Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Questions "Tone"

Q: What is the Author's attitued towards the actions or events?
A: His attitude would be pity towards all the prisoners and emphasizing on how close they all were. Also he would emphasize how feared the warder was.

Q: Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to feel happy, sad, laugh or cry or experience or fear?
A: The story is both tragic and frightening at some scenes. And the Author wants us to feel happy, sad, cry, and also fear.

Q: What is the author's attitude towards the narrator's characters? Does the author dislike/ like or trust/ distrust the Character of the Author?
A: The author most likely keeps his attitude towards the narrator the same throughout and he likes and trusts the characters of the author.

Questions: "Symbolism"

1. What are some of the symbols in the story? 

The symbols in the story appear to be events that practically mean special things within the story. One of these events was when Brille would go through hardships having to be worried about his friends and comrades which could stand for a strong friendship. 
Another could be Brille and his friends and also the warder getting along in the end symbolizing new friendship and forgiveness among two parties or enemies.

2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?

I think there were only a few objects that stood for a meaning such as the cabbage which could symbolized for greed because all were taking the cabbage for themselves. Another object which could stand for something would be tobbaco and smoke, it could stand for the rebelliousness of the people.

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?

Brille could stand for Bravery, Meekness, Love, Kindness, and Justice.
Warder stands for Anger, Pride, Hatred, and Evil
Brille's Friends can stand for Home, relationships, and friendships


4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic?

No i don't think there is.

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?

I don't think any one symbol was used throughout the whole story rather they kept changing and being stressed.




Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Questions: "Imagery"

Q: What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or word stand out in your reading of the story?
 A: Scenes  where the warder would beat Brille senseless and phases when the warder would be very raciest towards Brille.

Q: Did a particular image make you feel happy , or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
 A: Only scenes where Brille was being abused by warder mad me angry and disturbed

Q: Which of your five sense 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?
 A: Through sight because i felt like i could see what was happening. I associated it with a lion eating a helpless fawn. I think he wanted us to feel angry and frustrated or even scared.

Q: How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contributes to the overall meaning of the story?
A: I think that i would be confused and that i know that everyone deserves a second chance.

Questions: "Point of view"

Q:  What point of view does the story use?
A : Third person point of view

Q:What are the advantages of the chosen point of view?
A : Some of the advantages the story in a third person point of view is that in everyday it is good to listen to the story. If it was in first person point of view it will be hard to get what actually happens in the other events.

Q: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?
A:  The narrator is mostly reliable but i think that he/she has only limited knowledge on the whole story because it only mentions two character's backgrounds but with the events the narrator know about them in quite some detail.

Q: Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he/she ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
A: The point of view is used to reveal. and No he does not unfairly withhold important information.

Questions: "Character"

Q: Who is/ are the main characters in the sotry? what does the main character look like?
A:
- Brille: Tall African man who is a political prisoner in Span One
- Warder Hennetjie: Tall and big American man who is hot tempered and aggressive

Q: Describe the main character's situation. Where does he or 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?
 A:
- Brille is a prisoner and he and his family live within the bounds of Span one. He is a very patient man who is calm. He is usually harassed by Warder but then also gets to bring Warder to justice. He doesn't rely on anyone for support but instead he supports his comrades.

Q: what are some of the chief characteristics of the character? How are these revealed in the story? How does the main character interact wither character? Note the degree of complexity of his/ her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearance, their habits, mannerism, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontent?
A: Brille is apparently a kindhearted man who portrays kindness and respect to all those around him. Even though Warder harasses him at time, he still shows that he is slow to anger but still possess bravery and courage as he fights back through his words.

Q:What sort of conflict is the character facing with is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? if so how?
A: The conflict is when Brille is often abused by warder and is then resolved when warder is brought to justice and is kept in prison.

Q: Is any character a developing character? If so  is his change a large or a small one? It is a plausible change for him?? is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
A: No there isn't a developing character within the story

Monday, February 25, 2013

Questions "SETTING"

SETTINGs
Q: Place: the geographical location of the story -- a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.
A: most of the story takes place in a jail and in a work camp in the south of Africa.

Q: 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.
A: It doesn't state the period in history/ seasons of the year/ dates/ nor hours of the day.

Q: Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class)
A: The environment is in SpanOn. And the prisoners who are polititicians who have done nothing wrong are in a work camp in Africa.

Questions "PLOT"

1. Plot
 Q: What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
 A: This story is about a prisoner named Brille who is in a jail. He caught a waner who was stealing fertilizer and makes an agreement with that waner.

 Q: Are the main events in the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
 A: They are mostly in chronological order but there are also some flashbacks in some parts of the story.

 Q: How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
 A: The story is mostly protrayed in a third person narrative and yes there are flashbacks and stories within the story.

 Q: Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced.
 A: This story is more of a slow paced story, because of all it's details and it is mostly boring.

 Q: How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of the characters move the plot forward?
 A: The most actions and behaviors that escalated the story the most was when Brille caught the waner and made a deal with the waner.

 Q: 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?
 A: Most of the conflicts in the plot are both physical and intellectual, and they are all resolved when the main character, Brille made a deal with the waner.

Q: 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?
A: The climax of the story was when Brille broke his agreement with the waner and ratted the waner out. It was fairly achieved.

Q: 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?
A: Yes the plot does have unity and all of the episodes are relevant to all the effects of the story, and all grow logically and lead to anther incident.

Q: 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?
A: In the story they don't really use chance but at the later parts like the climax it is used to both resolve and complicate the story further and they are very improbable.