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__**Plot (2)**__
__Plot:__ The careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect. Plot is the series of happenings in a literary work and is the result of the writer’s deliberate selection of interrelated actions (what happens) and choice of arrangement (the order of happening) in presenting and resolving a conflict. The plot of a story usually involves a Crisis, a Climax and a Resolution.

__Crisis:__ The point at which the action turns and the fortune of the protagonist changes for better or worse. //Example:// In "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor when Manley Pointer takes a flask of whiskey and a pack of cards out of a hollow Bible and Hulga realises that Manley Pointer is not "good country people" (282). This changes the protagonist's (Hulga) fortune for the worse because it is after this realisation that Manley Pointer takes her leg.

__Climax:__ The moment of highest intensity and interest in a drama or story. It is the peak of rising action. In some works, the climax follows closely upon the crisis. //Example:// In __The Awakening__ by Kate Chopin, Edna's suicide at the end of the book is the climax because all her previous actions have led to her full awakening. This peak of rising action results in the moment of highest intensity which is her suicide. //Example:// In __Chronicle of a Death Foretold__ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez the climax of the novel is when Santiago Nasar is encountered by the Vicario brothers and is stabbed to death. Even though the reader knows about Santiago's death from the first line of the book the reader does not yet know exaclty how it happens.

__Resolution:__ The final unwinding, or resolving, of the conflicts, complications and crisis of the plot of a fiction or drama. //Example:// In "Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor, the resolution is after Sarah Ruth beats Parker and she finds him crying by the Pecan tree. Parker crying can be considered an unwinding of the conflict between him and his wife (which is the climax). //Example:// In __The Stranger__ by Albert Camus the resolution is at the end of the novel when Meursault gets condemned by being placed in the guilliotine and being decapitated.


 * By: Marie, Iris, and Carolina**