Reading Project : Short Story Analysis Presentation 04

04 CHARACTERS

1. Who is/are the main characters in the story ?

-There are two main characters in this story, one is from North Korea, poor famer, and he is communist , call 'Tokchae' and the other is from South Korea, policeman , and his name is call 'Songsam a border police.

2. Describe the main character's situation.

-The main character Tokchae's situation is that before, he was living in unified country Korea but after civil war, he was move to North Korea ,  but now he is a poor farmer living with his family and  he wants to move to South Korea for a better life. But he was caught by border police of South Korea which is his old friend Tokchae. Tokchae has to take him to some place to shot him as a illegal.

3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character ?

-The chief characteristic of the main characters are Tokchae is a fatalist and also optimistic about his familiy's future. The other character is loyal and nationalistic but also pressis feelings about what made him nationalistic and these feeling turned to regret.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing ? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resoled? If so, how?

-The police officer faces a conflict of interest between his duty to his country and friendship towards his friends, in the end, he sides with his friend.

5. Is ant character a developing character ? If so, is his change a large or small one ? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?

-The developing character is that of the policeman who turns from nationalism towards friendship and this change is seen very quickly

Reading Project : Short Story Analysis Presentation 03

03 SETTING

1. Place: the geographical location of the story.

-The setting of the story is the 38th parallel between North and South Korea but takes place on the South Korean border.


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 event of the story occur.
-The story takes place after the civil war in Korea after 1953.

3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class).

The social environment is between two classes, one a very poor communist farmer from the North Korea and one is South Korea who is the policemen and non-communist.

Reading Project : Short Story Analysis Presentation 02

02 PLOT

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 two man ; one is from North Korea and another one is from South Korea. When they were children, they were both friends each other and living in a unified country but after civil war, they are enemies. The North Korean man was captured in South Korean by his old friend who is now his enemy and is escorting him to be shot. As they walk , there is a anger between them, but the sight of some cranes brings back some happy memories of when they were children , it is this moment when they forget about the present problem and return to the past.

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

-No, they are not arrange in chronologically. First they are in the present but then they flash back to a time in a past then back to the present.

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

-The story is written in second person and flash backs are used to discribe the differences and changes in a relationship.

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

-The plot is fast paced eventhough flashbacks are used.

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and action of characters move the plot forward?

-The thought of the characters are important to move the plot from anger towards happiness.

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?

-The main confict is moral and emotional where are character leaves his home for better life. The other conflict is where two friends of the past meets as enemies and one of them has to kill the other. The a differents between good and evil is a very suttle because the differents between good and evil here is a matter of opinion and political ideology. The conflict do get resolves by abondoning thought and leaving decisions to instinct.


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?

-The climax in the story happens when two cranes are seen flying up to the air. This happens a the point in the story when the relationship between the two man changes and without words, the cranes are symbolic of their escape back to freedom.


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 plot does have unity regarding time period but the flashback breaks its unity whenever its occurs.

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?

The coincidence of the story is when the two man meets again as the enemy. They are not improbable, this is because  one man was a escaping into the south and the other man was garding the boarder which might happen even now.

Reading Project : Short Story Analysis Presentation 01

CRANES

 By : Hwang Sunwon

Online Novel Portfolio : 06- Summary , Like Dislike

• Summary

          http://youtu.be/n9WqwyPG0hE

• Like Dislike

          http://youtu.be/TDbfxY5n1NE

Online Novel Portfolio : 09- Reflection post

The project has helped me to appreciate the book, The invaders in many different ways. One of the most useful part of this project that I think was how I had to review many different part of the book by using the different tasks which involved in the project. This review meant that I had to reread many different part of the book to understand these tasks, and because I had to reread, it meant that I could understand a lot more details about this story.

One of the most useful task in this project was when I had to write a timeline about events. Sequence of events in the story helps you to understand more about the plot and characters involved, and timeline in this story was very important because the events that happen were set on a specific timeline, for example the arrive of the soldier, the arrive of the santa-cruzinas and the erruption the volcano.

Lastly, the different type of task, for example summary and pictures and the advertising campaign made understanding story more interesting because I have to go out side of the book to find work related to the story, so all in all, this project had some very useful and interesting task which not only made me understanding the story in detail, but also enjoy the story a lot more.

Online Novel Portfolio : 07- Goals, Dreams

One of the most important character in the book was general Hernandez Vasquez Garcia, who was a respected military leader until he started a coup because he thought that the ruling government was too weak and needed to be change and Garcia couldn't wait until the next election. He began by bringing troops into the city and taking over important government position like the media, banking and policy. Soon, Garcia had control of the whole country. When he became head of the country, he wanted to become a dictator so he made himself the leader and began implenting his roles and orders. He was a very strong leader with a lot of ideas which is how to make the country improve.

One of the first thing he did was to try to expand his republic by taking over and controlling the island around his country. But unfortunately, government soldier were already there but he tried anyway. Another one of his goals was to improve his military. This he did because he thought that if he had a stronger military, then he would have a stronger country and that meant he could expand his border to other countries just like the other dictators have done. So, Garcia began trying to control people but the people did not like this and wanted the old government back so they began to protest. And soon , the old government began to be stronger and fight back. After a battle, the government one control and and he was killed.