Story
Practical analysis 1
While reading the following story, I noted its plot structure:
1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader's interest?
All the events arranged chronologically, they catch readers interest, because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be.
2. What is the role of the exposition?
The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background information, sets the tense, establishes the situation, and dates the action. It introduces the characters and the conflict, or at last the potential for conflict.
3. What is the climax of the story?
Practically at the end of the story we can see climax:
“And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this novel mood. An instantaneous and strong impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fate. He would pull himself out of the mire; he would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had taken possession of him. There was time; he was comparatively young yet; he would resurrect his old eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him. To-morrow he would go into the roaring down-town district and find work. A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver. He would find him to-morrow and ask for the position. He would be somebody in the world. He would…”
4. Is there a denouement in the story?
No, the author leaves out the denounment.
5. What is the plot structure technique here?
That story has a straight line narrative presentation, - the events are arranged as they occur, in chronological order;
This short story has a flashback “… for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars…” - author gives the reader a hint that once Soapy had a home and
While reading the following story, I noted its plot structure:
1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader's interest?
All the events arranged chronologically, they catch readers interest, because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be.
2. What is the role of the exposition?
The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background information, sets the tense, establishes the situation, and dates the action. It introduces the characters and the conflict, or at last the potential for conflict.
3. What is the climax of the story?
Practically at the end of the story we can see climax:
“And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this novel mood. An instantaneous and strong impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fate. He would pull himself out of the mire; he would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had taken possession of him. There was time; he was comparatively young yet; he would resurrect his old eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him. To-morrow he would go into the roaring down-town district and find work. A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver. He would find him to-morrow and ask for the position. He would be somebody in the world. He would…”
4. Is there a denouement in the story?
No, the author leaves out the denounment.
5. What is the plot structure technique here?
That story has a straight line narrative presentation, - the events are arranged as they occur, in chronological order;
This short story has a flashback “… for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars…” - author gives the reader a hint that once Soapy had a home and