Today I was supposed to write out the climax and crisis of the novel, although I prefer calling them climax and resolution, because it seems clearer to me. Anyway, I struggled with this, and I'm not entirely sure if I have it right. The resolution seems a bit too easy right now, unless I write it exceptionally well. Although it might not be the resolution that the readers are expecting, since it apepars that the dragon is hell bent on destroying the earth up to this point of the book. But they will be expecting the resolution to somehow solve his own problems with his crisis of identity. And perhaps it does so a bit too neatly here.
Climax and Crisis
Climax: The climax of the book is when the character finally comes face to face with the dragon. He learns that the dragon doesn't plan on destroying the world, but is building a giant underground lair in which it plans on moving a section of society. It has moved hundred of children down there, children which it can shape into its own beliefs. He has to choose to save these children even though they are in no real danger. He has to save them from the fact that they have no real choice in the matter.
Resolution: He wants the children to be freed, but he doesn't have the power to save the children with his magic, which is weak. Instead he must convince the dragon that there is a better solution. And that better solution is to bring people down here who want to be here. Some of these people he has met already. People who believe in dragons and want to believe in magic. And he has to believe that he has the power to do this, that he has value as a human being, that he can still be useful. And he beleives that the prjoect is useful, because the dragon is right, it is only a matter of time.
Side Resolution: Now he has a job, won't need money, and has the self confidence to say goodbye to his ex-girlfriend.
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