A chain reaction
starts with something, the
instigator, so to speak, which may be an
object or a
person,
animal, etc. It is followed by a
series of incidents, that form the chain, and usually ends with some big
event, or it could phase out
slowly.. it may never end. The main thing to
remember is that it is a
chain, and all things that happen in it are
linked. Any way..
Here's a good
example of a real-life
chain reaction that just happened today, in
my crazy life:
My
sister was being a
jerk. I was trying to prepare dinner (
spaghetti, for those interested).. I told my sister to get lost because she was
driving me crazy. She in turn threw
cheese in my hair. This was funny to me, so I threw the
cheese back at
her, attempting to get it into her hair. She then did it again and in order to
stop the cycle I got up to play-wrestle/fight with her, and she took off out the
door. At that point, she realized that this would only lead to me
locking her
out, so she tried to come back in as I was
closing the door. The whole thing came to a pretty sudden end when she
shoved her hand through the glass in the door window.
Oh lordy. Needless to say, this wasn't such
a good thing. (Also of
note, this is the second time she's shoved her hand through the same door.)
The
initial incident in this
case was my sister, and the final incident was the
smashing of the window. The cycle will of course
continue, because we'll both get in trouble for
breaking it, etc., etc.
There is also a
moral to that story:
Don't smash windows, it gets you in
trouble.