1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?
Sometimes grim, but mostly nostalgic.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening?
The story is both tragic and frightening but sometimes humorous.
3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator?
The author's attitude towards the characters and the narrator is somewhat trusting.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Symbolism Questionnaires
1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
The war posters represent captivity, the rolling hills of Canada represent freedom, and the lake represents the obstacle between freedom and captvitiy.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning?
The war posters. They represent captivity since they want to take freedom away.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story?
Tim O' Brien acts as a symbol. He represents those who want to look for freedom and liberty. The grandpa in the story represents something like a harbinger.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
Well not quite.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
Well, the symbols quite change throughout the story.
The war posters represent captivity, the rolling hills of Canada represent freedom, and the lake represents the obstacle between freedom and captvitiy.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning?
The war posters. They represent captivity since they want to take freedom away.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story?
Tim O' Brien acts as a symbol. He represents those who want to look for freedom and liberty. The grandpa in the story represents something like a harbinger.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
Well not quite.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
Well, the symbols quite change throughout the story.
Imagery Questionnaires
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
The part where the main character describes the war posters during the Vietnam War and the part where he describes the border between America and Canada.
2. Did a particular image make youy feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
The image that described the rolling hills on the Canadian side made me feel happy since it had reminded me the days where I lived in Switzerland.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to?
To sight and feeling. The author probably wants us to feel nostalgic I guess.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
The reactions contribute by making us feel more at home, like the hills are right infront of our eyes.
The part where the main character describes the war posters during the Vietnam War and the part where he describes the border between America and Canada.
2. Did a particular image make youy feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
The image that described the rolling hills on the Canadian side made me feel happy since it had reminded me the days where I lived in Switzerland.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to?
To sight and feeling. The author probably wants us to feel nostalgic I guess.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
The reactions contribute by making us feel more at home, like the hills are right infront of our eyes.
Point of View Questionnaires
1. What point of view does the story use?
A mix of first person and third person, but more on the first person.
2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view?
Well, the first person view makes things more thrilling and exciting.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable?
Truth is, the narrator is quite reliable.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal?
Well, the author uses to mostly reveal.
A mix of first person and third person, but more on the first person.
2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view?
Well, the first person view makes things more thrilling and exciting.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable?
Truth is, the narrator is quite reliable.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal?
Well, the author uses to mostly reveal.
Characters Questionnaires
1.. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
The main character is the author himself, Tim O' Brien. He is a goodluck young white American man.
2. Describe the character's situation.
The main character lives in America with a family (parents). He is currently trying to make a run for the border to escape being drafted by the military.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics of the character?
Ambition, honesty, and diligence.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing?
He is in a life and death situation: if he gets drafted then he'll likely die in Vietnam. But if he escapes to Canada, then he'll have a family and a new life.
5. Is any character the developing character?
Tim O' Brien is a developing character with a bit of this and a bit of that changes.
The main character is the author himself, Tim O' Brien. He is a goodluck young white American man.
2. Describe the character's situation.
The main character lives in America with a family (parents). He is currently trying to make a run for the border to escape being drafted by the military.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics of the character?
Ambition, honesty, and diligence.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing?
He is in a life and death situation: if he gets drafted then he'll likely die in Vietnam. But if he escapes to Canada, then he'll have a family and a new life.
5. Is any character the developing character?
Tim O' Brien is a developing character with a bit of this and a bit of that changes.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Setting Questionnaires
1) The place where the story took place.
Somewhere near the US - Canadian border.
2) The time when the story took place.
The story happened in the year of 1968, the time of the Vietnam war.
3) The social environment of the story.
Middle class people (who were drafted into the war).
Somewhere near the US - Canadian border.
2) The time when the story took place.
The story happened in the year of 1968, the time of the Vietnam war.
3) The social environment of the story.
Middle class people (who were drafted into the war).
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Plot Questionnaires
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 a guy who is trying his best to escape drafting by the millitary by escaping to Canada.
2) Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Chronologically.
3) How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
The story was narrated in first person. There were a few flashbacks in the story too.
4) Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Sometimes it's fast paced and sometimes it's slow paced.
5) How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
It moves the plot forward because the guy who is trying to escape is in a life-and-death situation.
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 conflicts in the plot is where he was almost captured. But he escaped in the end.
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 ending was qutie happy.
8) Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each ncident grow logically out of the preceeding incident and lead naturally to the next?
The plot have unity.
The story is about a guy who is trying his best to escape drafting by the millitary by escaping to Canada.
2) Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Chronologically.
3) How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
The story was narrated in first person. There were a few flashbacks in the story too.
4) Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Sometimes it's fast paced and sometimes it's slow paced.
5) How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
It moves the plot forward because the guy who is trying to escape is in a life-and-death situation.
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 conflicts in the plot is where he was almost captured. But he escaped in the end.
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 ending was qutie happy.
8) Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each ncident grow logically out of the preceeding incident and lead naturally to the next?
The plot have unity.
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