Chapter 1 Rising Action Analysis

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Exposition
Kendrick and his wife Patricia just bought a beautiful historic house from the 1950s in the suburbs just outside of new york and this house costed a pretty penny. This house is just perfect for them having 4 bedrooms 2 baths with a huge backyard and big driveway where all their guests can park and stay.
Conflict
Kendrick is faced with killing his wife. Why you ask, well there is a ghost who is a new york native by the name of jimmy hoffa who was murdered by his rival mafia and has thirst for revenge .Jimmy Hoffa was historic leader in new york's most well known mafia. The last house he stayed in was the new house of Kendrick and Patricia.
Rising Action As Mr Hoffa starts to antagonize Kendrick, kendrick becomes furious with himself because he doesn't know where the voices are coming from. As jimmy keeps getting in Kendrick's head threatening kendrick's life he becomes scared and starts to second guess everything from his insanity to his life decisions and the suspense of what is going on in Kendrick's head is unreal.
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Kendrick goes and gets his pistol and points the gun at his wife's head and says “i have to i have to i'm sorry” As patricia turns around she immediately panics and says “what what do you have to do”(as she begins to cry). The ghost says i have to he says if i don't he will kill me. As they stand there staring into their eyes crying the ghost is right behind him like the devil on his shoulder telling him “do it, do it, DO IT NOW” Kendrick turns around and shoots the ghost 2 times and the ghost of jimmy hoffa turns back to a real human and in a puddle of blood around the mysterious ghost that threatened Kendrick's life as well his wife's. As patricia stands there confused Kendrick tells her what happened and what the horrible Mr. Hoffa was going to

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