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Rose Exposition
Rose, the main deaf girl, is escaping from her father. -
Rose Rising Action
Rose goes to see a movie of her favorite actress. She keeps a scrapbook of Lilian Mayhew. Also she obsesses about her. -
Rose Rising Action
Rose runs away to New York because she wants to find her mother, and get away from her father. -
Rose Rising Action
Rose finds her mother who is Lilian Mayhew. Her mother gets mad at her, and tells her to go home because she is working, but Rose does not. -
Rose Rising Action
Rose loves the American Museum of Natural History. So, she goes there. Then her older brother, who works at the musuem, Walter finds her, and takes care of her. -
Ben Exposition
Ben, the main deaf boy, wakes up having the reoccurring wolf dream. -
Ben Rising Action
Ben goes to his old house to search for things that he left behind when he moved because his mother died. Then, he thinks he sees his mother alive.............. -
Ben Rising Actioin
Ben becomes deaf in both ears, and gets sent to a hospital. -
Ben Rising Action
Ben runs away from the hospital, and goes to New York. First, he goes to search for his father that he never knew about, but cannot find him. Then, he goes to the American Museum of Natural History. There he meets a boy who becomes his best friend. At the museum there is a diorama that is the place where Ben is from, which is Gunflint Lake. There is this old woman at the museum that always comes everyday. -
Ben and Rose falling action
Rose takes Ben to the place that Rose built a model city of New York with ittle objects from her son inside. Rose loved buildings. Rose and Ben just opened up the treasures inside the bui;dings. Ben put in his own, too. -
Rose and Ben falling action
Rose takes Ben to the subway and to the Queens Mueseum of Art to show him something from his past. -
Rose and Ben resolutioin
Ben and Rose sit on the roof together watching the blackout and looking at the stars together now reunited as a family. -
Ben and Rose Climax
Ben goes searching for his father for the last time, and goes to the book shop that his father had worked at. At the store he meets that old woman who actually is someone he is related to. He then finds out his life story. -
Direct Characterization
One direct characterization about Rose that depicts her apperance is, "An old woman with long white hair walked up to the diorama and stood right next to the boys."(Selznick 367) Another of Ben's best friend Jamie that depicts his apperance is,"The boy had long, curly, black hair and wore a striped t-shirt." (Selznick 321) -
Indirect Charaacterization
One indirect characterization of Ben was he is determined to find his father, "Feeling desperate, he said, 'Do you know where he lives know?'" (Selznick 309) Another indirect characterization of Ben was he was clueless when he counted his money on the street. "As he stood there couting the bills, a hand darted out from behind him." (Selznick 265)
