I would say it is when Mangan's Sister and the narrator first talk, as before that happens, the story is just describing the narrator's every day life as seen when he says "This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
The inciting incident in James Joyce's "Araby" occurs when the narrator is captivated by Mangan's sister, experiencing a surge of feelings that lead him to promise to buy her something at the Araby bazaar. This moment sets in motion the narrator's journey to the bazaar and marks the beginning of his quest for love and fulfillment.
Once the Exposition has come to an end, the Inciting Incident begins the forward movement of the plot.
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You need the inciting incident early in the story, so usually in the exposition or rising action.
I think the inciting incident would be when Jonas becomes the Reciever because that is where the story leads up to when he find out about "release" and runs away. -RS
it is when squeaky went to race
To build tension
the shark bit her arm
The pestilence is the inciting incident in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the inciting incident describes the event that triggers all subsequent happenings in the play. It therefore is the pestilence with which Oedipus, the priest of Zeus and the suppliants are concerned when the play opens. The characters spend the rest of the play finding the cause and carrying out the solution to bad harvests, declining populations and dying livestock. Without the inciting incident of the pestilence, there in fact will be no story.
It is the event that sets in motion the central conflict of the story.
to introduce the central conflict early in the story
Inciting incident