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Ordeal By Cheque

By: Crystal Nase

10th Period English

Climax

Inciting Incident

Denouement

Characters:

Settings:

  • The Exeter Mansion
  • Hollywood Hospital
  • Hawaii Steamship
  • Tony's Wine Cellar
  • Ambassador Hotel
  • Lawrence Exeter Sr.
  • Lawrence Exeter Jr.
  • Dr. David M McCoy
  • Miss Daisy Windsor
  • Miss Flossie Wentworth
  • Tony Spagoni
  • Marie Whaton Exeter
  • Peter Ventizzi
  • Lawrence Senior finishes writing his last three checks.
  • He wonders how it turned out like this.
  • He ponders that it may have been his fault but decides that the damage is done.
  • Lawrence Jr. starts to act out at school and his father sends him to a military academy.
  • He is also kicked out of he military academy and his father has no choice but to send him to Stanford University.
  • His father is tired of his trouble and decides to get him to move out and stop using his money.
  • Once Tony finds out that Lawrence Jr. hired Peter Ventizzi to murder him, he decided that Lawrence should pay his debt with his life.
  • Tony makes Daisy show him where Lawrence Jr. is hiding out.
  • When Tony is lead right to him, he shoots Lawrence six times in the head, ending his life.

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Falling Action

Rising Action

Exposition

  • Lawrence Exeter's son is born and he names him after himself.
  • He spoils his son, turning him into a rotten and selfish boy.
  • Lawrence enrolls him into the Palisades School for Boys.
  • After hearing about what has happened to his son, Lawrence Sr. is ashamed of him after trusting him.
  • Lawrence Sr. no longer has a lot of money and can only afford to pay the hospital, doctor, and mortuary.
  • He was so ashamed of Lawrence Jr. that he didn't even give him a proper funeral.
  • Daisy Windsor is payed to spend time with LJ.
  • His father thinks that the plan is working but it backfires.
  • LJ uses even more money after Daisy gets him hooked on gambling and heroin.
  • LJ uses up all of his father's money from losing so much.
  • He gambles against Tony Spagoni but loses and owes him money.
  • LJ tries to murder him but the plan fails and Tony goes after him.
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