3. In terms of rising action, climax, and falling action, describe the structure of the plot, stating when the action stops rising and reaches a climax and begins to fall. Rising Action: It started one night when Margo sneaks into Quentin’s room. Since then, Quentin follows Margo on her adventurous mission for revenge of her boyfriend cheating. The two (Quentin and Margo) get closer which makes Quentin to feel like he is going to be close friends with her since that day. However, Margo goes missing the next day, leaving only few clues for Quentin to search for herself. Climax: Quentin with his friends, Ben and Radar, find few clues at Margo’s room when her parents are out. At her room they find Walt Whitman’s book, Leaves of Grass, and …show more content…
Since when they are at the top of SunTrust Building Margo once mentioned the term paper town “It’s a paper town. Look at it, all those paper houses and paper streets and the people too.” She meant that the people only care about things that concern them blocking out everything else. A “Paper Town” refers to a fake town on a map created by cartographers to defer copyright infringement. Fictitious entries on maps may also be called phantom settlements, trap streets, cartographer’s follies, or other names. They are all intended to serve as traps for identifying copyright …show more content…
From the beginning it is shown the fun and excitement in having friend/s which is clearly shown during the childhood of Margo and Quentin, and with Quentin and his friend Ben and Radar. As the story continue the characters are starting to choose the route that they will take, this can also be called “decision making”. It is obvious that Margo, a mysterious girl with the kink on mysterious events and Quentin, a teen who prefer not to get in trouble most of the time, took different route in life. Margo then make Quentin realized that living in the comfort zone is nothing compare to exploring what’s outside. Margo used to leave clues every time she left, and not every clues are meant to be solve some clues are merely note saying not to
Kenny Hsieh In the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck foreshadows Lennie's death in the novel in a numerous of ways. Foreshadowing gives people hints on what is going to happen further in the story. Steinbeck uses techniques, like actions, animals and animal imagery, and the title to foreshadow the last chapter. The first technique is the actions of what someone did that foreshadows the last chapter of the novel.
Epiphany: a moment of sudden revelation or insight. In the stories many acts of “sudden revelation or insight” occurred. In the short story “Con’s” by Jess Walters and “Killings” by Andre Dubus the characters Lisa in “Con’s” and Matt in “Killings” experience epiphanies.
(57) Vengeance can spread once a fight ends. In this particular novel, conflicts go to another level by spreading rumors and causing drama. The book itself uses many conflicts to combine the plot. It goes step by step as a rising action, then going down with a descriptive idea about the main
How does Steinbeck show the failing dreams of all the main characters, and how easy their goals are shattered throughout the book? Throughout the book, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie, two labor workers that are run out of their previous employment in Weed, find a ranch to work on in Salinas Valley California to fulfill their dreams of being rich and having their own farm. Salinas Valley is where they plan to stay until they have saved enough money to have their own ranch and move on. Besides the dreams George and Lennie have, many other people on the ranch have ones as well. While Steinbeck illustrates the journey the characters go through to achieve their dreams, their failed attempt occurs for numerous reasons.
Page 2: Character descriptions The antagonist and the protagonist in this story are Curely and George respectively. George: small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and strong features, strong hands, slender arms and thin bony nose. Is like the protector of Lennie, and saves him from every trouble he gets into.
“Paper Towns” is a story that is all about adventure, and therefore has a quest as the main (advancer) in the story. It results in the loss of innocence while pushing boundaries during the exciting time of adolescence. It possesses all of the five key elements of a quest as stated in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster. It starts with (a), a quester, which is in this case the main character Quentin, the protagonist of the story. Then (b), a place to go, which ends up being Agloe, NY.
By doing this he portrays that there has not been any improvement with George and Lennie’s dream and also that of the other characters. The novel begins with the death of a mouse, “Jus’ a dead mouse, George. I didn’t kill it. Honest! I found it dead.”
Montag soon figures out that the mysterious girl is Clarisse McClellan, his new teenage neighbour. Clarisse opens Montag’s eyes to a new perspective and tells him about the past. For example, Montag learned that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them, and billboards used to be 20 feet long. After his deep conversation with Clarisse, Montag starts to question whether or not he enjoys burning books, and realizes that there is no real happiness in his life. Many events trigger Montag’s awareness of himself and his society.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a story about two best friends named Lennie Small and George Milton's small adventure on a ranch. While on the ranch they encounter came to face new people and small conflicts. They also learn about the other characters dreams, while they add on to their own. As the story progresses readers learn that George and Lennie have a close bond, but in certain situations Lennie gets George into serious trouble representing Lennie as a burden. George did the right thing when he killed Lennie because Lennie’s a danger to others, George was showing compassion, and Lennie’s a danger to himself.
Where there is a mood of fear, suspicion, and anxiety, there is also tragedy, as there is in this novel by John Steinbeck. In Of Mice and Men nearly every scene serves as foreshadowing for the inevitable tragic ending. The flashback scene of the trouble in Weed hints that Lennie may have another unfortunate interaction with a woman later in the novel. Lennie is enticed by a girl’s dress and wants to touch it because it is soft.
Knowing that Lennie has killed Curley’s wife and will be shot by Curley, George rushes to the river to get to Lennie first. The two men talk for a short while, then George silently brings the gun to Lennie’s head and shoots him. Steinbeck’s use of foreshadowing effective in this novel. Steinbeck
Killing out of love is different than murder or killing with hate. John Steinbeck expresses this in the novel Of Mice and Men. George Milton and Lennie Small, who are two best friends, travel from ranch to ranch. Lennie is a bulky thirty-something-year-old with a developmentally delayed brain, he has the intelligence of a three-year-old. George is the caretaker who helps Lennie survive.
While settling down for the night near a pool of water as George and Lennie embark on their journey to their new jobs, Lennie sulks as George takes away Lennie’s deceased mouse from his pocket. After his separation from the rat, George and Lennie reveal in a conversation how Lennie was known for killing mice quickly because of his brute strength and love for feeling soft things. Even though Lennie is known for his frequent killing of mice, this motif shows how Lennie does not intend to be violent. Instead, he reacts to the mice out of fear and surprise and accidentally kills them in the process. Demonstrating how Lennie is unaware of his strength and simply years to be able to pet his mice.
Literary Analysis Suspense. It's what makes us sit on the edge of our seats at movies, or has us biting our nails as we read. It’s the backbone behind any classic horror film where the babysitter keeps getting unknown phone calls about checking the children and she asks the police to trace the call only to get a call back saying it's coming from upstairs.
There is a lot of things you don't know yet like what jonas’s assignment is, Things like that is what draws people into the novel and makes them want to read more. 2. The cliffhanger In chapter two was that jonas was unsure of what his assignment would be and had a long talk with his parents. This cliffhanger makes you want to read on because you are interested in what jonas’s assignment is. You want to know what it will be.