Tense: Present
The story is told completely chronologically, with almost all of it taking place in the present, one event after another. The very, very rare instances where the narrator breaks from the present is when he explains something to the audience, i.e. when he describes Mr. A's past and when he describes how they got their fake church. For the most part, however, there are no deviations from complete chronology.
Major events in the story are broken by page breaks. They are, in order:
1) Before narrator talks with Sylvia Loomis about the gangs
2) After the narrator and Mr. A give Quinn the job of dealing with gans
3) After they deal with Quinn's attack by the gangs
4) After Mr. A tells the narrator about the recent troubles in CWL
5) Before they hire Samuel
6) He goes home to his cheating wife
7) Narrator finds severed hand of the boy
8) At Halloween
9) He takes the boys home
1-9 is all rising action. Each event is more extreme than the last, escalating to the climax: his wife leaves him with his sons. The denouement is everything afterwards: him going to Mr. A to find out that CWL was going under, seeing the McKinnons' deaths, meeting Samuel alone at night. There is no resolution to speak of; the story ends tragically, with the narrator losing everything he's ever loved.
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