Freytag's Pyramid
A. The American South around 1895; one week in early March. An average family is in a court room fighting to save there dad from going to jail for an unproven case of property damage.
B. Sarty, the protagonist leaves with his family when his father is told to leave the area even though he is not proven guilty. They move to work on a man named Major De Spain's ranch. When they get there, Sarty's father, Snopes tracks cow manure into De Spain's house on his rug, as an insult. They are ordered to clean the rug, and when they do De Spain says it was not done properly and tells Mr. Snopes that he must work off the debt of the rug in 20 bushels. When they say that they will not pay, they have to return to court. When he is accused of burning the rug he returns to De Spain's ranch yelling burn.
C. Sarty chaes after his father in the middle of the night, however De Spain gets to him first. Sarty hears three gunshots and assumes his father is dead.
D.The son continues walking around the town in shock and ends up near a forest at midnight.
E. Sarty runs away from his family and terrible life to go into the woods.
B. Sarty, the protagonist leaves with his family when his father is told to leave the area even though he is not proven guilty. They move to work on a man named Major De Spain's ranch. When they get there, Sarty's father, Snopes tracks cow manure into De Spain's house on his rug, as an insult. They are ordered to clean the rug, and when they do De Spain says it was not done properly and tells Mr. Snopes that he must work off the debt of the rug in 20 bushels. When they say that they will not pay, they have to return to court. When he is accused of burning the rug he returns to De Spain's ranch yelling burn.
C. Sarty chaes after his father in the middle of the night, however De Spain gets to him first. Sarty hears three gunshots and assumes his father is dead.
D.The son continues walking around the town in shock and ends up near a forest at midnight.
E. Sarty runs away from his family and terrible life to go into the woods.