Please click the link below to go to the audio version of Act 1 of the play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1ve48aPq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1ve48aPq0
![]() |
Elements of a Story
Plot:
The sequence of events that happen in a story. The plot usually happens in the order of: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement.
Setting:
Where and when the story takes place. The setting is the geographic location of the story. When a character walks from one part of a neighborhood to the other, the scene changes, but the setting always stays the same.
Characters:
The people, animals, or creatures in the story.
Protagonist:
One character who is central to the story and all the major events in the story.
Antagonist:
The character who opposes, or goes against the main character or protagonist. The antagonist tries to prevent the main character (protagonist) from succeeding or being happy.
Conflict:
Conflict is a problem that happens in the story. Usually, the conflict happens toward the beginning of the story, at the beginning of the Rising Action. There are different types of conflicts: (1) Person versus Person (2) Person versus Self (3) Person versus Nature (4) Person versus Society (5) Person versus Circumstance
Theme:
The message that is in the story. Common themes are love, friendship, loyalty, faith, hope, forgiveness, sacrifice, honor, justice, truth, freedom. |
Quiet and the night came early and Leonard sat there feeling a flicker of restlessness. He needed his books, a radio perhaps, he wasn't sure why he had been delaying going into Kingston to fetch his things. The pattern he had established of working on the house had completely absorbed him, but, he thought, stretching lazily, it was time to make the trip into town. He would go there the next day, get it over with. If he went like that, mid-week, there would be nobody there. He could simply pick up his two boxes and leave the key with the next-door neighbour. He would not have to face his parents and their angry comments, the small guilt-making jabs, 'after all they had done', giving up his job, 'such good prospects', to hide himself away 'in the depths of beyond', as they put it. And, of course, he could not explain. He could not say that the prospect of working to buy things did not interest him, of drifting into a marriage, much like theirs, did not interest him. It was all sound, solid, and it frightened him, the years stretching ahead, known even before they had happened. He wanted to make something very simple, very different, for himself. He could not explain because they were so proud of having lived out Grandma Miriam's dream, to be educated, professionals, a far remove from Grandpa Sam, travelling in on the country bus with his country talk and his bag of yams.
|
Growing pains | |
My child-eyes cried for chocolate treats And sticky sweets 'Twill rot yu' teet'! | |
Tinkly silver wrapper hides | |
5 | Germs Worms Decay How can a child-eye see? |
This child-heart cried for mid-teen love | |
10 | A blow, a shove Study yuh' book! Leather jacket Football boots Are not the most sought-after truths |
15 | How can a child-heart know? So watch the young-girl-heart take wing! Watch her groove And watch her swing She's old enough |
20 | She's strong and tough She'll see beneath the silver wrapper Beneath the flashy football boots She'll find the great sought-after truth That child-eye tears are not as sad |
25 | And child-heart pain is not as bad As grown-up tears and grown-up pain Oh Christ, what do we have to gain From growing up For throwing up |
30 |
Our childlike ways
For dim Disastrous Grown-up days.
ANITA
|
We are kickstarting out CSEC English A and B Exam countdown . I wanted to start by reviewing the layout of the English A and B Exam; so tha...