Portoviejo is a large commercial center for the province, where there are two shopping malls, one with a large hypermarket, 8 movie theaters, food court, and other stores. From Wikipedia
The Exposition in the Short Story Studying the short story. The exposition in the short story usually occurs at the beginning of the story and contains essential and sufficient information to act as the foundation upon which the writer constructs/develops the story. It is the place where we, as readers, are drawn into the fictional world that the writer is creating.
1 Details, details, details. 2  Showing instead of telling. 3  Movement: Action is indispensable in a narrative essay, the sense of people and things moving through time and space. 4  Close study of short story writers will pay off in the long run here.