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what is the purpose of the rising action, climax, and falling actions?

2007-11-29 14:31:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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That is how you craft a story. Imagine it like an arc - or a rainbow shape. You start on the lower left with what I call Ground Zero. Nothing is happening. Average ordinary day in the life of your character. Then you have a conflict come along. Your character has to resolve it. Your rising actions are the attempts by your character to resolve the conflict. When they finally resolve it, you have your climax. That's the top of the arc. Then things go back down the other side, until they come back to the bottom, what I call Ground Zero Plus - when life is back to normal, but changed just a little due to what the characters went through. They are just a little wiser, a little bit more wary, a little different.
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2007-11-29 14:42:39 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0 0

That is how you craft a story. Imagine it like an arc - or a rainbow shape. You start on the lower left with what I call Ground Zero. Nothing is happening. Average ordinary day in the life of your character. Then you have a conflict come along. Your character has to resolve it. Your rising actions are the attempts by your character to resolve the conflict. When they finally resolve it, you have your climax. That's the top of the arc. Then things go back down the other side, until they come back to the bottom, what I call Ground Zero Plus - when life is back to normal, but changed just a little due to what the characters went through. They are just a little wiser, a little bit more wary, a little different.

2007-11-30 13:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by Twilight Luver!!! 4 · 0 0

It is my opinion, that the purpose of writing a book is to get people to want to read it. There are tools to be used, and some of these are to push the action forward and engulf the reader into the action. Rising action does this leading to the climax of the whole story, and then falling actions, to let the scenes tie up loose ends for the reader and to allow the story to go from beginning, rising action, climax, and then falling actions, and what is called "a satisfactory ending."
The Pink Lady

2007-11-29 14:43:42 · answer #3 · answered by pink lady 1 · 0 0

to make the story more interesting and a page turner! who wouldnt want it to be far more interesting!!!

rising action - to where the plot starts to be interesting.

climax - where the interest is.

falling actions - when youd discover something valuable.

2007-11-29 15:05:32 · answer #4 · answered by shanekeavy 5 · 0 0

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