1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?
-From all the actions and events the main character had faced, the author's attitude wanted to explain the importance of determination and how incredible it changed her life.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, to experience anger or fear?
-The story was more in a tragic style because it was quite stressful being in a situation of not accepted in a specific job. And for sure the author would want me to feel quite sad and experience the anger she had from the events.
3.What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?
-The author's attitude toward the character should be as similar to how she viewed herself because she was actually the main character in the story. She was actually telling about her experiences so it's very likely that she should like as well as trusting the character which is herself.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Symbolism of the Story
1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
- There's only one main symbol that was describing the whole story which is the action of determination the main character is having, this help leading her to her goal. It represents as a power that keeps a person in continuing her task.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- The streetcar could have a symbolic meaning in the story. It could be defined as a reputation that a person is really putting a determination to get. It could became a main goal of a person and could also become the center of needs in the story.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
-The main character's mother who represents like her hope; cheering her up and giving motivations, this is because of her providing of special and touching advices. She played the main key role that causes the main character to success, she was a very important symbol.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what ways?
-Yes, most of the settings' aspects seemed to be symbolic and in a racism way because people in the that time are quite separates by races.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- There's actually more than one symbol that are used throughout the story. The symbols are not changing and there's one main symbol in it which is the determination the main character has; this symbol continues the story and is totally used to the end of the story.
- There's only one main symbol that was describing the whole story which is the action of determination the main character is having, this help leading her to her goal. It represents as a power that keeps a person in continuing her task.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- The streetcar could have a symbolic meaning in the story. It could be defined as a reputation that a person is really putting a determination to get. It could became a main goal of a person and could also become the center of needs in the story.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
-The main character's mother who represents like her hope; cheering her up and giving motivations, this is because of her providing of special and touching advices. She played the main key role that causes the main character to success, she was a very important symbol.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what ways?
-Yes, most of the settings' aspects seemed to be symbolic and in a racism way because people in the that time are quite separates by races.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- There's actually more than one symbol that are used throughout the story. The symbols are not changing and there's one main symbol in it which is the determination the main character has; this symbol continues the story and is totally used to the end of the story.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Imagery
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
- It would be the moment that her mom is giving her an advice that "Can't do is like Don't Care". It really stang out in my reading because the word is quite touching and meaningful.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
-The image that show many people in the line waiting for the ticket quite frightened me because it seemed to be telling how crowded and how people really need the transportation. It is describing the need of streetcars and how well the job was.
3. Which of your five senses 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?
-It should be my sight and my touch sense because I could feel and see the story inside my imagination. After picturing it with the image in the book, it even describe my specifically how the story looks. I think that the author wants the reader to know her experience and understand the world of finding jobs.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
-I think that my reactions and feeling are actually understanding the motivations the main character needs. And my reactions also did describe the overall meaning of the story because I could picture up how the situation was and how the character actually was feeling.
- It would be the moment that her mom is giving her an advice that "Can't do is like Don't Care". It really stang out in my reading because the word is quite touching and meaningful.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
-The image that show many people in the line waiting for the ticket quite frightened me because it seemed to be telling how crowded and how people really need the transportation. It is describing the need of streetcars and how well the job was.
3. Which of your five senses 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?
-It should be my sight and my touch sense because I could feel and see the story inside my imagination. After picturing it with the image in the book, it even describe my specifically how the story looks. I think that the author wants the reader to know her experience and understand the world of finding jobs.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
-I think that my reactions and feeling are actually understanding the motivations the main character needs. And my reactions also did describe the overall meaning of the story because I could picture up how the situation was and how the character actually was feeling.
Point of View
1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?
-Because the story is about a person explaining her own autobiography, it was a first-person perspective in which she did refers herself as "I".
2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
-I believed that it does furnish a clue to describe how a person's opinion and thoughts about job could affect much about his/her life. It is kind of telling a real world how hard a person is getting the job he/she likes.
3. 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?
-The narrator should be reliable since she was the main character in the story. And that means she was actually knowing most things including the inner thoughts of her mother. But she seemed to don't understand how the person with different races think and feels.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character.
-Most was being revealing but because the focal character was the narrator herself, she should be withholding some information that was negative about her.
-Because the story is about a person explaining her own autobiography, it was a first-person perspective in which she did refers herself as "I".
2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
-I believed that it does furnish a clue to describe how a person's opinion and thoughts about job could affect much about his/her life. It is kind of telling a real world how hard a person is getting the job he/she likes.
3. 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?
-The narrator should be reliable since she was the main character in the story. And that means she was actually knowing most things including the inner thoughts of her mother. But she seemed to don't understand how the person with different races think and feels.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character.
-Most was being revealing but because the focal character was the narrator herself, she should be withholding some information that was negative about her.
Characters
1.Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
-The main character in the story is actually the author herself. She was a black race women which means that she had quite a dark skin.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/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?
She was having a situation of finding one specific job that she put interest on. She lived with her mother and she seemed to firstly was dependent because she doesn't had a job yet.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
-One good characteristic of this main character is that she was goal-oriented and also motivated in one specific thing. Working on streetcars is what she plan to do and even though how many better jobs had run to her, she leave them apart and went back to her goal. And because the time period is during when black and white races are quite separated, her interacting between different races used to lead a conflict. She seemed to don't care much how she looks but cares mostly on her values, thoughts, and feelings. And in the story, she seemed to be quite discontented because there were none of her happy feelings.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
-The conflict is based on her race and the work she was finding. And her race mainly started the conflict because she was applying a job to a white race person. Things started to be resolved all because of her motivation.
5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
-The main character is suitable to become a developing character because she had a big change in thoughts once she was thinking of applying a job. It was a large change and she was actually sufficiently motivated. The change actually had an enough time because this change could occurs as long as she want.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Setting
1. Place:
-The story took place at San Francisco (in a city), in the offices of the Market Street Railway Company, also on the streetcar, happening in both indoors and outdoors.
2. Time:
-Happen during the period of the separation between black and white races, on the season before Spring, but no date of month or an hour of the day labeled.
3. Social Environment:
-All about receiving recommendations from a mother and having a determination to get a job to work in a streetcar by a black race women(lower class) with an environment of racism and sexism from the upper class.
-The story took place at San Francisco (in a city), in the offices of the Market Street Railway Company, also on the streetcar, happening in both indoors and outdoors.
2. Time:
-Happen during the period of the separation between black and white races, on the season before Spring, but no date of month or an hour of the day labeled.
3. Social Environment:
-All about receiving recommendations from a mother and having a determination to get a job to work in a streetcar by a black race women(lower class) with an environment of racism and sexism from the upper class.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Plot questionnaires
1. What is the story all about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
- The story is all about a woman who really had a hard time finding a job because of her race. One main event is when she got rejected for the job she want because she's black, that causes a dissappointment in her.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
-They mostly are well arranged in a chronological order.
3. How is the story narrated?
-The narrator is actually telling about her life and which it seems to be all about the summaries of what had happened.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
-The plot could be slow-paced because the story was actually going smoothly by order.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
-Because her character seemed to be wanting one specific goal, or job, she then put less care on the other jobs that she put less interests on and this continues the plot.
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 conflict was between the author and the receptionist in an intellectual and emotional way. It's a conflict because of the view of races. And they doesn't seemed to be resolved because the receptionist did made an escape of conversation. The conflict could be said that it was in a subtle way because it's quite hard to differentiated them two.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur?
-The climax seemed to occur during the author's first register to work. The ending seemed to be indeterminate because it doesn't explains much the author's feeling.
8. Does the plot have unity?
-Yes, because the whole plot was actually describing one effect of the story. It incident actually was leading naturally to the next.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence?
-It could be the opportunity and the motivation of the main character. It leads the character to what she seemed to be wanting and maybe because of chance. The occurrence seemed to be initiating her positive thinking. This seemed to be more probable than improbable because it occurs in a real life event.
- The story is all about a woman who really had a hard time finding a job because of her race. One main event is when she got rejected for the job she want because she's black, that causes a dissappointment in her.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
-They mostly are well arranged in a chronological order.
3. How is the story narrated?
-The narrator is actually telling about her life and which it seems to be all about the summaries of what had happened.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
-The plot could be slow-paced because the story was actually going smoothly by order.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
-Because her character seemed to be wanting one specific goal, or job, she then put less care on the other jobs that she put less interests on and this continues the plot.
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 conflict was between the author and the receptionist in an intellectual and emotional way. It's a conflict because of the view of races. And they doesn't seemed to be resolved because the receptionist did made an escape of conversation. The conflict could be said that it was in a subtle way because it's quite hard to differentiated them two.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur?
-The climax seemed to occur during the author's first register to work. The ending seemed to be indeterminate because it doesn't explains much the author's feeling.
8. Does the plot have unity?
-Yes, because the whole plot was actually describing one effect of the story. It incident actually was leading naturally to the next.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence?
-It could be the opportunity and the motivation of the main character. It leads the character to what she seemed to be wanting and maybe because of chance. The occurrence seemed to be initiating her positive thinking. This seemed to be more probable than improbable because it occurs in a real life event.
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