What Is The Initial Incident Of The Cat In The Hat

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Initial incident
The problem in cat in the hat is that the children are bored. The children are bored because there mother is out and they have nothing to do but sit and stare at each other. The cat then show up to solve their problems
Exposition:
The cat in the hat starts with the children being bored and stuck at home while their mother is out. The children can't go out and play ball because it is cold and raining. They have nothing else to do but sit, and waiting gets boring. The children talk to each other about how bored they are. Then in a little while, something happens that will change their day.
Rising Action:
The kids are talking about how bored they are, then they hear a bump, then they see a giant white cat walk in their door. The cat appears, dressed in gloves, a hat and a bow tie. He begins to talk about the …show more content…

Climax:
When the cat shows up at the children's house he has lots of games and fun things to help them out of their boredom. The children are happy about the cat coming to their house. But the children's fish is not happy about the surprise visitor in their house. The cat explains that he means no harm but the fish does not believe him. The cat entertains the children by showing how many things he could hold, one of them being the fish. Then the cat falls on his head and drops everything, breaking things in his fall.
Falling Action:
The fish tries to get the cat out because he shouldn't be here while the children's mother isn't. But the cat once again ignores the cat and stays to show another game to the kids. The cat brings in a box of fun, the box contained thing one and thing two, the cat explains that they will be harmless. The fish once again objects to the new creatures in his home. Thing one and thing two run around and wreck some of the children's house

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