Way Past Cool | Literary Qualities

In form and structure, Way Past Cool is a fairly traditional novel. It has a classic opening, designed to draw readers into the plot with exciting, suspenseful action, then a period during which characters and situations are described, with a gradual rise in action to a climax in which all the principal characters are drawn together in one place where a confrontation resolves the conflicts that have been the engine of the plot. Following the shootout is an anti-climax in which details of the shootout emerge. Thus, in the structure of its plot, Way Past Cool is in the great...

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