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Lt. Scott

A military lieutenant.

minor

Also known as Scott

First appearance: the gun

Lt. Scott's tie to Major Hendricks is one of the pressures that moves Short Fiction—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

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With Major Hendricks (professional): Lt. Scott reports to Major Hendricks as a junior officer, maintaining a formal military hierarchy. With Major Hendricks (professional): Lt. Scott reports to Major Hendricks as a…

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Relationship types

  • Professional
  • Other

Character groups

  • Military soldiers
  • Cloned or artificial humans
  • Aliens and psychological experiments
  • Small town and sentient spaceship

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Closing

This scene is the dramatic climax because it crystallizes the emotional chasm between Doris and Larry: Doris’s…

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