Nemo Plot Strucuture

• The story comes to a reasonable ending.

What part of the plot is this?

• Resolution

• Plot

• Conflict

• Exposition

All loose ends of the plot are tied up.  The conflict(s) and climax are taken care of.

What part of the plot is this?

• Climax

• Rising action

• Falling action

• exposition

• Nemo is a regular kid, annoyed by his father’s worrying.

• Marlin’s cautious nature is shown when he goes in and out of the home indefinitely, checking for danger. What part of the plot is this?

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

• Marlin finally tells his whole joke.

• Marlin is no longer overprotective of his son.

• Nemo is confident and happy.

What part of the plot is this?

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

• exposition

Nemo tries to save Dori when she is caught in the fishing net.  He tells the fish to swim down.  Marlin learns to trust his son.

What part of the plot is this?

• falling action

• rising action

• exposition

• climax

In Finding Nemo, the conflict truly begins when Nemo is taken by the divers. This is known as the inciting incident. It is the beginning of the rising action.

What part of the plot is this?

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

The search for Nemo intersects with Nemo’s own adventures in the dentist’s office. Nemo escapes, with some help from Gill, but Marlin thinks Nemo is dead.

What part of the plot is this?

• exposition

• climax

• resolution

• falling action

What is in the middle of a story?

• exposition

• plot

• climax

• rising action