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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Plot Diagram
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Plot Diagram
Rising Actions
Climax
- Mrs. Frisby learns about the Plan, how the Rats want to move so they aren't stealing so much anymore.
- Mrs. Frisby has to put sleeping powder in the cats' food bowl for the moving to work, but this comes with danger, and she gets trapped, but later escapes.
- In that time, she hears the Fitzgibbons talking about exterminating the Rats.
- Mrs. Frisby's neighbor, the shrew, thinks that the Rats are stealing her house and brings major complications on the issue of time before the sleeping powder or before any humans notice.
After successfully escaping the Fitzgibbons' house and dealing with the Shrew, Mrs. Frisby's house is finally moved, and that comes with much thanks from Mrs. Frisby and her children to the Rats.
Book Jacket Description
Rising Actions
Inciting Incident
The inciting incident of this story is when Mrs. Frisby finds out from Mr. Ages, a wise mouse in the medical field, that Timothy has to stay in bed for three weeks. It continues for longer than usual so it can be roped in with the fact that Mr. Fitzgibbon is plowing in five days.
- Jeremy the Crow takes her to see the Owl for advice.
- Under recommendation from him, she goes to see the Rats of Nimh, who work on devising a plan to help her.
- The Rats tell her the reason why they are so smart, because they escaped from a lab called Nimh.
- Mrs. Frisby finds out that her now deceased husband was one of the only two mice to escape Nimh, with Mr. Ages being the other.
(Disclaimer: This is the EXACT summary from the back of the book)
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
Exposition
Falling Actions and Resolution
The first introduced main characters of this story are Mrs. Frisby and her four children, Timothy, Teresa, Martin, and Cynthia. They live in the garden on Mr. Fitzgibbon's farm, and the main conflict is trying to avoid moving day, when they have to leave because of Mr. Fitzgibbon plowing, The issue is that Timothy's pneumonia will kill him if he lives in the wet and cold conditions of the summer house just when spring was beginning. This is a Character vs. Character conflict, because if Mr. Fitzgibbon didn't have to plow, than there would be no danger at all of Timothy dying and they wouldn't have to move right away.
After Mrs. Frisby warned the Rats, they moved out of Mr. Fitzgibbon's garden and went to the new home that they were planning in the forest, without stealing anything else. After three weeks, Mrs. Frisby and her children move to the summer home.