Title: The Seventh tower "The Fall" Author: Garth Nix Type: Science Fiction Publication date: 2000 Number of Pages: 195 Plot Summary This book is a Science fiction book that is the fist of a series of books called The Seventh Tower. It starts out with a boy by the name of Tal Graile-Rarem receiving word that his dad was missing on a mission that he was doing for the queen. And that is when every thing goes down hill. This is because his dad has the only good sunstone that will allow Tal to pass into the world of Aerian. Aerian is the world where a boy goes to receive his spirit shadow when he turns fourteen. Right now he as what is called a shadow guard, the shadow guard is his actually shadow only it can independently …show more content…
He is a thirteen-year-old boy and is of normal height and stature for his age. He is not always sure of him self in this story and he relies a lot on his shadow because of this. The other main character in this book is Milla of the icecarls. She is the same age as Tal but is a lot bigger and stronger. She is the brave one of the story willing to risk her life to do anything that she can to complete her task that was given to her. Setting The story takes place for the most part out in a wasteland. There is hard any light at all because of the nothing ness that is in the sky. The temperature is extremely cold so you need a lot of clothes to keep u warm, which in the case of Tal and Milla was wearing. The time that this takes place is in the present but only it is taking place on another world in some other galaxy. Then only other setting of this book is the castle that sits up on top of this mountain. It is very warm in the castle and if filled with plenty of light generated by sunstones. Climax The begging of the story right when he fall back into the black and is carried far away from the castle is the climax of this story. Since this book is just the begging of a series of books the climax is not resolved it rather starts the big adventure off. This was a bit unbelievable though, but that is because this book is science fiction so most of the things in this book are things that would not
With this took into place, the book is at its ending point. Only a few things are left to happen until they are
In the opening lines of the story we are drawn into climax of the story. We are
Survivors guilt.... An emotion brought on by a traumatic experience. Thing like watching a fellow soldier or close friend die. In the story, “ The Seventh man” The narrator Goes through watching the death of his best friend K. This experience bring on survivor's guilt talked about in the story “The Moral logic of survivor's guilt.” Even though the narrator of the story had watched K die, he should have been able to forgive himself. Although there is a cost to surviving, no matter what he told himself it was not his fault that K had died so tragically.
The plot in a fiction text is important in keeping the reader's attention. The majority of the story builds towards a climax. This climax is where the peak of action, suspense or thrill takes place, which then leads to the resolution of the story. As in "Lord of the Flies" the author continued to increase conflict between the boys until a full-scale war takes place, which is the climax. The building
By definition, “a climax is a structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis. It is a decisive moment or a turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action. Thus, a climax is the point at which a conflict or crisis reaches its peak that calls for a resolution or denouncement” (LiteraryDevices.net). It’s self-evident that any different books, collection of events, novels, short-stories, and other types of literary works would all have incommensurable climaxes, so what would be worth comparing is how they fit with the definition of a climax. Malala,”...didn’t see the two young men step out into the road and bring the van to a sudden halt. [She] didn’t get a chance to answer their question “Who is Malala?” or [She] would have explained to them why they should let [those] girls go to school as well as their own sisters and daughters.” Three bullets were fired at her in quick succession and the memoir loses its personality, only being able to convey what was happening, while she was in her coma, using the bits and pieces others tell Yousafzai. There was no moment of pressured decision, but instead a violent turning point. The Glass Castle’s climax happens when, for the first time, the reader sees J. Walls’ father punish her for the first time. In a flurry of emotion, she runs through the woods until she tires out and slows to a walk, then she
After the climax, the story continues with the falling action. The falling action includes the events directly following the climax and preceding the resolution. The author uses the falling action to answer previous questions in the story, while also presenting an unexpected scenario that continues to
What loose ends are wrapped up? Some events help lead the protagonist to a resolution for their internal or external conflict. Some of the falling action may seem like rising action. The falling action of the story was when they found out that they found a planet, and when they had to say goodbye to each other.
What is the climax or the point of the highest tension? When do things begin to change? Explain in detail how this changes the outcome of the story.
Moreover, in the Ordeal the hero faces his greatest fear and dies. The hero may also face the death of someone close to him, from which the hero will have more reason to complete the journey. From this death the hero will come back stronger and even more prepared to defeat the villain. On to the Reward stage, the hero receives a reward or treasure because he finished the journey, but because of death he can lose it. On The Road Back the hero decides to leave the special world with the treasure that he has earned, now he must go home as a hero. When he is resurrected he is purified and is made stronger than he ever was before, this sacrifice that he made brought peace to the world and the villain was stopped. No longer will the villain return, and for now on the hero will be praised because he has earned it. Finally, in the Return With The Elixir Stage the hero proceeds with the journey or decides to return back home to the Ordinary World with the treasure that has the power to make the hero’s world how he pleases, at the end of the story the hero is now everything he set out to
Nearing the end of the story piggy is killed this is the breaking point for both Ralph and jack and breaks into total war between the two once jack sees his
Concluding is the interpretation of the short story. This story of prose is a story about an old woman ready to die and as she makes her last visit to the church she only gazes up at the sky and she has nothing to say. She is unwanted by the church congregation and they make it known by throwing her outside in the cold. She only looks up and down the street and sees Jesus coming for her. The tone of this story indicates that she is still alive throughout the church scene until she is outside and sees Jesus. Then the tone changes and reality sets in. She has in fact, passed away and Jesus is coming for
The Freedom Tower also known as “One World Trade Center” is the tallest skyscraper in the western hemisphere, and the fifth tallest skyscraper in our planet earth. The building structure consists of 104 stories can also be described as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center. The Building location is 285 Fulton Street, Manhattan New York, United States 10007, as depicted in the map below Figure 1.
4. The climax of the story is found when Jack and his newfound friends come up upon some robbers in the house the animals and Jack were planning to occupy that evening. Jack skillfully devises a plan to rid the house of the robbers and uses his animal friends to help him. With teamwork, the plan becomes a success and they are able to spend the night in the house the robbers had just fled from. This paragraph from "How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune" unravels the climax of the story and allows readers to engage in a suspenseful event, and it states,
In this book, you follow the life of Sam who has never had a completely normal life. At Sam’s young age his brother died in a fire and ever since then, he has been haunted by vivid nightmares that leave him gasping for breath. His parents keep reassuring him that these dreams mean nothing, but, they are keeping something from him. On one ordinary day of school, Sam’s life changed forever when he was snatched from his class by a team of strange people who took him on to a plane, and then taken to a place called The Academy, where he finds out the truth about his life. Sam and his new friends, Alex and Eva, have been told about a prophecy that speaks of thirteen people who can save the world
The conclusion is what the reader looks forward to the most in a book and the original ending is definitely the ending that is fit for being “the most important part of a story.” or in this case, Great