Greasy Lake Climax

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Plot is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are the five elements of plot. The short story Greasy Lake uses plot as a single literary device.
Exposition is the beginning of a short story. The setting is described, characters are introduced, and the main character is introduced to conflict or conflicts. The Greasy Lake story actually takes place a Greasy Lake, mainly in the parking lot. Three nineteen year old boys are bored on summer break and head up to Greasy Lake. The author foreshadows by making the statement “This was a tactical error, as damaging and irreversible in its way as Westmorland’s decision to dig in at Khe Sanh.” The boys …show more content…

The boys walk up to the car and shortly realize that the car does not belong to someone they know. A strange man gets out of the car and strikes the main character. He then assaults one of the main character’s friends. As the second friend jumps on the man’s back, the main character walks over to the car and pulls out a crow bar. At this point in the story my interest does pick up. I wonder what is going to happen next and if the main character may kill this man.
This is where I believe the climax of the story is. The main character is facing conflict head on and needs to decide what is the next course of action is. He swings the crowbar and hits the man in the head, which ends his assaults on the three boys. A girl then gets out of the car. The main character then has another decision to make. All three boys walk over to the girl and attempt to rape her.
A car pulls up and the boys freeze. Rather than be caught they head into the woods. At this point in the story all the loose ends begin to be tied up and the conflict and climax are taken care. The main character stopped the man from assaulting them further, which eliminated that conflict, and the car showing up stops them from potentially raping the girl. The strange man did get some sort of revenge by damaging the main character’s car. After the strange man and his buddies leave the boys come out of the

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