Monday, 4 March 2013

Tone questionnaires

1. What is the author’s attitude towards actions or event?
The author's attitude towards actions or event are how he response and solve the problem. The author's idea show that each person have different personality and how he act toward society in today's world.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, and to experience anger or fear?
The author in One thousand dollars did not expect us to feel any of these but in other way, the author tried to give us a moral lessons which tell us in the story. We need to understand and tried to solve it as we read it along.
3. What is the author’s attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?
The author's attitude toward characters show that his trust toward narrator how he treat the money and how he solve the problem. Finally Gillian can solve his problem and the character can finally do something which make the author's attitude toward this really strong and understandable.

Symbolism questionnaires

1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
The symbol in this story is the character and humanity, how he treat, how he react to the situation, and how he solve his problems. This show deep down in  this character.

2.Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
The symbolic meaning in this story is that money. One thousand dollars represent responsible and honorable. 


3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
Gillian represent normal human character. In our society, There are many peoples that character like him. Peoples that not dare enough to think by his own and can't solve his problem.

4. Do aspects of the story’s setting seem symbolic? In what way?
The story setting show what community and social are. In each part of the world, They have different culture and tradition as well as this community.

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
yes, the symbol does not change but it does show in different ways example Gillian became better person afterward it symbol that peoples can change their behavior and personalities over time and community.

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Imagery

1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stands out in your reading of the story?
When Gillian gave his money to someone he love even though that woman doesn't love him back.

2. Did a particular image make you feel happy,or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why? 
I felt that the story have moral lesson that deeply taught us. It's not give any feeling but give us lessons.

3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image? 
The author probably want us to fee how character face his problem by his own and how he need to change himself and believe in what he believe.

4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story? 
The reaction lead to the moral lessons and how we can adapt it in our life. 

Point of View

1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the character in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?
From third person thought.

2.What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
Third person have his own opinion of the story. How he thought and opinion help story run and go forward. 

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
reliable, He understanding character in the story. He knew but he did not explain. He only explain his inner thought deep in each main character which is Gillian.

4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
Yes, he use his own point of view to conceal the story. He told each information deeply through the main character.

Character questionaires

1.  Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
The character named Gillian. Gillian is the man who have very different personalities. He got the money from his uncle and decided to do something with the money.

2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support? 
He live in Broadway road. He has only his uncle left. I think that he live with his uncle.

3. What are some chief characteristics (personally traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other character? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feeling; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?  
Gillian does not have confidence, He almost lost 50,000 dollars.  Gillian is happy. He is happy even with out money.but after awhile he became better and done better in his life.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
  He doesn't what to do with one thousand dollars. He can't handle that much money by his own.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time? 
He developed, he changed himself. After a while he gave out money to whom he love. 

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Setting

1. Place: the geographical location of the story – a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.
- New York during 1900s

2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the events of the story occur.
1900s

3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lover, middle, upper class).
- The character live in upper class society. The environment are rich and full of everything. He can do anything he want to.

Plot questionnaires

1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
- The story is about love and human decency. It is about what people should do for love and how he sacrifice his happiness to woman he love. Even though he knows that woman will not love him back. 

2.Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or they arranged in another way?

- Yes, it's arranged chronologically

3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
-The stories within the story used. 

4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow paced?
-fast-paced story

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
-The behaviors of the character teach lesson in the story. It move the plot forward and make story more real-life.

6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
-It's moral that have lesson in the story that let us think by our self. The story can be resolved. The story is more in complex and There is no conflict in the story. Just how he fight with his thought and his personality. 

7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
-Climax of the story is during the main character spend his money carefully on someone's happiness which made him better person and achieve what his uncle want him to.

8.Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
- The story can easily understand but it's have moral lessons in the story which reader will understand after reading and thinking. The story effect how we think in the future, how we spend money, and more moral lessons.

9.What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story, How improbable are they?

-How he change during the story is unexpectable and how he change his life-style and everything make the story fun and exciting.


Relevant Story

One thousand dollars
By O Henry