Answer:
Aunt Harriet did not kill herself or the baby, though it does seem like it at first. If you read the pages carefully, Joseph Strorm kills her actually. In the pages after Harriet leaves, David's mom says she will pray for gods forgiveness for Harriet, but J.strorm talks about the heresies of women, how they can get away with it but he says how aunt Harriet won't get away with it this time. The page after, David says how they found aunt Harriet's body in a river, his dad mentioned her in his prayers but never again. This implies murder.
Answer:
This excerpt can be found in the rising action part of the plot.
Explanation:
The moment of rising action in a story is the sequence of several events or incidents that create suspense and the increasing interest in the reader for knowing that is going to happen at the end, it is the prior step to the climax which is the highest point of all the events presented in rising action and follow the decisions of the characters.
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