In the book, The Earth my Butt and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler chose the quote, “I thought at last it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its impressions and its anger and its laughter, and cast it into the hedge.” from Virginia Woolf’s, A Room of One’s Own in order to describe Virginia’s struggles throughout the book. Virginia is born into what she thinks would be the perfect family, if it weren’t for her. Being an overweight and odd young girl, Virginia struggles to please her parents and live up to their high expectations of a slim and intelligent young women. Throughout the book she begins to realize what she really wants and starts to do things for herself, and not to please others. This…show more content… The exposition introduces background information about events, settings, and characters. In The Earth my Butt and Other Big Round Things the exposition introduces us to Virginia and her family, where they live, and tells us about how bad her life is. The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition of the story and builds up to the climax. In the rising action of the book Virginia's life remains a steady climb of unfortunate events. She’s ignored by her brother, taken to a doctor about her weight, and embarrassed in front of her crush. The climax is the most intense, exciting, or important point of a story. The climax in the book is when Byron, Virginia's brother, is suspended from college for raping his date. A quote from the climax is when Virginia says, “I’m probably not the only person who thinks you’re an asshole for date-raping someone” (Mackler 197). The falling action includes the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end. In the book’s falling action Virginia turns her life around. She rebels and begins to find herself. The resolution is the part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. In resolution of The Earth my Butt and Other Big Round Things Virginia and her dad learn to communicate better, and even her mom admits she's proud of her. A quote from the resolution is when Virginia tells her dad, “I’d rather you don’t talk about my body. It’s just not yours to discuss” (Mackler 235). She finds her purpose in writing a blog with her classmates and her life has finally turned around. The plot keeps the story moving smoothly and the audience
