What is the initiating event in a book?

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Elvis Maddox

14 January, 18:32

What is the initiating event in a book?

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Angela Kidd · Answer 1

Any action or idea that sets the rising action into motion is an initiating event ... An 'Initiating Event' is an event that causes something else to occur. Basically how the conflict first begins

Teresa Fields · Answer 2

An initiating event is a literary term which refers to the first stimuli in a novel or story that triggers the conflict in the plot of a story line.