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Exposition
The story set's the scene and tells up what the house is about,
"Two roomed house, built of round timber, slabs, and stringy bark, and floored with split slabs. Bush all around
From Story -
The Raising Action
The Drover's Wife brings the children in to the house to protect them but they know that wont hold the snake out for long but the dog lays down on the floor sniffing the wall, showing the Drover's Wife -
The Raising Action
Now tht the kids are asleep, the Drover's Wife is now sitting in her chair with a candle waiting for the snake to show herself, but she thinks back to what happend on the past when the Drover left for work -
Flashback 1
she thinks about how she fought a bush fire and bed out the flames witha green bourugh, getting burnt and blackened skin, she puts out the fire and saves the day and her farm and house -
Flashback 2
She now has a flashback to when the Drover was gone how many men would come into her house to try and cheer her up, but to all of them she gets rid of them -
Flashback 3
She has another flashback where every sunday she will dress up her kids and go for a walk, even though she is in the middle of no-where, she still does it to spend more time with her kids -
Falling Action/End
Now that the snake is dead, everyone sits around the fire nd little tommy says "I will never become a drover, shoot me if I do" hearing this makes the Drover's Wife happy and she hugs her kids and roast marshmellows and have a lovely moment -
Conflict
The Drover and left for work, the Drover's Wife and her kids are left alone, then one of the 4 kids goes up to her and screams "Snake, Mother there's a snake." -
Climax
It is near morning, the dog starts to stand up awakened about what follows in the darkness, the Drover's Wife neals down and gets her hand on a stick, the snake starts to come out, the Drover's Wife throws the stick at the snake, but misses, Alligator comes and gets the snake and bites down snapping its neck in half