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"Button, Button" By Richard Matheson
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Exposition
Characters are Norma and Arthur Lewis. Norma was given the button and was told that she would receive a call at eight p.m. that night.
Rising action
Norma debates whether to press the button and receive $50,000.00 and someone will have to die in return. Norma faces character vs. self
Characters
Climax
When Norma is home alone and presses the button to receive $50,000.00
PLOT
"Button, Button" By Richard Matheson
Norma
Arthur
Arthur is understanding, intelligent,
modest, and appreciative. he is appreciative and understanding because he is thinking of the outcome to other people if his wife presses the button.
Resolution
Now that Arthur is dead Norma receives her $50,000.00 for his life insurance.
Norma is a very selfish, wanting, and very ungrateful. She is very wanting because she was saying how she wanted a second house on a island.
Falling Action
Norma gets a phone call stating that her husband is dead.
Theme
Conflict
Norma faces character vs. self. she faces character vs. self by deciding whether or not to press the button and receive $50,00.00. she faces character vs character by fighting with Arthur on deciding if she should press the button.
The theme of the story is you can understand and know how someone is, but you cannot understand how an individual can think and feel.
Irony
Foreshadowing
The foreshadowing is when norma is in her bed thinking about how much $50,000.0 is, she really wants the money
The irony in this story is that Arthur ends up dying because his wife never truly new him.
Setting
The setting of this story is in a ghetto apartment in the city.
The End :)