Now the threat to life and limb that the family has feared comes about, albeit not in the way they feared. When he "screamed and struggled deeper into its tangle," the high point of tension in the story is reached. The second approach of identifying a climax leads readers to the final paragraph where the little boy gets caught up in the razor-bladed coils. Yet this success in achieving their security sets up the resolution of their conflict-they have kept outsiders away but lose their son as a result. This coil will never rust even the cat doesn't try to get through anymore. Now, the statement "You're wrong" appears, signalling a change. Until this point, the statement "You're right" often precedes the family's next effort to improve their security. This is the decision that finally resolves their fears so they can stop worrying about invaders. In "Once Upon a Time," the climax according to the first approach occurs in the penultimate paragraph when the family installs the "razor-bladed coils" atop the walls around their house. Second, we can think of it as the high point of the story's action where the reader experiences the most tension, after which the tension subsides as the story's action falls. First, we can think of it as the turning point where the main character makes a decision and/ or takes an action that sets up the resolution of the conflict, for good or for ill. When we think about the climax of a story, we can think of it in two different ways. The message Gordimer sends is clear: we must fight to make society better, not try to hide away from social problems. In the end, the razor wire atop the high wall cannot keep the family safe: trying to live in a protected fantasyland becomes their undoing.
This is a horrible, ironic, and dramatic ending to a story about people obsessed with feeling safe by building walls to keep the dangerous "others" out of their lives.
he dragged a ladder to the wall, the shining coiled tunnel was just wide enough for his little body to creep in, and with the first fixing of its razor-teeth in his knees and hands and head he screamed and struggled deeper into its tangle. The climax of "Once Upon a Time" comes when the little boy, brought up on fairy stories that have no relationship to reality and imagining himself a prince fighting his way through thorns to save Sleeping Beauty, gets caught in the razor wire that has been strung up around the house to keep the family safe. The climax of a story is its highest point of tension or action.
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