LIT2020 FINAL REVIEW 1 Harrison Bergeron a Intro The couple is sitting on the couch watching TV To make everyone equal everyone has to be brought down Noises in headpieces make smart people dumb weight makes string people weak etc Year 2021 b Rising The TV is broadcasting ballerinas who can t dance Some have masks and some are weighed down News alerts says to be on alert Prisoner has escaped It s Harrison the couple s child c Climax Harrison shows up on the broadcast He s 14 years old and he s the tallest strongest best looking guy He busts out of all his restrictions He declares himself emperor He asks a ballerina to declare herself his empress They start dancing Handicapper general Diana Moon Glampers walks in and shoots and kills them d Falling action The Bergeron s watch this whole thing unravel and don t really react They ignore all feelings e Resolution Everything goes back to normal and nobody is affected by Harrison s actions 2 Powder a Introduction The dad wants to take the son on a ski trip before Christmas The mom doesn t trust the dad and hesitantly accepts as long as they re back in time for Christmas b Rising Action They go on the trip Its snowing on the morning of Christmas Eve and there s this fresh powder so the dad wants to ski one more time before they leave He keeps going again and again and again The son gets nervous They finally leave When they are leaving they see that the road is closed They can t get home They go to a diner to wait for the trooper guarding the barricade to leave Once he does they move the barricade and get on their way c Climax They drive through the road amidst the storm They can t see the road at all and there are no tracks in front of them The kid is worried that they get caught that they don t get home in time and the family splits up d Falling They talk about how the kid always thinks ahead e Resolution They make it home in time a Introduction Yunior dating Magda Yunior cheats on Magda with Cassandra in the beginning They try to work things out anyway They go on a trip planned to Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic Yunior is from Dominican Republic b Rising Action He takes her back to his home country he s enamored with the places she s like eh wants to see beaches and resorts Meets his family sees landmarks and stuff They go to Casa de Campo resort She says he can do his thing and she can do hers separately She s not sold on the fact that they are getting back together Yunior 3 The Sun the Moon the Stars 4 The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven goes off and has drinks with the vice president of the country and his body guard Barbaro c Climax They drive him out of the country and take him to like a hole cave in the ground Yagua They grab his legs and dangle him down Supposed to be visionary magical experience d Falling Action He starts thinking of when he and Magda started ending Realizes that as soon as you start thinking of the beginning it s the end e Resolution Goes back to Magda s and says we can make it work all we have to do is try but you know its not going to happen a Introduction First person narrator It s late at night He tells us that he used to work as a 7 11 cashier He was an Indian American from the Spokane reservation living in Seattle He s in a dysfunctional relationship where he breaks things and leaves to drive around when he s mad He is a victim of racism b Rising Action He s upset so he goes into a 7 11 and he tries to freak the guy out by acting all sketchy He gives us details about how the guy is scared He is trying to buy a creamsicle c Climax He drives back to the Spokane reservation Everyone has been waiting for him to come back A white guy who is living at the reservation outplays him in basketball d Falling Action He has weird dreams In one of them he has an affair with a white woman who is with a white politician The politician kills him The Indians and white go into an escalating war e Resolution No resolution This is not linear No climax Introduction Married couple lives in Boston A power outage is coming up Every night the power goes out for 1 hour at 8pm for 5 days The first night they know that its coming but they are startled by it They agree to share and tell stories when the power is out for that hour This comes from Shova s family that did so in India Shova admits that she had checked his address book when they first started dating to see if he had saved her number He admits that he was so excited on their first date that he forgot to tip the waiter He went back the next day to tip them We find out that Shova was pregnant and she went into labor early and lost the baby Shukumar was in a conference in Baltimore and missed that important time b Rising Action The power continues to go out every night They reveal more and more secrets to each other He confesses to cheating on his test to selling a sweater that she bought for him to have drinking money and to keeping a picture of a hot girl in a magazine It s the last night and the power doesn t go out but they want it to because they like confessing sharing They turn them off 5 A Temporary Matter a 6 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline c Climax She turns them back on to tell him that she got a new apartment aka she s leaving him The marriage won t work because they ve lost their child d Falling Action He tells her that their baby was a boy It makes their loss more real They ve both fucked each other up e Resolution They turn off the lights again and cry together in the dark a Introduction Takes place in a Civil War themed park Main character works for Mr Alzuga He s a verisimilitude inspector He talks to the ghosts of the family who died on those grounds There s been gangs of teenagers who have been destroying the park and vandalizing They need to come up with a way to stop them b Rising Action They hire a crap actor to walk around with a musket He ended up tied to a cannon with knives shooting into his penis They hire a Vietnam vet who s kind of a loose cannon His name is Samuel There s a baptism at the park Gang members run into the room where the baptism is …