- Exposition: introduction of characters and setting.
- Rising Action: the event leading up to climax (interest and suspense occurs).
- Climax: turning point of the story. Main character face the conflict.
- Falling Action: loose end of the plots are tied up. Conflict and climax is resolved.
- Resolution: story comes to reasonable ending.
Exmple of Plot Diagram for Ender's Game
2. Stories need to be structured because constructing to stories help people to organize their thoughts much better. Organizing thoughts help people to easily connect themselves to the texts. As it says in reader response, connecting person and texts makes it the real story and without it, it is not a stroy. People need to construct understanding to know strong about the story. For example, there is no final building without constructing from the basic stuff. Also, if people just do the constructing roughly, final product will be weak and not sturdy. This is same as reading the stories. Constructing step by step helps readers to dig deep into the story. This helps them to realize what they couldn't have seen if they didn't think deep. People need to use plot diagram as the bone of the construction and this will lead readers to get a strong understanding of the stories.
3. When I first read the "Marigolds", I thought that Lizabeth was the bad one because she destroyed all the Marigold garden of the Ms. Lottie. However, as I organized the story with the plot diagram, I started to think differently. I changed my mind that I was not only Lizabeth's fault that she destroyed the Marigold garden. I figured out that environment that she was in has to do it with out come of the destruction. First, she had playful friends. Her friends were throwing stones and playing noughty tricks to Ms. Lottie. Second, she was poor. Her family was very poor and her father got frustrated. They were so poor that her father got the coat from the owner who he work for. Finally, his miserable life lead him to cry. Lizabeth was shocked because she has never seen his father cry. This motivated her to destroy the garden. Regarding to all these surrounding environment, it is not all Lizabeth's fault of destroying the garden.
4. I my opinion, major theme of the "Marigold" is just one simple destruction can ruin or effect crucially on people. In the story, Lizabeth destroyed Ms. Lottie's marigold garden after seeing her father cry. She ran up to the garden of Ms. Lottie and started pulling out marigolds. Soon after, Ms. Lottie came out but she didn't do anything but just looked at her destroyed garden. Garden for Ms. Lottie was not just simply "garden" but it was her last beauty and hope. After this, even though Lizabeth apologized and convinced her to plant marigold again, she didn't because it was great hurt for her. For Lizabeth, marigold garden was just a garden that didn't fit with the surrounding environment. However, it was very important garden for Ms. Lottie were there are all the hopes and beauties. This is the reason why the theme is simple destruction can
be great destruction to someone.
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