1.What is the story about? What are the main event in the story, and how are they related to each other?

- It's about a clever prisoner who wore glasses. The main even is about that he caught the warden stealing fertilizer for his farm, so he made an agreement to keep it secret.

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

- It was arranged chronologically without single flashback.

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

-It's a 3rd person view point and there aren't a single flashback, nor summaries but there's a story of how it has been lead to main event and ending.

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

-it's slow-paced. The story jumps day by day.

5.How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of character move the plot forward?

-Because Brille knew the secret and his action to gain whatever he could from it, the story moved to an end.

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 confict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?

-The conflict in this story is moral and it's resolved by Braille taking advantages of the conflict and gain what's good for him and his friends.

7.What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the end of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?

-The climax acts as the warden can't stand anymore. The end of the story is happy ending.

8.Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each icident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?

-The plot totally agrees to each other. It seems like this incident can even happens in real life. It's not common but it's a common sense for it to end this way

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

-The chance of warden being caught stealing fertilizer is coincidence but it's totally initiate the story and lead the story on ina good way.

The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

by: Bessie Head

 

 

This project has helped me with my reading. I always feel like not reading anything that isn’t required in subjects and has longer than 10 words a page, but this project pushes me, and let me achieve what I thought I wouldn’t do throughout my life. It grants me ability to read and take note what’s important, reread the hard part and be able to comprehend words clearer than ever. This project also makes me acknowledge that some books are actually fun and should be read and some are even addictive. The book that I chose is called “Elijah Of Buxton” and when I first saw it in the library I was like “why is this kid book in the library”, but then when I actually read it, it was fun and addictive, though a little bit stupid storyline but speak plainly, it’s good. I never thought that a thick book could be so interesting, and I felt like there’s a feather blinding me all this time, after this project has ended I think I will find some times, and sit quietly, in a peaceful place, pick up some books, and read it with smile on the face of mine.

The main character of Elijah of Buxton is Elijah. He’s a black boy who was born free and hasn’t faced any cruelty in his life yet. Elijah seems to have no interest in anything, or anyone, he’s just like ordinary 10 years old boy, all he wanted to do is having fun. Throughout the story, in every chapter, Elijah has learned something new to him, something that seems to be a very important thing for him in future such as bravery, honesty, strength, and humor. He personally likes mystery thing even though his parent doesn’t like him to go somewhere far. The first thing I saw as  what Eli wanted to accomplish is almost at the end of the story, he wants to help slaves, and with his power alone, he can’t do anything, not even sneaking in undetected, so he gathered his brave and told adults in the settlement to went there and help the slaves. This action has shown that what he has learned in the fore chapter, he applied it nicely and beautifully. What I think is the most important thing that motivates him is how rough and cruel the world can be, he once saw person died before him, he saw slavery and he saw robbery. So those events must be the things that has push him this far to be able to do what is right and not to stray from the rightful things. Although I think that this kid sometimes imagining things, like someone pushes him, someone is hiding and tried to kill him and stuff, although many might called cowardice but I would called it premonition (even though most of the times, he’s wrong). His dreams have never been clarify because he has never talked about them to anyone, and neither his goals nor motives, but we can read and sense those in the story.

Sorry for my bad comprehension, I was a bit nervous