Assignment for Tuesday

Questions p. 6

1. The North Wind and the Sun are both competitive. The North Wind is forceful and aggressive and the Sun's personality is persuasive.
2. The North Wind's method was ineffective because he force cold wind onto the human which caused the human to wrap his cloak around him even tighter.
3. The Sun was successful because he persuaded the human by using heat to warm him up which made him take off his cloak. The Sun used persuasion instead unlike the North Wind who used force in his attempt.
4. The person's purpose in the dispute is to show the truth, that persuasion is better than force.
5. Persuasion is better than force- The North Wind's method did not work because he tried to force the human to take off his cloak. The Sun's method worked because he persuaded the human into believing that taking off his cloak was the right thing to do because the Sun made him warm.

Questions p. 8

1. The part of the story that is the exposition is when Chuang Tzu tells the two assistants about the sacred tortoise being locked up in the prince's ancestral shrine. Chuang Tzu uses three sentences to set up the dramatic situation.
2. He changes the subject and mentions the sacred tortoise to show that he does not want to be locked up and told what to do, instead he would rather be free and on his own. He does not answer the question directly and immediately to make the assistance realize and to prove his reason why he does not want to assist the prince. Chuang Tzu's purpose to asking the officials the question to which he already knows the answer, is to make them agree with him with out them realizing it.
3. The story tells us about the protagonist personality of Chuang Tzu, that he lives by his own rules and does not want to be held captive by assisting the king, instead he wants to be free.

Questions p. 19

1. The details about the supermarket are particularly true to live, also there is always the leader of the click, which is also true to real life. The close attention to details contributes to the story by painting a picture and a vision for us. Also by describing the girls and how they dressed shows u7s why Lengel wanted them to leave the store.
2. Sammy is the main character of the story. He is the narrator and the story is told from his point of view. I believe he is less of a hero because he just wanted the girls to notice him, a real hero would not have cared if they had noticed. The details of him and his thoughts were more portrayed in the story, than the doctor in "Godfather Death."
3. The first two paragraphs were the exposition of the story. It explains Sammy's job and describes the three girls in bathing suits. The carefully detailed portrait of the "Queenie," shows that she is the leader and the other two girls look up to her and do whatever she tells them to do.
4. At the beginning of the story when he is describing them, it is if he is making fun of them. Then as the story goes along and the girls asked the meat man where something was, he stated that he felt sorry for the girls. By the end of the story he wanted to stand up for them and be their hero.
5. Between the check-outs and the Special bins is where the conflict becomes apparent. The crisis happens when Lengel tells the girls that they are not at the beach and that they need to leave. The climax happens when Sammy says he quits because Lengel embarrassed the girls.
6. Sammy quits his job because he says that Lengel embarrassed the girls and also he feels like he has to go through with it.
7. Sammy shows a gesture of sympathy for the girls when they asked the meat man, McMahon, where something was, and after they left he was sizing up their joints, which made Sammy feel sorry for the girls because they could not help it.
8. The conclusion of the story is that he quits his job for nothing. When Sammy acknowledges, "how hard the world was going to be...hereafter," means that you can not always give up or quit on something just because you do not like it, because nothing good will come of it.
9. The comment about how dynamite could go off in the "A&P" store and nobody would realize it, they would just keep shopping. This shows that no one pays attention to anyone else, they are just paying attention to getting all of their groceries.