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Elephant - Coggle Diagram
Elephant
Useful Quotes
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"Naturally, the investment thing hadn't worked out"
Naturally suggests that the narrator was not surprised to hear the Billy's investment hadn't come through
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Plot
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Rising Action
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Reader learns that he also loans money to his daughter, son ex-wife and that he feels worried about being to pay everyone
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Climax
Dream about his alcoholism, and dream about being on his fathers shoulders
Falling Action
Realizes his life is not as bad as it could be. Starts feeling a sense of gratitude that he still has a family
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Characters
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Brother
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Proud/stubborn
Constantly emphasises that he can pay his brother back, even though he knows he can't
Gives lots of details about his bad experiences to incite pity in his brother (hence none of their conversations are paraphrased)
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Son
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Bribes his dad into sending him more money by threatening to turn into a drug dealer or rob a bank or commit suicide
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Daughter
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Coincidence that her first day of work she gets robbed and her husband and children are nowhere to be seen
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