Setting -
An imaginary, semi-barbaric kingdom where a king dispenses a unique form of justice - allowing the accused to blindly choose his own fate. No particular time or actual place is strongly evoked by Stockton, and the setting serves merely as a backdrop for the dilemma presented in the story.
Rising Action -
可以这么说,没有rising action, because the story was written is a free flowing way itself...如果一定要说的话,倒数12~9段可以算是吧,就是作者自己开始分析之前...不过这么说好像也比较牵强...= =