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.
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.