Read the passage from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn below. During which portion of the narrative arc, or plot structure, does this passage exist? Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table to up six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

At first I hated school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be.

falling action
exposition
rising action
climax