Bullet Point
Transcript: Jack Ford Climax Exposition In the falling action of this story, the bodies of Doc and Greer were found. Doc was stuffed in the bathroom in his trailer. Greer was found in a secret closet in her old house where Sonny met both of them. Next, Wyatt moved back to East Canton, where his family was anxiously waiting for him to return. After his return, Wyatt went to court. He was eventually charged with aiding and abetting the escape of a fugitive from a state prison and harboring a fugitive. After this ruling, Wyatt made a deal with the DA that he would join the Army as soon as he turned 18. When the whole court case was over, Wyatt's abusive step-dad came home. He gained much more respect for Wyatt, and was actually nice to him. In the rising action, Greer gives Wyatt's dad, Sonny, Wyatt's phone number. Wyatt's dad then calls him for the first time. After talking to his, Wyatt's interest is sparked as to whether his dad is actually guilty; many of the inmates in the prison believe he is innocent. Wyatt starts to talk to his dad more and more, becoming more curious about Sonny's past and possible innocence. Eventually, Wyatt starts to visit him at the prison, and is convinced that Sonny is innocent and that he was just taking the blame to cover up for someone he cared about. Wyatt encourages Sonny to try to prove that he isn't guilty. Eventually, Sonny breaks out of prison to try to prove his innocence. He, surprisingly to Wyatt, meets up with Greer while Wyatt is buying breakfast to bring to her at her old house. When Wyatt arrives at his house, Greer, according to Sonny, has left with one of her old boyfriends. Wyatt finds out that the cops are chasing Sonny and that they don't have much time to gather evidence for Sonny's innocence. Wyatt drives Sonny to Doc's house. Doc is one of the people that Sonny supposedly committed the shooting with, but he had his prison sentence reduced for testifying for the prosecution. Bullet Point Resolution The climax of the story occurs when Sonny and Wyatt arrive at Doc's house. Wyatt was supposed to leave and let Sonny collect his evidence, but he hid in his car and watched the events unfold instead. Doc ends up getting killed in a fight with Sonny and so does his girlfriend. Sonny finds the long lost murder weapon, a pistol. This was the key to his innocence. He heads to the police station in Doc's truck to show the new evidence. On his way there, Wyatt catches up to him in his car and trys to stop him, but Sonny wants him to stay out of the situation, and nudges him off of the road. Wyatt comes back and hits Sonny's car a little harder and he flies off of the road and totals his car. When Wyatt drives over to him, Sonny gets out of his car. Sonny, furious at Wyatt, tells him that he killed Greer. After he says this, Wyatt runs at Sonny and tackles him. After a quick fight, the police arrive and Sonny holds Wyatt at gunpoint. Wyatt realizes this is not the man he had exchanged phone calls with and had visited in prison. This was a cruel and heartless man. Wyatt broke out of Sonny's grip and yelled for the cops to shoot. In an instant Sonny was dead. I chose this as the climax because this was the point in the story where the action peaked. After Sonny was killed by the police, the action died down and the story ended. Conflict There wasn't really a resolution, as there was only one page after the climax, and that would be the resolution. Falling Action Symbols The exposition of Bullet Point starts out in a town called East Canton when Wyatt Lathem, a persistent and curious 16 year old boy who loves baseball, learns that his school is cutting all of the athletics out of the budget. Hoping to continue playing baseball, Wyatt leaves his family and moves to a nearby town that has not yet cut baseball out of their budget. He moves in with a friend that also moved for the same reason. Here he meets and starts dating an eighteen year old girl named Greer. Wyatt soon finds out that his dad is serving a life sentence for a murder in the prison nearby his school- and Greer's dad is in there too. One major conflict in this story is internal and it is person vs. self because Wyatt's curiosity got him into a problem way bigger than he had ever imagined, and it evetnually ends up getting his dad killed. Antoher major conflict in this story could be considered external and person vs. person in the way that Sonny killed two people and tried to kill Wyatt in the end of the book. By Peter Abrahams Rising Action Quarter 1 Independent Novel Assignment One symbol in this story is the 'unknown number' that Wyatt's dad always calls Wyatt from in the prison. This represents the mystery surrounding his father and what he has done to get a life sentence in prison. Another symbol in this story is the house on 32 Cain Street. This house represents a missing piece of Wyatt's family history since nobody knows what happened there on the night of the murder; all that Wyatt's family knows is that the