Civil Peace Short Story Essay

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“Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe had a strong plot. The story’s plot has an exposition, initial incident, rising action, climax, and falling action. The exposition of a story describes the characters and the setting. In “Civil Peace” Chinua did an amazing job describing the main character, Jonathan; he also mentioned all of Jonathan’s family and how one of his sons had been removed from the family by death. Chinua mentioned that the setting was in Nigeria after the Civil War. Achebe also talked about Jonathan’s discovery of his bike and how it helped him make 150 pounds. The initial incident of the story, which leads into the rising action. The initial incident in “Civil Peace” was when Jonathan’s house was blown up and he had to move to another town. This lead to the rising action, which is when the conflicts start to happen. In the story, the rising action was when someone stole Jonathan’s egg-rasher check, the thief came to Jonathan demanding 100 pounds, but Jonathan did not have the money. The climax of the story is the highest point and when the character resolves the conflict. The climax in “Civil Peace” was when Jonathan gave the thief his egg-rasher check. The falling action is when things start to get easier for the characters in the story. The falling action of “Civil Peace” is when the thieves leave Jonathan’s house and how the next day Jonathan and his family wake up and act calm about what happened the other night. Finally at the end, the theme and overall purpose of this story is that one should be thankful for all the things they have in their
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