and he meets Joyce, who is two years older than him, walking alone. She is a very polite and ostentatious-or she acts like.

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">CLIMAX: However, Francis and Peter go to the party. They and other children starts the hide and seek. But Francis is afraid of dark, and that is the reason that he didn't want to come to the party.

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">FALLING ACTION: Francis is hiding in the dark. Peter is worried about Francis and starts thinking where would he go if <span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">he is Francis. There is telepathy between two. <span style="color: #b71a2b; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 31px;">**"Between the oak bookcase on the left of the study door, and the leather settee."**

<span style="color: #4acfcf; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">RESOLUTION: Francis is afraid that he night get caught; he bends down and untie his lace. Peter grabs Francis's clenched hand and whispers to him, <span style="color: #b71a2b; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">**"It's all right." There is no more terror and no more darkness.**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">**It was okay.**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">**by Erica Kim**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 31px; text-align: left;">Erin Cho <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> The 3 little pigs by //David Wiesner// <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Exposition : The 3 pigs grow up and were asked to lead independent lives from their mum and heads to the forest. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Rising Action : The 3 pigs built their own houses to live. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">The third little pig built his house out of bricks. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Climax : A hungry wolf appears and tries to eat the pigs. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">"Let me in ,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in" the wolf shouted to the first pig and blew the house down. The first little pig ran to the second pigs house. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Falling action : The first pig goes in the second pigs house with the wolf following him. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Let me in ,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in" the wolf goes again and blew the second pigs house. Both the first pig and the second ten to the third pigs house which was built by bricks. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Resolution : All the pigs were in the third pigs house. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Let me in ,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in" the wolf goes again and blew to the house but the house didn't move at all. The wolf gave up and went back the way where he came from. The pigs lived happily ever after. What a smart pig;;;

Rising Action: George starts to make a medicine that contains lots of things dirt, powder for dogs, canary seed ............
=== climax: George finishes the medicine and tried them to the animals. Amazingly, a rooster became huge. So he fed it to grandma and she became a giant too. He makes lots of types of medicine and it all works. ===


 * Hong Chan, **


 * Book: __River Boy by Tim Bowler__ **


 * __ Exposition: __**** A girl called Jess who is an expert in swimming visits the countryside where there is a source and a river. It’s a deserted place but stays there with the memory of her grandfather. **


 * __ Rising Action: __** ** Jess visualises a very mysterious boy that plays in the river but can never get contact with him. **


 * __ Climax: __** ** Jess finally talks to him but he doesn’t answer and still is an unknown character. But she then realises that the “RiverBoy“was an imitation of her grandfather when he was young. **


 * __ Falling Action: __** ** The “Riverboy”is also a great swimmer but from the source he swims to the sea to be gone, representing his grandfather who in the meantime slowly passes away. **


 * __ Resolution: __** ** Jess learns more emotions such as grief and thrill, also she learns more about her grandfather and swimming. **

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Jocelyn
Book: The McWilliames and The Burglar Alarm- one of the short stories in he book Mark Twains short stories Exposotion: Mr. McWilliams is being interviewed by Mark Twain about why the McWilliams do not set up burglar alarms, and Mr. McWillliams comes up with recalls the following story of the struggles that his family had at the first attempt to install several burglar alarm: Rising action: Out of the insistence of Mrs. McWilliam,the couple agrees to purchase a 325 dollar burglar alarm for the first floor of their house. After the burglar- alarm man fixed the mechanism, they sleep with ease and without any discomfort. for about a month. Then one night, Mr. William, smelling smoke coming from the living room, lights a candle and starts towards the stairs when he comes face-to-face with a burglar with a basket of tinware( which he mistakened for pure silver in the dark). Mr. McWilliams demands the burglar to tell him why the burglar came into his house without sounding the alarm and further requests for the burglar to stop smoking, as smoking was forbidden in the house. The burglar, looking very confused and emabaressed, replied with embarassment that he did not know that the McWilliams had installed a burglar alarm, and that if he had known, he ould surely have rung the alarm, then begs Mr. McWilliam not to tell his parents about him not sounding the alarm. Mr.McWilliam buys back his tinware, a tenth higher than it originally was, thenbade him good night,. sending him out of the second-floor window. The next day, the McWilliams install another 300 dollar burglar alarm on the second floor etc. Climax: The McWilliams have so many defected alarms that false alarms go off every night- yet in the meantime, his house is being used as a sanctuary for robbers seeking reffuge from the police. Falling Action: In the end end, the couple are so fed up at paying expensive bills for burglar alarms, not for their protection but for the burglars, that they take the entire lot of alarms and trade it for a dog( later shooting the dog.) Resolution: Mr. McWilliams concludes his tale with a firm punctuation that he would never, ever spend another cent on burglar alarms in his life, ever again.