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I. Describe the story's exposition. During the exposition you learn that it is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal, and he who touches the metal must be a priest of the son of the priest. You also learn that John is the son of a pr ....

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.... and all the men in the Place of the Gods were just normal people. He realizes they are more advanced humans, but they were just like he was. V. What events make up the story's falling action? The falling action is when John goes back to town to tell his father what he saw. He then went to his father to be praised an purified. His father told him that "You went away a boy. You come back a man and a priest." He started to go to the Dead Places to retrieve books and magic tools. VI. Describe the story's resolution. The resolution is all summed up in two sentences. "They were men who were here before us. We must build again." They w ....