As Spencer created the conflict when he went to people he didn’t know well. The other characters are introduced as players of a basketball team with Spencer. The setting of the orientation is a modern-day teenage party where Spencer is introduced as a shy character with not so much self-confidence.
” The Spillway follows a simple structure such as orientation, complication, climax and resolution.
I have been trying all night…all bloody night…to pretend it didn’t happen. “He… he…fell, and God help me, I didn’t know what to do. ” Short sentences were attached long pauses, was used to build emotional tension. “It looks as if the young lad might have been walking across the spillway hen he fell. Formal language tone had began used when the policemen arrived. terms and purchases such as: cool, goin’ down, jerk and out of it to reveal the youth of the characters. Style and structure The language used in the spillway is relaxed and recent, for the teenage characters. Themes and ideas The shown in the short story are peer-group pressure and consequence of lying and death. Spencer is the one who drives the story as he narrated it in first person and also is a part of the action plot. Character Movement The Spillway has two main characters Spencer and Paul and other minor characters such as Penny and the police which are a part of the action. ” The action starts by the conflict involving the need for peer-group acceptance like Spencer and the need not to accept somebody who tries too hard such as penny and friends. ” and “we were up there fishing, and I dared him to walk the wall. ” …late this afternoon we identified a body found in mealla creek…. Not surprisingly, as it was not only forbidden by law, but highly dangerous. More clues are given right through the story about other settings about the spillway such as: “there has been an open dare to walk across the dam’s spillway for as long as I could remember. The party throbbed on, like a living thing with an existence and momentum all its own” (Kirkwood M,).
“The setting is rapidly planned which allows the action of the story to begin. Plot Development The spillway is set at party at Dana’s house but the spillway is a dangerous narrow path across a waterway and very important part to develop the story line.
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