PLOT The Christmas Tree and A Wedding

 

PLOT

 

EXPOSITION The narrator begins by mentioning to the reader that he had just been to a wedding but recalls a Christmas party that he had found more interesting. The party was given with the pretext of being a children’s party, but its real purpose was for the wealthy host’s host’s family to talk business with rich members of the community. The wealthiest guest was Julian Mastakovich, a rotund landowner.

 

Without anyone to talk to, the narrator fell to simply observing the guests. The narrator takes particular interest takes interest in tthe he children. They were given given gifts in accordance with their social s ocial standing. The eleven-year-old daughter of a wealthy government contractor received an expensive doll, while the poorest child, the son of the family governess, receiv received ed only a small book.

 

RISING ACTION After being bullied by the other richer boys, the poor boy retrea retreats ts to another room where he and the rich daughter play happily with the doll. Julian Matsakovich Matsakovich also retreats retreats from the rest of the crowd to observes the girl, he calculates what dof owry (withand interest) would be at the her agedowry six teen, sixteen, he comes up with the astounding sum of 500,000 rubles

 

CLIMAX Mastakovich approaces the girl and kisses her Mastakovich on the head. The girl recoils from his gesture, gesture, and she s he looks to her playmate for protection. protection. Mastakovich tries to scare the poor boy away while trying to get a promise of love from the young and eventually a scene sthe cene where girl, he chases the poor he boycauses around party, whipping at him with his handkerchief.

 

RESOLUTION The wedding that the narrator came across five yearss later was indeed the wedding between year Julian Mastakovich Mastakovich and the rich girl, now sixteen.