A Lion asleep in his lair was waked up by a Mouse running over his face. Losing his temper he seized it with his paw and was abo
ut to kill it. The Mouse, terrified, piteously entreated him to spare its life. "Please let me go," it cried, "and one day I will repay you for your kindness." The idea of so insignificant a creature ever being able to do anything for him amused the Lion so much that he laughed aloud, and good-humoredly let it go. But the Mouse's chance came, after all. One day the Lion got entangled in a net, which had been spread for game by some hunters, and the Mouse heard and recognized his roars of anger and ran to the spot. Without more ado it set to work to gnaw the ropes with its teeth, and succeeded before long in setting the Lion free. "There!" said the Mouse, "you laughed at me when I promised I would repay you: but now you see, even a Mouse can help a Lion." Which element of plot is bolded in the fable above? rising action resolution climax exposition
The rising plot is that the lion didn't think the mouse could help him but the lion was shock to know that something so smell can help something so big.
America unites together only in situations when there is a greater evil that we (America) are fighting/ facing, but when the evil is not there to face or fight against, we turn on each other.
