CAUGHT IN THE ACT

• By Nixon, Joan Lowery
• Chase McCain

SETTING

• 1856
• New York City
• Farm in Missouri

MAJOR CHARACTER: MIKE KELLEY

• 12 year old Orphan
• Adopted by the Friedrich's

MINOR CHARACTER: GUNTER

• Mikes brother
• A bully to Mike
• Always gets Mike in trouble

PROTAGONIST

ANTAGONIST

DYNAMIC CHARACTER: MIKE KELLY

• Beginning:thief and a pick pocket
• End:became an orphan and learned his lesson

STATIC CHARACTER

EXTERNAL CONFLICT

• Mike Kelly wants to punch Gunter in the face for telling
• Friedrich lies about him and always getting him in trouble.

INTERNAL CONFLICT

• Mike Kelly chooses not to punch Gunter in the face
• because he will get whipped by a leather belt.

EXPOSITION

• A kid girl named Jenifer
• A brother named Jeff
• A grandma that tells story's from a journal.
• And it started with a kid named Mike Kelly

RISING ACTION

• Mike Kelly was an orphan and was adopted by a man named Mr. Friedrich.
• Mike Kelly was there for a long time and Gunter is his brother and bullies him.
• Then one day he saw something.

CLIMAX

• Mike saw Mr. Friedrich bury something in the woods
• he thought it was a dead body and that his other brother, Reuben,
• was next.

FALLING ACTION

• Mike told everybody about what Friedrich buried.
• They all wanted to check it out.
• Friedrich tried to stop them,but he couldn't.

RESOLUTION

• He dug it out and it was cash and valuables.
• Mike was embarrassed because it was not a dead body.
• But Friedrich did not take Mike back to the orphan home.
• The End! The grandma said there was more!