Tuesday, December 11, 2012

ELEMENTS OF PLOT




Exposition: The exposition of the book Pandemonium is at the beginning of the book. Since this is the second book of the trilogy, the book starts off exactly where the first book left off.   In Pandemonium, Lena is torn between a past she can't forget, Alex, the love she left behind, and the promise of a new future.  The chapters alternate between,then,Lena's struggle to survive after her harrowing escape into the Wilds, and now, her present mission as an undercover spy for the resistance movement. This is also known as self to self conflict AND self to world conflict

Rising Action: In this book, the rising action includes Lena's mission in
the Wilds. She is assigned to be a spy that sits in on DFA meetings to see what they are planning. In one particular meeting, when Lena and Julian both get kidnapped, she starts experiencing mixed emotions for Julian. She doesn't want to replace Alex-her former love-but she also wants to push away the thoughts of him and move on. So, in the rising action, Lena has a hard time figuring out what/who to choose, so she is experiencing an internal conflict.


Climax:  The climax of this book is when Julian and Lena break out of captivity. After being locked up in a jail cell together for about a week, Lena finally realized that she knew how to break out. Although it took some time to realize that she had to kill almost all the guards, she finally had the courage to do so. When she did break out...she finally felt as if she was free. But, of course, she was wrong. Lena and Julian went through many obstacles as a team, and they finally reached the real world where the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and everything was normal. All of these obstacles they faced were self to world conflict because they dealt with nature most of the time. Therefore, this was an external conflict.


Resolution: In this book, the conflict is never completely resolved. Therefore, there is no resolution. Still, there is a lot of suspense and foreshadowing at the end of the book. This is mainly because this book is the second of a trilogy, so it is expected to be a cliff hanger.

At the end of the book, the author leaves the reader in a very suspenseful mood. The last few paragraphs change the books expected direction and takes the book to a whole new level. This makes the reader very hooked on the book, and makes them await the last book in the trilogy.
Overall, even though there is no "official" resolution to this book, there is a lot of suspense and foreshadowing at the end of this book.

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