1. By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of These Days
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. Exposition
The story starts out with Aurelio Escovar arriving at his office with his eleven year old son.
It is Monday and warm and rainless.
Aurelio is a dentist, without a degree.
While Aurelio is polishing some false teeth, his son says that the town mayor has come to see him.

3. Narrative Hook
The eleven year old boy shouts to his dad, “ The Mayor wants to know if you’ll pull his tooth.”
Aurelio tells the boy to say he is not here but the Mayor demands his tooth being pulled.
Aurelio still turned him down but then the Mayor threatened to shoot him if he did not.

4. Rising Action
Aurelio finally agrees to pull his tooth after the threat.
The Mayor has an effected tooth that must be treated without anesthesia.
There is a great deal of discomfort in this scene noting that the two gentlemen do not like each other that much.
The men continue to talk uncomfortably.

5. Climax
“The Mayor seized the arms of the chair, braced his feet with all his strength, and felt an icy void in his kidney, but did not make a sound.”
With a big yank the lower wisdom tooth is finally crushed out of the Mayor.

6. Falling Action
After he yanked the tooth out Aurelio told the Mayor to dry his tears and went to wash his hands.
Aurelio told the Mayor to go to bed and gargle with salt water to feel better.

7. Resolution
“The mayor stood up, said goodbye with a casual military salute, and walked toward the door, stretching his legs, without buttoning up his tunic.”
“Send the bill,” he said.
“To you or the town?”
The Mayor didn’t look at him. He closed the door and said through the screen: “It’s the same damn thing.”
This shows the arrogance of the Mayor but still from the kindness of his heart Aurelio still helped him

8. Conflict The conflict of the story is Man VS Man
It is between Aurelio, the dentist, and the Mayor of the town

9. Characters Aurelio Escovar, the dentist without a degree
The eleven year old boy, son of Aurelio, full of excitement.
The Mayor, arrogant and disrespectful Has one side of his faced shaved, one side is swollen.