Angela - Plot Summary

Exposition: Scene starts with a pair of boys (brothers) who live a poor life in a small city somewhere with their mother and father. Their family are going through bad times to the point where they end up bankrupt and the older brother has to quit school and go look for jobs. The older brother will be several years or so older than his younger brother. The story will start off with something terrible happening with their father running off to hide from the money collectors.

Inciting Incident: After realizing that people are probably going to go after his family, the brothers' dad decides to pack up in the middle of the night to run away to another country. Their mother eventually marries a rich man and leaves the brothers all by themselves. The brothers still have to deal with their constant money problems such as the collectors, finding a place to live, and food shortages.

Rising Action: One day, while the older brother was at work trying to help his younger brother finish school (and eventually college), a man comes to kidnap the smaller brother. So the older brother has to go search for him all around the city, with very few leads and lots of lies from the helpers of the man.

The older brother finds his little brother in the hands of the kidnapper. In order to save his brother, the older brother has to listen to whatever the kidnapper wants. His first assignment is to kill a man or else they'll murder his younger brother.

Climax: A long description about how the older brother struggles between killing the man and running away to save himself. Eventually he chooses and has to deal with the mental trauma he has to deal with in the end.

Falling Action: Eventually, the boy gets used to his job working under the kidnapper. He still does everything he can to save his little brother from getting involved with the situation at hand. He slowly tries to save up as much money as he can to send his brother away from the city.

Dénouement: After a year and few months of mental trauma, hardships, and keeping his little brother pure, the older brother manages to make enough money for a train ride out of the old city. He gives the money to his brother and asks him to leave and never return. The brothers share a brief farewell before the younger brother runs away before anyone could find him again. Although there is nothing stopping him from running away as well, the older brother continues to work for the kidnapper except with relief that he could at least protect his brother (which would be described in detail). He works a few months before dying from an assignment he was sent on.