In Let the Circle Be Unbroken, things
worsen for the Logans when the county agent says that the cotton are over quota and so
some of them will have to be cut down. Stacey and friend named Moe run away from home to
get jobs cutting sugar cane to help raise money. Mama Logan is distraught not knowing
how to find the boys. Lee Annie is told that she has failed the voter registration
test.
Cassie Logan doesn't understand how in the midst of
all the trouble the adults can just go on with daily chores and act like nothing is
wrong and everything is all right. Mama tells her the painful truth that the needs of
life go on no matter what happens. The climax occurs on New Year's Day the Logans
receive word that Stacey and Moe have been found. Because of Mr. Jamison's help, Stacey
is reunited with his family. The resolution occurs afterward when Cassie remembers
Mama's prediction that She and Stacey would be reunited one
day.
Climaxes are often associated with emotional action
and great events, but, as in Let the Circle Be Unbroken, a climax
can be a calm event, a revelation, or a moment of enlightenment. By definition, the
climax is the moment at which the fate of the resolution is decided. For example, had
they received news on New Year's Day that Stacey had been fatally wounded while cutting
cane, the fate of the resolution would be fixed in a very different direction, with the
story ending perhaps in a funeral. Since the story is about family, the climax is the
moment at which the fate of the unbroken circle of the family is determined: in this
case for a happy reunion despite difficult circumstances.
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