This is a summary of 'A Hunger Artist', it uses a plot triangle made up of five different stages: the exposition, the rising action, the climax or turning point, the falling action and the conclusion. (Beaty 71).
- Exposition: that part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters, establishes the situation at the beginning of that narrative, though additional exposition is often scattered throughout the story
- Rising Action: the second part of the plot structure, in which events complicate the situation that existed at the beginning of a work, intensifying the conflict or introducing new conflict
- Climax or Turning Point: the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing
- Falling Action: the point in which the complications of the rising action are untangled
- Conclusion: the point at which the situation the was destabalized at the beginning of the story becomes stable once more