DUST AND DECAY

EXPOSITION

• The exposition of a story is the beginning of a story saying the time, characters and setting
• Characters are - Benny, Tom, Lilah, Chong, Morgie and Nix, Greenman, White Bear, J-dog and Dr. Skillz, Sally Two Knives
• Setting - Mountainside, Rot and Ruin and Gameland
• Time - Sometime in the Future

RISING ACTION

• The rising action is the events leading to the conflict
• Main events -
• 1. Tom, Benny, Nix, Chong and lilah leave mountainside
• 2. They run into a big rhino that tries to kill them
• 3. During the rhino attack zoms also come and attack them

RISING ACTION CONTINUED

• 4. During the zom attack Nix gets cut and then Tom has to sew her cheek back up
• 5. Chong runs away due to repeated harassment by Liliah
• 6. The party revisit Lilah's old cave
• 7. Tom leaves Lilah, Benny and Nix back at the cave while he goes and looks for Chong
• 8. While Tom is searching he runs into Sally Two Knives who says the White Bear rebuilt Gameland

RISING ACTION CONTINUED

• 9. Chong gets captured by bounty hunters and is taken to gameland
• 10. Lilah abandoned Nix and Benny while she runs off
• 11. Nix and benny head East toward Gameland
• 12. The bounty hunters throw ching into a pit where he fights a zombie
• 13. Tom also goes to Gameland where he rescues Chong

CLIMAX

• The climax of a story is the main event of the story
• In this story the climax is a big fight at gameland between the good bouty hunters and bad bounty hunters

FALLING ACTION

• The falling action is the events after climax
• 1. Lilah gets shot
• 2. White bear knocks out Chong
• 3. Benny burns down Gameland

RESOLUTION

• The resolution is teh solution to the conflict of a story
• Benny and Nix get out safely

RESPONSE A

• The exposition does not really affect it because it is the second book of the series

RESPONSE B

• The events affect them because each one of them become more battle hardened
• It also affects them cause chong runs off so it causes madness

RESPONSE C

• The climax affects them because most of them have not seen that much death before

RESPONSE D

• The falling action affects them cause lilah gets killed so it kills their morale

RESPONSE E

• The resolution affects them because Benny and Nix stay alive so they can adventure more

FRIENDSHIP

• "When Chong left, the group was shattered" (Maberry page 178).
• "Morgie has known Nix since they were six" (Maberry page 47).

CITATION