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Rising Action Of High School By Sarge Parker

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Exposition: The exposition of the story starts when Dre Parker and his mother Sherry flew to Beijing from West Detroit to start a new life. So he has a crush on a violinist her name is Mei Ying she always responds to his attention. Cheng is a kung fu student and then Dre notices that his crush's family is related to Cheng's family. Dre gets harassed and humiliated and beaten up by Cheng and his friend around the school. Mr. Han reveals Dre as a kung fu master so that he can defend himself among Cheng and his friends who he really gets annoyed from all the time around the school every day. Rising action: The first level of suspense is introduced after Han mends Dre's injuries involves using fire cupping. Then Dre and Han go to Cheng's

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