Cranes by Peter Meinke Response

The symbol of the cranes reveals the meaning of the story that even though love is forever, time can cut everything short and cause 2 people's love for eachother to end here on earth.  The cranes on the ground were a symbolism of the couple's love here on earth.  Although the cranes will not live forever,  there love for one another will continue on to eternity.  When the cranes plunged upwards toward the sun, this process symbolized the souls of the couple after they die and how they will float up to heaven and be together once again.  The crane is a very calm, peaceful creature which symbolizes the life and death of the couple.  The meaning of the couple's lives and love is told with how the cranes live and prosper in the moment.  Time is a very precious part of life that needs to be taken with great care and used wisely. If this subject is not taken advantage of the way it is supposed to, one's love with another will be cut short and be almost useless.  The short life span of the cranes tells how time is short and life only happens once, so make the most of it. 

Personal Response to Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

He is able to evoke such strong emotions because of the fact that we know of the feelings of pity, lonliness, and isolation, we are able to see the author's perspective towards Bartleby.  Although Bartleby very much isolates himself from the rest of the group, the narrator as well as one of the character's obviously are somewhat hurt for Bartleby and want to help him, although they just dont quite know how to help someone who isolates themselves.  Bartleby's eccentric character and inscrutable personality has great universal appeal because of the fact that most people feel guilty towards Bartleby since he is  poor and doesnt associate with others.  Our natural response to this type of behavior is sympathy towards the isolated character and to try to reach out and help in any way possible.  Although both the narrator and the other scriveners were not able to help Bartleby's distorted perpetual ways, this creates more empathy, sympathy, attention, and interest to the character of Bartleby to where people want to learn more about his character and personality. 

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville Character Analysis

Character Analysis

Narrator-elderly man, ambitious lawyer, "safe man"seldom loses temper, level headed and industrious, calm and sane until he meets Bartleby, has a soft spot for him. 

Bartleby-strange scrivener, weird, lonely doesnt try to fit in, very isolated, drives everyone else crazy because he would rather not do what everyone else does, 

Turkey-copyist, short pursy Englishman, energetic, 60 years old, right hand man who is getting old, he is a very good worker in the morning but has a bad temper by the afternoon. makes more mistakes then

Nippers-copyist, opposite person of turkey, he is younger and works best in the afternoon, usually has stomach problems in the morning and has a bit of ocd to make him always change the height of his desk

Gingernut-office-boy, doesnt really accept Bartleby but always runs to go get ginger nut cakes for the other copyists thats how he got his name 


Questions

1. His attitude towards Turkey, Nippers, and GingerNut is that he knows them very well known and knows them inside out. this affects his relationship with Bartleby by always asking the 3 for their opinion about him. 
2.  He exhibited that he would never lose important papers, and that he was very neat,respectable, and forlorn. He was very thorough and did an extraordinary quantity of writing.
4.  Bartleby is quite different than the average human being. He always distances himself and always says "Id rather not to".  The 3 other scriveners just follow what the narrator does and dont try to change any relationship between them and Bartleby.  Most of his isolation is self imposed but is imposed by the three other scriveners.
5. The other employees treated him as if they were better than him.  They didnt really care to begin a relationship with him and isolated him.  Bartleby followed by always refusing to go with them anywhere. 
6. He wrestles with his conscience by trying to decide if he should just let Bartleby do his own thing and defy him and let him create something great, or if he should take action and do something about his defiance and refusal.  IN the end he pities him and makes exceptions for him. 
7.Bartleby evokes the reader's sympathy by telling us that he is very poor, but evokes anger and frustration by telling us that Bartleby always says "hed rather not to" do whatever the other people do. 
8.Well after Bartleby refuses to change the ways of the Narrator's business, the narrator begins to accommodate to him and makes exceptions for him.  The narrator begins to like Bartleby more after getting to know him. 

Multiple Choice
1. A
2. D
3. E
4. A
5. B
6. A
7.E
8. E
9. A
10. D

Nea Characterization In Saving Sourdi by May-Lee Chai

Indirect
"some men got drunk and i stabbed one of them. I was eleven"- shows how Nea wasn't scared of anyone even at a young age and was very protective of her sister
"I was certain we would at last find the life we deserved"-hopeful for a change and prosperity
"just the two of us, so we could talk about things like boys at school"-very close relationship with her sister sourdi
"I never thought of him as a fork in the road dividing my life with sourdi from sourdi's life with men" doesnt appreciate or like duke, feels lonely and replaced
"i took out the pack of cigarettes id stolen from ma's purse and lit one" shows the stress and how upset she was about her sister
"Ma found that recipe she wanted, that special delicious recipe she was looking for"- is a very good, convincing liar on the top of her head
"its a matter of life and death"-very dramatic
"she had made her choice, and she hadn't chosen me"- felt replaced and all alone, like her sister had given up all hope and nea felt terrible that there was nothing she could do
"i wish i was a naga"-wants to protect sourdi and make everything okay

Direct
chews her nails when nervous
has no remorse for stabbing the man, wants to kill him
is the younger sister of sourdi
is very emotional
felt as if she was a wicked girl
was glad she stabbed the man
jealous of her sister's beauty
fast runner

Killings Short Story Analysis

Plot Structure for Killings

Setting-Merrimack Valley, MA in late summer though fall
Character-Matt and wife Ruth, Strout and Maryann, Steve and Frank, and Willis
Conflict-Man vs Self, his conflict was what to do about Strout, whether to kill him or let him be
Rising Action-Matt was carrying the gun and planning to kill Strout
Climax-The climax was right before Matt kills Strout
Falling Action-Matt kills Strout and disposes of the body. Cleans up the murder and goes home.
Resolution-Matt and Ruth are in bed. Matt deals with the killing that he did for Ruth.

A Rose For Emily Short STory Plot Diagram

A Rose for Emliy

Plot is not in chronological order.  It begins at the resolution and flashbacks to the conflict, climax, and resolution.
Exposition-Paragraph 60, last line when the police find the dead body in the attic with her grey hair and pillow indention next to it
Setting-1931 in an older, conservative town, mostly in Miss Emily's House or right outside of it
Character- Miss Emily is an old, fat, partially crazy woman who killed her husband/lover right before she died herself; the negro was a black man who took care and brought food to Miss Emily, he didnt talk very much;Homer Barron was Emily's love who ran out on her, he could make her laugh and had a great sense of humor
Conflict-the townspeople wanted to expose Miss EMily and basically ruin her until there was nothing left, they wanted to destroy her privacy (external, man v man)
Rising Action-People of the town felt sorry for her since she just lost her father and sweetheart, they called her "poor Miss Emily" to show their sympathy for how badly they treated her as well as others
Climax- the lady makes everyone think she will kill herself with poison if they don't stop trying to get into her business, makes it worse since everyone wants to know what will happen to Miss Emily
Falling Action-Miss Emily dies herself, people finally get to look inside her house and be nosey with it
Resolution-everyone finally leaves Miss Emily to rest in the ground, and she will no longer be bothered anymore

Short Story Plot Notes

• Plot?
• The procession of events that unfold throughout a story
• A means of revealing character
• A beginning, a middle, and an end
• The significant acts or experiences in a story
• Basic Plot Structure
• exposition is the point in the plot where the reader learns everything he needs to know in order to understand the text
• setting and character are established here
• example-boy loves girl (now in indiana)
• conflict or inciting incident is the point when the protangonist is first introduced to a problem to solve
• example-secret rival boy causes girl to leave boy
• Rising action is the process by which the conflict develops and is usually worsened
• Example-boy's efforts to regain girl drive her into the arms of rival boy
• Climax is the turning point of the conflict in the story, the peak of suspense, the moment where everything changes
• example- boy confronts girl with the ugly truth about rival boy
• falling action is the process by which the conflict is made better
• example-girl is disgusted with both boys, but slowly allows boy to regain her trust
• resolution is point at which the problem conflict is resolved
• Example-boy gets girl back
• Types of conflict
• internal-conflicts related to character's beliefs, ideas, imagination or emotions that orgininate from inside the character
• external-conflicts related to the character's physical condition that orgininate from outside the character
• man vs man, man vs nature, man vs machine/technology, man v self, man v god, man v society, man v animal
• Plot doesnt have to be chronological
• in medias res0middle of things, begins in middle
• flashback-plot strategy in which important plot elements are learned in retrospect
• various orders of events
• begin at climax, flasahback to behin then conclude
• begin at conflict, flashback to exposition
• begin at resolution, flashback to climax or conflict or exposition
• keep important details hidden until the end, then flashback to fill them
• Good stories have multiple plots
• frame stories-stories within a story
• internal and external stories
• point of view-each charactre has his or her own plots
• subplots-plots that are of less importance but which are related to the main plot of a story

Analysis on Friends

• setting is monica and rachel's apartment
• conflict is ross is nervous for dinner and wants to go but noone will get ready
• rising action is all the arguments that arise till they get dressed to go, argument with the seat, and the message from richard, and the phoebe mess on dress, rains,took underwear
• climax is richard has a girl on his answering machine
• falling action is
• resolution is