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All stories eventually reach a "point of no return," the climax. The climax is an event that changes the course of a story, for better or worse. For example, the climax of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" happens when Romeo murders Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel. In your plot summary, define the consequences or results of this point in the ...
Apr 18, 2023 · 1. Read the story. It will be very difficult to summarize a story without actually reading it. So crack open your book, or plug in some headphones and listen to it on your iPod. Don't always trust the internet sites that claim to summarize books, because they aren't always accurate.
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Full Plot Summary. The grandmother tries to convince her son, Bailey, and his wife to take the family to east Tennessee for vacation instead of Florida. She points out an article about The Misfit, an escaped convict heading toward Florida, and adds that the children, John Wesley and June Star, have already been there.
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Full Plot Summary. Mathilde Loisel is “pretty and charming” but feels she has been born into a family of unfavorable economic status. She was married off to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, who can afford to provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle.
Full Plot Summary. The story opens with a note that the tale was found written among the papers of a deceased man named Diedrich Knickerbocker. The transcript tells the story of a young man named Ichabod Crane, who was the schoolteacher in a place called Sleepy Hollow thirty years earlier, around the year 1790.
The Lottery Summary. “The Lottery” is a short story by Shirley Jackson that depicts a small town’s annual lottery. A black box full of paper slips is brought to the town square. The town’s ...
