Jungle Book

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or uncertainty about the outcome of events. In the story A Separate Peace the Suspense is when Gene shakes the tree limb & Finny falls & shatters the bone in his leg.


Part 2: Elements of plot

1.) Exposition- In a story or movie the exposition is the background information, which sets the scene for the conflict. In the story A Separate Peace the exposition is the following: At the beginning of the story Gene has been out of school for fifteen years & has decided to come back & visit. While visiting he saw the tree that Finny & he had jumped from into the Devon so many years a go, which brought back a lot of memories. He then remembers the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. That was the club that Finny came up with.

To be in the club you had to jump off a high tree limb & into the Devon. Since Finny was a daredevil, he decided to go first. Gene was an intellectual & was afraid to jump, but he jumped anyway. They were then late for supper, which had ...

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he was his best pal. They fell asleep on the beach. The next morning Finny wanted to go for a short swim, but it would take the boys about three hours to get back to the school.

It was seven o’clock then & Gene had a trigonometry test at ten o’clock. When they got back to Devon School, Gene took the test & failed it. Gene blamed Finny for him failing his test. That way they would be even because Gene hated Finny for breaking the school record & Finny hated Gene for making an A in every class except for the last term. Gene believed that Finny deliberately set out to wreck his studies.


2.) Conflict- In a story or movie the Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. In ...

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