A: The story is about a family with 3 kids and a mother, Barney, Jane, Lalla. The father died in the car accident. So this family moved to Cornwell. Then they meet Roystons (their neighbor). The Roystons family had a cousin that visited very often Godfrey, Lalla became good friends with Godfrey and wrote I letters. The others were David and Paul. The main event was when Lalla met Rosemary's (a friend from London) brother, Alan. They met an talked. After Lalla finishes her O levels, she wanted to move to London to live with Alan and Rosemary. This story is related on how the characters meet and how their personality are the same and some ate unique.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
A: The story are arranged in chronologically. Sometimes the story is fast-forward to about a month. But most of it is in chronological order.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
A: In this story, some part of the story, the narrator used flashbacks. Flashbacks are used when Jane thinks about the time when they are in London. Most parts of the story is in chronological order.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
A: The plot is slow-paced. That's because the story goes step by step. The plot doesn't usually skip the parts. The plot was explained and arranged order. It doesn't go fast.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
A: The decision that Lalla made about going back to London to be a model and a magazine editor, it changes that plot and change the way the things in Cornwell are usually are.
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?
A: The conflict is when Lalla wants to go back to London with Rosemary and Alan to work and lived there. After she worked there, she became a magazine editor and a model. She is also engaged with Alan. Her family knows that it is not what Lalla wants. But then she is attached to fame and money. The conflict is some kind of moral and emotional. When the days are near to the day that Lalla is going to marry, she realize that all that she is doing is not what she wanted. After she realize it, she cleared up with Alan and Rosemary and return back to Cornwell to stay with her family and Godfrey. The story's conflict is not about good or evil. But it is about how people think and about what they want which they don't realize it because of attractive things like fame and money.
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?
A: The climax in this story is when Lalla decide to go to London and when she decide what is the right thing for her. When Lalla go to London and became famous, it is just what attracts her. But then at last she realize on what she really wants. The story ends happily.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
A: There is just one meaning to this story. It is that the best thing in life can be found at home. All the episode are smooth does go smoothly together. There is no plot twist. The little twist in the story is when Lalla liked Alan and when she realize that the things that she wants is at home.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are those occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story.? How improbable are they?
A: The ending of this story, it is not all by chance. But then it is ending ended by Lalla realize about how she really feels and wants. The ending is so intense because we don't know that what Lalla is going to decide. But still the ending ended that Lalla comes back to Cornwell and stayed with her family and Godfrey.
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