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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Stories. ]
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Date: 06/94 # of Words:1,150 School:Public - COED State:NY
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Here are a bunch of stories in summary:
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Title: "The Boar Hunt"
Author: Jose Vasconcelos
Setting: near a peruvian river, part of the Amazon jungle
Characters: four companions known as the Columbian, the peruvian, the
Mexican and the Ecuadorian are the hunters.
Plot: Four men are on a major hunt for boars. While swaying in their
hamocks between trees, they hear a noise in the thicket from which
emerges a great number of boars. The men begin their kill. As the
wild pigs continue to gather, the men's ammunition dwindles. The pigs
begin to slash at the trunks of the trees to which the hammocks are
attached. The seemingly intelligent assault on hte trees continues
throught the nught as the men watch in horror. Realising his imminent
death, the narrator uses his hammock, like a swinging vine, to gain
access to trees for safety. Hearing the trees collapsing and the
dying screams of his companions, the narrator is aware of his narrow
escape from death and so has a dramatic change of attitude towares
the hunt.
Conflict: man vs. himself
man vs. nature
Theme: Whenever man tampers with nature, the consequences of this action
can be fatal or painful to himself.
Title: "FOrgiveness in Families"
Author: Alice Munro
Setting: Action occuring over a period of time.
Characters: Val; he narrator who is finding it difficult to
understand her brother's actions.
Cameron; (Cam), the brother who is irresonsible and aimless.
Mother; who is accepting of her son Cam's actions.
Plot: Val narrates about her family as an introduction for telling of the
time her mother became very sick and her brother Cam, a food for
nothing by the narrator's perspective, visited the hospital with his
"co-priests" and "worked a miracle" upon his mother. His mother does
recover.
Conflict: man vs. himself
man vs. man
Theme: Growth in self-awareness can effect an understanding on an
improvement in family relationships.
Title: "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Author: Roald Dahl
Setting: The Maloney household located in a large city-action
occuringn within a day.
Characters: Mary Maloney - pregnant wife of patrick
Patrick Maloney- - husband
Sgt. Moonan - detective
Plot: Mary Maloney is a content housewife whose whole life centers around
her husband. He arrives home one evening and tells her the he is
leaving her. In shock, she begins to prepare a leg of lamb for
dinner. When her husband tells her not to bother, she hits him over
the head with the frozen leg of lamb. She proceeds to cook the meat
and serve it to the detectives who come to investigate her husband's
death.
Conflict: man vs. man
Theme: Things aren't always what they appear to be.
Title: "Through the Tunnel"
Author: Doris Lessing
Setting: at the shore, covering a week's vacation in southern France.
Characters: Jerry - a determined, proud eleven year old.
Mother - who is determined to be a good mother,
because she is a widow.
Plot: A boy, Jerry, goes to the beach with his mother everyday. At the bay,
after meeting native boys, who swim through an underwater tunnel,
Jerry practices holding his breath so that he can accomplish his
goal.
Conflict: Man vs. himself
Man vs. nature
Theme: Part of growing up is providing one can accomplish
something which might be daring or reckless.
Title: "Shaving"
Author: Leslie Norris
Setting: Springtime, occuring within a day in the sanford
household.
Characters: Barry- a seventeen year old who wants to be a goodson.
Father, who is terminally ill.
Plot: The story is told by Barry's point of view. The dying father feels
unclean, because he is unshaven. He feels foo physicalls and
psychologically when Barry shaves him.
Conflict: man vs. himself
Theme: With maturity comes resposibility, especially when a
traumatic circumstance causes roles to be reversed.
Title: "The Interlopers"
Author: Saki
Setting: In a forest in the Carpethian mountains in Eastern Europe. The
land is steeply sloped and tangles with underbrush. It is the winter
night and storm winds are blowing.
Characters: Ulrich von Gradwitz - landowner
Georg Znaeym - trespasser
Plot: An old feud between the families of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg
Znaeym seems certain to end in death as the two men stalk each other
within the disputed forest. They come face to face, but before either
man can attack, a falling tree pins them both to the ground. In their
mutual pain and helplessness, the consider thier quarrel and decide
to make peace with each other. They welcome the sounds of an
approaching group, only to discover that they have attracted a pack
of wolves.
Conflict: man vs. man
man vs. himself
man vs. nature
Theme: Sometimes a step towares friendship comes too late to be of any
consequence.
Poetry Section
Title: "Cooney Potter"
Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Theme: We work ourselves to deat forsaking our family in our pursuit to get
ahead materially.
MOod: Regret, introspective
Irony of situation: Irony is presented in the overall portrait of Cooney
Potter striving to better himself and yet failing to enjoy his life for
he died before the age of 60.
Title: Harlem
Author: Langston Hughes
Theme: You can't repress aspirations without it leading to violence.
Mood: Bitter, angry, frustrated over the plight of the black man.
Paradox: A seemingly self-contradictory statement that is true.
Title: "The man who spilled light"
Author: David Wanoner
Theme: People are fearful of the truth.
Mood: serious
Tone: Ironic
Figurative language: "Scraped up the light"
"Clouds folded inside out"
"Light tied in knots"
Summary: Light (truth) is brought into the lives of the dark. Instead of
being happy, they appear to prefer being in the dark.
Title: "The Road not Taken"
Author: Robert Frost
Theme: Life is a series of choices and when we are presented with the
choices, we select that which we feel is the best for us at that time.
Figurative Language:
Symbolism:
"The two roads represent two courses
in life which the speaker must decide
upon."
Summary: Literally, the poet describes making a decision about which of the
two roads to take. Metaphorically, he describes making a major decision
about his life.
Title: "Those Winter Sundays"
Author: Robert Hayden
Theme: In retrospect, we appriciate the significance of small acts.
Mood: Thoughtful
Figurative language: Metaphor:
"I'd wake and hear the coald splintering, breaking"
"Blue black cold"
Title: Walter Simmons
Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Theme: Sometimes others expect too mcuh of you.
Mood: Introspective
Alliteration: The repetition of similar or identical sounds at
the beginnig of words
"Watched and Waited"
Title: "The Zoo"
Author: Stevie Smith
Theme: Caging animals doesn't comply with the laws of nature.
Mood: Sad
Tone: Angry
Figurative Language: Ruby rage, water dusty London town.
Summary: A little boy at the zoo is told that the caged lion doesn't like
him because he can't eat him. The lion is sad, because he is not
free.