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.

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.

Getting a Job (the story I chose for the project)

Getting a Job by Maya Angelou

Reflection Post

This project had helped me in many things. It helps create interest in reading, it improved my understanding in vocabulary, and it makes me understand the story including the moral. By reading the story, it taught me many things about passion. Being optimistic and hard working was actually the personality of the story’s main character. By reading each chapter, it makes me want to be successful like him. The book actually told some tips of being successful.

This project also helps me understand more about the life of a famous scientist, William Kamkwamba. He shows me how a child without education has a successful life by his own achievement. He started everything from zero. He got dropped from the school, and he doesn’t have any internet or any electricity like us at his time. He then even became more successful than many people in the present time. It was quite fascinating to learn and read about his story. All his experiences are used in the future. I would like to thank my English teacher, Miss Amy, for allowing me to do this project, I’ve learn many things from this book. From his life and his achievements, William became an inspiration to me.

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William's goals, dreams, and motives

William was actually just one ordinary boy, but he does have an extraordinary thinking that is different from the other people. As William grew up, he had a dream of being a scientist, a famous and a good one. He wanted to be a scientist because he wanted to learn more about the world. He also wanted to help his own people from suffering and his country to be developed. But it doesn't mean that he will be a scientist by just dreaming. William tried his best to reach the best school, he also tried his best to find out some knowledge by himself.
William's goals varies in many part. His goals are mainly about successfully help his people. But before that, he must've learn many things and try out many experiment to successfully built a windmill. Another of his goal should probably be about impressing his father and his classmates. It's obvious that everyone wanted their father to be proud. Just like William, he really love his parent and he wanted his father to find something interesting in him. He as a child also got insulted by most of his classmates, so his goal was also to change their minds.
William's people during his time was in a depression and lack hope. They got attacked by many disasters and now they left nothing, they don't even have electricity left. So William's main motive was to help this people by building up a windmill. He also have a motive of finding experiences and building amazing things. He wanted to know the work and use of many machines but he found the windmill most interesting. With his hard work, his responsibilities, and also his motivation, he finally met his goals and dreams. He finally made a creation of a big windmill that really help his people.

My Recording

http://www.mediafire.com/?t8t5dmnln85uijh
This is my recording when I summarize the story to Mr. Ein.