How does the rising action in a flash fiction story differ from the rising action in a traditional short story or a novel? The rising action is left out completely.

The rising action happens more gradually.

The rising action lasts much longer.

The rising action contains fewer events.

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Why are danforth, hathorne, and the other authorities so resistant to believing the claim that abigail and the other girls are lying?