Freytag

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Freytags Pyramid Definitions

• Exposition The characters and setting.
• Problem The issue or conflict the main character
  faces.
• Rising Action Events leading to climax.
• Climax The most exciting part of the story.
• Falling Action The events after the climax.
• Resolution/Theme The solution to the problem/
  the message the author is trying to send out to
  the reader.

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Freytags Pyramid
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Paul Fisher (Main Character 1)

• Paul and his family just moved to Tangerine,
  Florida.
• He loves to play soccer.
• His position is goalie.
• Wears thick glasses for everyday use and special
  goggles when he plays soccer.
• His parents told him that the reason he had
  glasses was because he Stared at an eclipse for
  too long before he moved to Tangerine. The truth
  was different.

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Erik Fisher (Main Character 2)

• Erik is a football player.
• His position is place kicker.
• Has someone fix his problems for him at school.
  However at home he will fix his own problems and
  not get caught.
• Ex On page 205 (part 3) Erik smacks Tino across
  the face. On page 211, Erik has his friend
  Arthur smack Luis (Tinos brother) with a
  blackjack.

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Luis Cruz (Main Character 3)

• Played Goalie when he played soccer.
• Is the brother of Tino and Theresa.
• He fell out of a tree when he was younger, hurt
  his knee and stabbed himself accidentally. He
  couldnt play soccer anymore.
• He helps out with the Tangerine Grove on their
  land.

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Tino and Theresa (Main Characters 4 and 5)

• Brother and sister of Luis Cruz.
• Tino plays soccer for Tangerine Middle School.
• Theresa helps out new students at Tangerine
  Middle and shows them around.
• They are both friends with Paul Fisher.

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Arthur Bauer (Main Character 6)

• Helps out Erik Fisher.
• Part of the Lake Windsor High School football
  team.
• Does most of Eriks dirty work.
• Drives a Land Cruiser and gives Erik rides.

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Setting

• Tangerine, FL
• Present Day

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PROBLEM

• Paul doesnt like getting caught in the Erik
  Fisher Football Dream. Erik always thinks hes
  more superior and better than everyone else. He
  thinks that the world should be his way, only
  because he is a football player. Paul doesnt
  like Eriks attitude of a football player and the
  people he hangs around. He also doesnt like how
  Erik does that most horrible things and never
  gets caught by anyone. When Paul wants to tell
  people about the things Erik does, he cant get
  the words out of this mouth. Paul is stuck in the
  middle of the Erik Fisher Football Dream AND
  stuck with being a silent kid who knows the truth
  about Erik and the things he does.

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Rising Action 1

• Tino, Theresa, and Victor go to Pauls house
  for further work on a project for school. After
  they work on Pauls fathers laptop, they go
  outside to play some soccer and practice for
  their next game. Erik and Arthur arrive and see
  them playing. Erik starts making fun of Tino,
  Theresa, and Victor. With the heat building up on
  them, Tino starts to talk back to Erik. With
  furry, Erik extends his arm and punches Tino.
  Wincing in pain, Tino is on the ground. Erik
  leaves the scene, not to get caught.

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Rising Action 2

• Luis Cruz, the brother of Tino and Theresa,
  goes up to Erik after football practice. He
  stands up to him and says
• You would smack a little kid in the face,
  right? Why dont you come over here and try to
  smack me? With a blackjack in his hand, Arthur
  does Eriks light work by hitting him in the
  head with the blackjack.

Blackjack A small hand weapon consisting of a
piece of leather metal with a strap or a springy
shaft for a handle. "Blackjack." Merriam Webster
Online. 16 Feb. 2008 lthttp//www.merriam-webster.c
om/dictionary/blackjackgt.
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Rising Action 3

• Luis Cruz dies. The hit in the head with the
  blackjack caused an aneurysm. (like a blood clot)
  But no one knows that. No oneexcept for Paul.
  Wanting to go to the funeral, he gets a call from
  Theresa, warning him not to go to the funeral.
  Paul thinks its because they know what happened
  to Luis. He thinks that they know about the
  blackjack across the head.

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Climax

• Tino and Victor arrive at the football
  banquet. However they arent there to
  congratulate Erik and Arthur on their hard work.
  While they are walking up on the stage, Tino and
  Victor go toward them and start beating on them.
  Punching, kicking, and making them bleed, the
  other football players have to try to make sure
  the angry kids dont get away before their
  punishment. Victor safely gets away. However,
  Tino is stuck in the arms of one of the players.
  Paul comes to the rescue by jumping the player
  and letting Tino get away.

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Falling Action

• At a meeting being held at the Fisher Household,
  police show up. They put handcuffs on Arthur and
  tell him that hes under arrest for the murder of
  Luis. At the police station the next day, Arthur
  tells the officers that Erik put him up to it.
  But the argument still continued on. Erik claimed
  he didnt put Arthur up to it and Arthur claims
  he did and so forth.

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Resolution/ Theme

• The theme of this novel would be if you
  fight fire with fire, youre only going to get
  burned. The sparks of the fire in this novel
  happened when Erik hit Tino. Then the fire
  developed once Luis went to Erik and Arthur hit
  him with the blackjack. The other fire is when
  Tino and Victor attack Erik and Arthur. It causes
  more conflict between people. The people who got
  burned by the fires were Luis, Erik and
  Arthur. Luis got burned because he died when
  trying to defend Tino. Arthur got burned when
  the police arrested him for killing Luis. Lastly,
  Erik got burned because his good friend
  Arthur Bauer tried to rat him out on convincing
  him to kill Luis.

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THE END
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