Plot Line
This is the story's conclusion where the central conflict is ultimately resolved, loose ends are tied up, and lingering questions are answered, providing a sense of closure for the reader or audience.
What is resolution?
This is why Gillian isn't happy about inheriting $1000 from his uncle.
What is, it is too much money to spend easily but not enough to make him rich?
This is the rule that Gillian has to follow when he decides how to spend the money.
What is he has to tell the lawyers exactly how he spent all of it?
This word is related to eating.
What is gustatory?
The sequence of events that occur after the story's climax, where the intensity of the conflict lessens and the tension winds down, leading toward the story's resolution.
What is falling action?
This is how much money Gillian's uncle had before he died.
What is $500,000?
This is what Miss Lotta Lauriere said that caused Gillian to change his mind about buying her a pendant.
What is she said that she wanted a more expensive one that she saw on Della Stacey?
A literary technique where the author explicitly tells the reader about a character's personality, traits, or motivations through straightforward statements or descriptions.
What is direct characterization?
The highest point of tension and a turning point in the story, where the central conflict reaches its peak and the protagonist faces their greatest challenge.
What is climax?
This is the question that Gillian asked multiple people.
How would you spend a thousand dollars?
This is what the blind pencil selling man shows Gillian.
What is a checkbook with a $1785 balance?
A literary technique where an author reveals a character's personality, motivations, and traits through their actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them, following the principle of "show, don't tell".
What is indirect characterization?
The sequence of events that follow the inciting incident and build tension, conflict, and suspense, escalating the story toward its climax.
What is rising action?
This is how Old Bryson feels about Gillian?
What is spoiled and irresponsible?
This is what Gillian does after he learns that Miss Hayden was left with nothing.
What is he gives the $1000 to her?
This is who you are as a human being. It begins developing at a young age and school has a huge impact on the development of it.
What is identity?
The introductory part of the story where essential background information is provided to the audience, including the initial setting, characters, and the fundamental situation or context before the main conflict unfolds
What is exposition?
This is the climax of the story.
What is when Gillian gets the envelope before the lawyer and tears it to pieces?
This is what was supposed to happen if Gillian used the $1000 unselfishly.
What is he would receive $50,000?
This is the relationship between the people who participated in the Primetime experiments and the Germans who followed Adolf Hitler.
What is the both groups show that people's actions are controlled by their need to fit in?