alright so the three-act structure has been handed down from the theatre of ancient greece while the eight-point arc is given to us by author Nigel Watts both of these structures will be messing with your readers reactions and emotions in some way well it actually many different ways I will be going through the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins so if you haven't read the books and plan to be surprised by the narrative you should not continue watching this video the stasis is what establishes setting and kind of tells us the current situation in The Hunger Games we have a collapsed America we are in district 12 it's the day of the reaping and Katniss is a victim of the war then we have the trigger and the trigger is an event that kick starts a transition of new ideas and events basically younger sister Prim is chosen as the female tribute and Katniss takes her place so the trigger leads us to the quest and this journey reveals many surprises which is the fourth critical point that tests our character strengths and weaknesses that either help or hinder there the if they accomplish their goal or not she deals with training she deals with PETA's crush she flees the cornucopia then she blows up the cornucopia and she gains sponsors somewhere along the way your main character is going to have to make a critical choice and this has to be a very authentic choice so it can't happen by happenstance and what it does is it reveals the potential for your character to succeed or fail so when rue is killed Katniss compares her to a wild animal and this is really important because Katniss has always been a victim to the or into the Capitol not only that but if you're going to survive the Hunger Games you can't treat people humanely you have to act like an animal and rely on instinct and kill when you are being threatened you contrast that with Katniss's next decision to decorate Rouge body with wild flowers so she is acting very humanely in a very animalistic setting and what's what's beautiful is then Katniss decides that she is going to be different and she is going to conquer the Capitol our critical choice then leads us to the climax which is the highest peak of tension she witnesses the morbid transformations in the mutations eyes man so then after grad then she witnesses kaitos very very good chest death so the reversal is when a character who has fulfilled certain roles in their past reverse them if you're going to leave out any critical point in a novel don't leave out the reversal make sure to do a reversal because it is so cool so here she is after all of that and she has these berries and she decides to commit suicide and this is the final act that changes her from a victim to a hero there's nothing like she isn't deciding to be a hero she is a hero in doing this act as we come to a resolution the tension starts to wind down and we return to a state of consistency both Katniss and Pan Am which is the new America basically have to deal with the repercussions of her critical choice and her reversal and then we move on to the next books but that you know that's it that's the whole shebang