Notice the action of this act is not Entering into the Central Conflict or Merrily Jumping into the Central Conflict, but Stumbling into it. The stumbling aspect is important. The character doesn’t actively seek out the Central Conflict at this point, rather he stumbles toward it like a curious toddler, waddling toward the edge of an unsupervised swimming pool. He is simply a trouble magnet, pulled into the mix by the ineluctable draw of fate. While he may have some inkling as to the danger of the situation, and quickly comes to realize just how diametrically opposed his goal is to that of the
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