So, a guide for answering the narrative question in Part A:1:
1: First person, homodiegetic – unreliable
2: Dialogue? Indirect – direct
3: Linear narrative?
4: Flashback?
5: Cliff hanger?
6: Setting? Flat, Jean's house? Cafe?
Okay - here's my take on it...
Climax at start - the balloon accident/tragedy - loss of life - is all after an anticlimax?
2: Three cimaxes at the end
- assassination attempt
Jed shooting
Prof Reid and girlfriend
3: But do the events at the end offer a climax if they don't equate to the balloon tragedy
Is the not the whole novel an anticlimax to the incredible opening of suspense and tragedy
The rest is mere academic chess playing with Joe and Jed.
However...
If the novel is about thrills - then the balloon accident is the climax - but if it's about Joe's journey in his relationship with Clarissa, his learning that there's a bigger world out there than the world of Science; that not everything can be explained, that sometimes he has to think with his heart and emotions rather than logic and figures - then maybe we have a different kind of climax.
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