"They can't do this!" shouted Coretta. Some big company from out of town could not just show up and take away her mother's store-could they?
"Don't get so angry," said Mrs. Carter. "I'm afraid they can do this, if I don't come up with the money to match their offer."
"Well, we're going to get that money. Even if I have to give you all my earnings!" Coretta was willing to part with all the money from her summer job. But when she got to work the next day, she got an even worse surprise. Her boss had decided that three writing tutors were two too many.
"Sorry Coretta, but I can only afford to keep one of you. And you're only in high school-Lucia is in college."
"Great," Corretta said, "Now mom and I are both broke!"
All around them, traffic had come to a standstill. Drivers were honking, but nobody budged.
"Can't you take another route or something?" Krista asked. "The concert starts in 20 minutes. We paid a lot for these tickets, and I don't want to miss the beginning!"
"I can't even move 10 feet, Krista, much less get onto another road" said Lawrence. "Besides, this is the most direct route."
The conflict introduced in the exposition of this story involves—
Which sentence in the story signals the end of the exposition and the beginning of the rising action?
In the resolution of a story, the character's problems are
Which detail could be part of a story's climax?
What might the writer do to add rising action to this story?