SETTING

Part B: Setting
1.Place: the geographical location of the story - a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.
The action takes place in the Eastern United States,John however was from a village. The story is mainly taken place both but more of outdoors.
2. Time: the period in history,the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
It took place many generations after a war that desolated civilization and left the cities in ruins.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class(lover, middle, or upper class)
Some of the descendants of the few survivors of the war live in a tribe in the countryside, many miles away from the Hudson River. Which they are known for the Hill people. They hunt for food and also make fabrics. One of them traveled to New York to explore the ruins which is John. The society there are mostly lover class but some are middle. 

PLOT

A.PLOT
1.What is the story about? What are the main events in the story and how are they related to each other?
"By the Waters of Babylon" is a short story centering on a young man from a post-apocalyptic society who goes forth from his village to learn and explore. The main events are when John left his dad on the journey, when he passed through the road of Death Places and from the fierce dogs to the Place of the Gods. They are related to each other in a way that its connected without one part u won't understand what the story is all about.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
The main events are arranged chronologically.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
The story is narrated by the person in the story itself, which is John the son of the priest in the story. There are no flashbacks or summaries used within the stories.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
The plot is a fast-paced plot.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
It moved the plots forward step by step showing where the character will go and how the story will be next.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral of 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 main character, John, struggles against his own fears(internal conflict) and against real or imagined outside threats(external conflict), such as a pack of wild dogs and the Hudson River. There are both physical and moral of emotional, they were resolved when he escaped them and when he came to know the real truth at the end. No it is more subtle and complex. 
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur?
Is the ending of story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
The climax occurred when John has a vision revealing the Place of the Gods which was actually New York City as it was just before, and during, the Great Building. The climax of the story occurred not far before the ending. The ending of the story was happy because John came to know that the Gods are just men and is just like him and then he went home happily. Yes it was fairly achieved

8. Dose the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant tot he total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?

The plot do have unity, each of the episodes of the story points to the answer which is the ending John had. Yes only some of the incident does.
9. What use does the story make of chance of coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
The made the chance of coincidence when it was the starting of where to go east, west, north, or south. And there were few things that happened referring John to travel east. The occurrences initiate the journey of John to the Place of the Gods. It was not at all improbable because it was surely to happen.

BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON

BY THE WATERS OF BABLYON
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

 

 

 



Reflection

Dragon’s Gate Reflection

        When a person like Ekachai Narula was assigned to read a book of 300 pages and do many task on it, to me it felt impossible. I have never been reading books at all. This project was successful after all because I focused on reading and not reading for fun. This reading gave me more than I taught; it gave me the knowledge to know more about the characters and the different settings in the story that gave me a vision of how things are like around the world.

          This project really made me super stress about it at first, but when I started reading it changed. This also taught me that reading is also fun if there is a fun story waiting for you in the book. This reading assignment will surely make me read more during my spare time instead of just sitting and doing nothing. Even though this assignment gave me a lot I still want to say that the time for finishing the book and sending the summaries were a bit too short for me. But thinking in a positive way I told myself that it will give you attention to the book and not make you lazy.

          So In conclusion to this reflection, I have no other person in this world to thank for giving such a wonderful project which is Miss Amy. Without her I believe I will still not be interested in books, but now I am more interested in books because of her especially. This reading assignment became my best assignment after reading such a magnificent book. Thank You Miss Amy for everything!!

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Otter's Dreams, Goals, And Motives

OTTER’S GOALS, DREAMS, AND MOTIVES

          As we look into the book Dragon’s Gate, we get to open our eyes to the main character which is the young boy Otter who was adopted to the Three Willows Village and thought to himself that he is just a stranger to the village.

          Otter believing to himself always that he was a stranger wanted to do something that will make the village knows him properly. His one single goal he had was from the speech that Uncle Foxfire had lectured. This is to go work in the Land of Golden Mountain and find the final way to get rid of the Manchu’s and British. This goal was left in his heart always after that speech.

          Accomplishing a goal is not an easy think; in fact it is really difficult to pass through the obstacles. Otter really passed through many of the obstacles before he could get to his path. In the Land of Golden Mountain he also had difficulty dealing with many people there and came to know the truth of his own Uncle Foxfire that he was not the legend as he was in Three Willows.

          Even though Otter was angry about what happened to him in the Land of Golden Mountain, the spirit that is in his heart gave him the perfect accomplishment at last with all the sorrows and anger that he had passed through.

          In conclusion, everyone has goals and dreams to something they really want to accomplish in their lives. And in this story Otter had done to show us all that if we give up is like we have no purpose to be living in this planet called Earth. We need to fight that’s what God had made us for. Otter’s goals have really showed me one spark that goals can’t come by us sitting and do nothing but will come to us if we put some effort to it.

Story Telling with Mr.Ian

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