A_Small,_Good_Thing

A Small, Good Thing Fiction Essay In the story A Small Good Thing the first event the reader is exposed to is Ann Weis making a trip to the baker to order a birthday cake for her son Scotty’s eighth birthday. During this trip, the reader is introduced to the baker. Ann’s reactions and personal thoughts about the baker are important to the reader later on in the story. Within the first two paragraphs the reader is exposed to the protagonist, antagonist, and the setting. The complicating incident is quick to come in the fourth paragraph when the birthday boy stepped off the curb at an intersection and was hit by a car (Kennedy and Gioia, 459). Scotty may have been able to stumble home after being knocked into the gutter by the car, but soon he collapses at home and is rushed to the hospital. The complicating incident is further developed when the reader learns that who ever hit Scotty with their car, drove off when the child was seen standing immediately after the accident. When Ann calls her husband and tells him about Scotty’s accident, the reader is being introduced to the rising action of the reader, story, ann, character, baker, about, scotty’s, home, scotty, phone, howard, hospital, first, calls, son, birthday, through, narrator, knows, know, introduced, climax, car, being, ann’s, after, way, view, trip, tells, technical, soon, point, order, mother