Question

Which event in the story would you identify as the climax? Explain your reasoning?

Answer 1

Climax. The principal tells Martha that she must pay $15 if she wanted to receive the jacket. A disappointed Martha asks her Grandfather for the money, but he refuses to. He says that if she payed the $15, it wouldn't be scholarship jacket anymore. Inciting Incident: Teachers were discriminating against Marta, and debating giving the Scholarship Jacket to a white girl with a powerful father, even though Marta earned it. Climax: Marta tells principal she won't pay for the jacket because of what her grandfather said. At the sound of this the principal reconsiders and gives her the jacket for free she feels extremely happy and overjoyed. In the book "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas, I think that the theme is truth. During the book, there are various situation where truth is involved or provoked.
Ans. Marta expected that she would win the scholarship jacket that year because she was fourteen years old and was in eighth grade. She had been a straight at student since her first grade. This was the reason that she was expecting to win her school scholarship jacket. The Scholarship Jacket” is one of the best-known stories by Mexican-American author Marta Salinas. It describes a difficult situation that Martha, a Mexican-American girl from Texas, is faced with after she earns excellent grades in school. ... This one, the scholarship jacket, was our only chance. the short story 'The Scholarship Jacket' Marta Salinas uses a first-person point of view. In the story Martha is the narrator and a character in the story. She tells the story to the readers as when you listen to a friend talk. The conflict is that Martha wants to get the Scholarship Jacket because she has gotten straight A's for as long as she could remember. However, the principal of the school says that she has to pay $15 to get the jacket or he will give the jacket to the runner up in the competition. Why is the jacket so important to her? Marta expects to receive the jacket because she has the highest grades in school. The jacket is important because Marta has worked hard for it. ... Boone are arguing about who should receive the scholarship jacket.