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8_murik_8 [283]
3 years ago
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PLEASE HELP ASAP!!! : )

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Wewaii [24]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

 

Title of short story or novel ____the youngue delany ____________

Author ____you_______

Describe the setting of your novel or short story.

The setting of my story is in an urban area  and the current situation where life is fast-passing and constantly changes  where the character often feels that life is ahead of them

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

“Poverty is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women." (page #5) Delany's childhood is described as a time of great deprivation, but of good humor and adventure as well. Despite constant poverty, a criminally irresponsible father, and the death of her mother, Delany is a loving sister who retains her sense of humor. Delany must sacrifice her standards of dignity and class in order to provide for her sisters. Still, she never lowers her expectations for her family—she raises them to be well-behaved, conscientious, kind,and hardworking”.  

 

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed? The conflict of the story is that a young 16 year-old-girl was dealing with poverty ,despite her father’s hostility to some of her decisions,delany is simply struggling to cope under painful and difficult circumstances You have never been a good father to us" (page #3)The story portrays conflict with others. The author (you) makes it clear that Delany's first priority is her sisters' welfare.

Describe the antagonist from your novel or short story.

Delany's father strives to reach beyond the limitations forced upon him by poverty. He becomes determined to achieve success in life and to provide for his family and, indeed, he is relieved to leave school at age fourteen in order to get a job. Though he does not explicitly acknowledge it, Delany's father is burdened by the necessity of acting as a father figure for his family. He starts to suffer from an overwhelming sense of guilt. "The burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own." (page #7) He worries that by sinning he has doomed himself and the people he loves. He channels the disappointments of his difficult life into self-recrimination. He escapes his fears and guilt by reading, watching movies, listening to the radio, and daydreaming”.

 

 

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe an important piece of the backstory from your novel or short story.

The backstory consists of delaney's father's childhood.the author (you) writes his memoir in the present tense from the perspective of a young boy. The memoir often distances Delany's father, the young boy who simply wanted to have family, to a man who lost his wife and whose guilt and disappointment causes him to distance himself from his daughters. "I was never meant to carry this burden, I still think about her, I do." (page #10)

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe an early development in the plot and explain why it is important.

Delany increasingly condemns his father's irresponsibility but worries also about the morality of her own behavior and her sisters; she determines to make a success of herself. "Delany grows determined to prove that he can succeed and earn people's respect". (page #9)The author (you) also withholds the information that Delany's mother has died until the later part of the story and that her mother's death was the cause of her father's actions.  

spayn [35]3 years ago
6 0
<span>1. Who is the protagonist of your novel or short story? Describe the protagonist.
The character's name is August Pullman. He lives in Manhatton, NY. He struggles with Treacher Collins' syndrome, and has been homeschooled his whole life. Now it is time for him to start 5th grade and he has been enrolled in a public school for the first time.

2. Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
"</span>I know I'm not an ordinary 10 year old kid. [...] I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go."  "My name is August, by the way. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse" Next week I start fifth grade. Since I’ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified." 

<span>3. Who is the antagonist of your novel or short story? Describe the antagonist.
Julian. He is a passive aggressive bully, determined to make August's year horrible.

4. Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. (Can't find this, sorry.)


5. Describe the main conflict in your novel or short story.
It revolves around August trying to get through his 5th grade year in public school.


6. Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you described?
</span>Character v. Society, & Character v. Character.
August v. The School, and people's opinions of him, but also August v. Julian 
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