Mr. Smith Goes To Washington- Narrative Plot Structure

1. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington- Narrative Plot Structure Kaden Wolfe

2. Introduction • Sam Foley (first Senator) died, and they needed to find a new one. • The boys persuaded their father (Taylor), to elect Jefferson Smith. • Once he was elected, he proposed a bill for a boys camp on Willet Creek.

3. Rising Action • In misleading newspapers, the press portrays Senator Smith as a stooge. • Paine and Taylor find out, lie, and accuse him of buying the space purposely to get his own money out of it, and to use the boys’ money that had been sent to him through letters the boys wrote to him. • Smith said nothing in his defense during the hearings involved with the graft. • They forged the signature and bribed people to say that Smith did it purposely. • Newspapers go out saying that Smith should be locked up for what is said that he has done. • Saunders told him what had happened and she told him that he should fight, not just for himself, but for the boys who look up to him.

4. Climax • Smith listens to Saunders and calls for a filibuster to prove that he did not buy the land and was not using the boys. • Paine lied and went along with Taylor and tried to get Smith arrested.

5. Falling Action • Paine delivers baskets of telegrams from the people from his and Smith’s state. They demanded that Senator Smith gave up the fight and leave the Senate. • Jefferson Smith fainted on the floor after everything had happened. • Clarissa had sent him books and notes during the filibuster, which helped him a lot through out the filibuster. • The filibuster went along for almost 24 hours when finally Paine ran back into the room and yelled “Expel me! . . . Every word that boy said is true. . . . Every word of it is true!”

6. Conclusion • New newspapers went out and explained that Smith had not done anything wrong and that he did not sign for or buy any land of Willet Creek.