The inciting incident in "Of Mice and Men" is when George and Lennie arrive at the ranch to start their new job. This event sets the stage for the development of the story and introduces the characters and conflicts that drive the plot forward.
Once the Exposition has come to an end, the Inciting Incident begins the forward movement of the plot.
The term "inciting incident" is a noun. It refers to the event in a story that sets the main plot into motion and creates conflict or tension.
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You need the inciting incident early in the story, so usually in the exposition or rising action.
I think the inciting incident would be when Jonas becomes the Reciever because that is where the story leads up to when he find out about "release" and runs away. -RS
it is when squeaky went to race
the shark bit her arm
To build tension
The pestilence is the inciting incident in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the inciting incident describes the event that triggers all subsequent happenings in the play. It therefore is the pestilence with which Oedipus, the priest of Zeus and the suppliants are concerned when the play opens. The characters spend the rest of the play finding the cause and carrying out the solution to bad harvests, declining populations and dying livestock. Without the inciting incident of the pestilence, there in fact will be no story.
It is the event that sets in motion the central conflict of the story.
in the end when Lennie has his mental breakdown she appears before him. in this incident she represents his conscience.
to introduce the central conflict early in the story