The plot of the story

   The plot of the story runs as follows: The exposition: Mark Twain begins with a detailed description of the main character of the story. The author tells about the good little schoolboy Jacob Blivens, who likes to read books and does good affairs and helps everyone, obeying his parents.

    The development of the events: the boy has dreams to be put in a Sunday school book and to meet even one of the good boys in a real life. He follows the events in the book, does good things, but has mishaps.

   The climax is the movement when Jacob wants to help bad boys which start off pleasuring in a sailboat. ‘He was filled with consternation, because he knew from his reading that boys who went sailing on Sunday invariably got drowned’. Finally, he gets a cold and lay sick in a bed nine weeks.

    We also have an anticlimax; the boy doesn’t understand why the events in the book and in a real life are different. He wants to change the world to be good and kind, but it is useless.

    The type of speech employed by the author of the analysed story is narration. It is a story about the good little boy.