Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.KENNETHWow. For a minute there, I thought you weren’t going to show up.XAVIERI’m here.KENNETHIt’s just weird how I can’t see you until you sort of, I don’t know, appear.XAVIERYou’re not supposed to see me.KENNETHI know, I know. You’re Tree Man, spirit of the forest. Able to disappear into the very trees themselves. More elusive than the shyest garden creatures. Master of the art of—
Kenneth’s dialogue gives the audience information about Xavier: he is the “Tree Man,” a forest spirit who can disappear into trees. This kind of background information is exposition. It is not the climax, falling action, or resolution, which describe stages in the plot.
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