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Exposition: This is where Lightning McQueen is introduced and it tells who his competition is. It also begins to tell about his character as a rookie in racing who thinks he's better than everyone else.
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Exposition: Lightning shows his character as a rookie and shows off in front of the crowd.
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Exposition: this sets the story telling why Lightning has to travel to California for a tie breaking race.
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Exposition: this is the part where Lightning has to meet with his rusteys sponsor fans
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Exposition: this part reveals where lightning hits the road headed for California
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Rising action: this part is where mac wants to stop and rest at the tuck stop but Lightning won't let him so mac falls asleep on the way to California
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Rising action: this part is where lightning falls off of mac while he is sleeping because hot rodders mess with mac causing one of Lightnings action figures to fall on a panel and open the off loading ramp
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Rising action: in this part of the story Lightning gets chased down by the police and has to run away
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Rising action: this is where Lightning is thrown into an impound in radiator springs and he meets a tow truck named mater
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Rising action: this part is where Lightning goes to court and is sentenced to do community service by order of the law
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Climax:this part is the part where lightning starts to make friends with people in the town starting with Mater his to be best friend
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Climax:this part of the movie is the part that is the most suspenseful because lightning learns that doc is a race car
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Climax:this is where lightning becomes friends with sally the hotel manager at the cozy cone and takes a drive with her where he finds out about how radiator springs was before the interstate highway was built and how the highway was built just to save five minutes of driving and how it affected everyone in the town this is also the saddest part of the story
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Climax: this part is where is where lightning gets a radiator springs paint job and starts to get to know people by going and seeing what they have in shop from them but it is not what it sounds like he actually turns out becoming their friend by doing this lightnings upgrade also affects his personality that is him in the middle.
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Climax:this part is the part that shows the most how Lightning has changed because he had not only fixed the lights in the town but also fixed the town
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Falling action: this part is where lightning is finally found but he wants to stay in radiator springs because he has developed a relationship with mater, sally, and everyone else in the town
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Falling action: this part reveals the most craziest but heart warming event in the movie because when lightning left radiator springs he did not get to say bye to mater or any of his other friends how ever when he is racing in California the crew is not just his driver mac but doc Hudson for a crew chief, Fillmore for a gas attendee along with mater and sarge, and Guido as the tire exchange forklift the guy who exchanges McQueen's tires
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Falling action: this part is where lightning is bumped out of the way by chick hick he is in the grass and is spinning out of control when he remembers how doc Hudson drifted around the corner at radiator springs when McQueen first saw him drive in a race against himself and copied the move to get out of the dirt here is the beginning of the crash as you can see he is losing control at the back of his tires
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Falling action: this part is where lightning is hit by chick hick and spins out of control but comes back driving backwards because mater taught him sorry to use the same photo
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Falling action: this part is the most heartwarming yet noble event in the movie because lightning is although in a race to become the new face of Dinoco and get his first piston cup he stops right at the finish line and lets chick win he then reverses and helps stripe the king weathers to finish his last race
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Resolution: lightning goes back to radiator springs and sets up his racing head quarters
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Resolution: this part is where mater gets his wish that he asked lightning for which is to be able to fly in one of them fancy helicopters
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Resolution: lightning after seeing how radiator springs had more that met the eye than he first anticipated started to fall in love with sally
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Resolution: lightning puts radiator springs back on the map after it's long time out from the world
