The full plot has the following 5 main components:

- Slideshow: Also known as opening or opening, has the task of introducing the story taking place (social circumstances, time, place, characters, ...). The story of The Hunter and the Ape (Lep Ton - Xtoi), is an introduction to the marksman hunter, "if the wild beast didn't meet him, today would be considered as real". With the short story "Besides the Lake Ham Nguyet" (Pham Thi Kim Nhuong), the beginning is an introduction about an ancient custom of the village "I": When the girls turn old, the girls in the village are all allowed to wash their faces with soap. the water of Ham Nguyet lake of Huyen Khong pagoda when the arc is filled with moonlight in particular and on his wish. Believing in that custom, two "me" sisters, after nearly four years away from home, now return to the village to prepare to perform this ritual.

– Knotting: The occurrence of events that mark the beginning of a relationship, a conflict that will inevitably continue to occur and develop. In The Hunter and the Ape, the knot if the hunter carries a crossbow into the forest, finds a grey-haired mother ape sitting with her baby on a rock, and he gently pulls an arrow to hit the mother. The key to the story is the event that a little girl named Tam came to play with Ms Ngan and the introduction to the life of a beautiful girl who "sees nothing but darkness".

– Development: This is a collection of events showing the development and movement of relationships and conflicts that have occurred. This is the longest part of the plot, usually covering the entire sequence of events from post-knot through to pre-climactic events. The character's personality is mainly determined in this part. Characters are placed in many different situations, conflicts are deployed on many fronts.

In the story of The Huntsman and the Ape, which are the events of the mother ape being hit by an arrow, she turns her angry gaze on the hunter, her hand still not leaving her baby. Meanwhile, the hunter stood still waiting to receive the results. In the story "Besides the lake Ham Nguyet", the main development is the dialogue between "I" and Ms Ngan, the peaceful and poetic village scene on the night of Nguyen Tieu, the crowded scene of people going to Huyen Pagoda without worship, … In the development part, the author presents a series of events, the contradictions are exploited in all its aspects, the conflicts of the plot are deployed on many aspects, the characters are placed in different situations. with intense challenges across space and time. From there the plot entered the climax.

– The climax (also known as the climax): The most extreme, most challenging event for the character that leads to a major turning point in the development of the plot and brings to an end the development. The climax is usually a moment, a brief moment, but from here the story goes in the direction of being resolved. The climax of the story of The Hunter and the Ape is a moving event: The mother ape, before she died, gently laid her baby down, quickly grabbed the pillow wool over the baby's head, and then she picked the large leaf and milked it. in and put it in your mouth. With Ham Nguyet Lake, it is the strange wish of Ms. Ngan about a good fortune, a miracle that will come to the mother of… a sister from the same village! This makes Tam "startled" and extremely "surprised".

Both of the above climactic events have caused great shocks to the souls of the characters in the story as well as the readers. From there, it prepares for appropriate changes in both logic of movement, development of objective reality and psychological logic and human action. If the plot of the work is intended to directly represent the struggle between opposing social forces, then the climax is the event that marks the development of the conflict to its fullest extent, requiring immediate resolution. in a certain direction. – Opening the button (also known as the end): Is the decisive event right after the climax. It is the elimination of conflict, but not always the elimination of conflict. All the processes from the hunter's heartfelt remorse and emotion, to the fact that he broke his crossbow, quietly returned and since then never hunted again; The fact that Ms. Ngan confessed the reason why she made a wish like no other, to the admiration of "I" at her heart, and then excitedly thinking about the wish I would fulfill on the full moon night of the first lunar month. The following is considered the opening part. After the events of these two parts, the conflict and contradiction of the two stories no longer exists.

The endings of specific works are also varied. There is an ending that marks the complete resolution of the conflict described in the work (most commonly in folk tales, Nom stories, ...) There is an end that marks the elimination of the conflict, defining the character of the work. character's way and fate, but the conflict may still persist or not be completely eliminated (for example, at the end of Que Huong's two short stories Ti dust and A wai?).

In addition to the above components, the plot has an additional "great sound" or "end", "post-history" in addition to the opening part telling about future events or commenting on the event that happened such as: The case of two long stories, One Thien Dreamed and Opened a Window, by Nguyen Ngoc Thuan. In A Dream, the ending is the incantation about dewdrops - wishes bearing the shape of a baby's heart, pure and reminiscent of a child's innocent, familiar but also very fairy-tale world. wondrous. In Closing eyes and opening the window, these are the innocent but interesting associations of the characters - the narrator declares "I" about children - the stars constantly twinkling on the carpet of the sky when every night The boy "closed his eyes and opened the window and "looked" out at the imaginary garden". In contemporary short stories, the writer even "assembles" into the work both the "proclamation" and "afterword" such as The Tale of Beautiful Days, Nhan Su (Hoa Vang), My Truong Chi ( Bao Vu)…

The plot is not always complete with the above components and is not necessarily presented in such a later order. There are stories without a beginning. There are stories that don't seem to have a climax and open the button like Da Ngan's Mien Garden is far away, The secret between me and the black lizard by Ly Lan. There is another story that opens by placing the reader in the middle of the story's development, such as the Embroidered Golden Flag, Legend of the Sea, Give me a ticket to childhood, etc., for example. Some stories have an integrated form of "story within a story" as in Noble hearts, Eyes closed and windows open, etc. The presentation depends on the author's artistic intentions through the conclusion. plot structure and work structure.