Selasa, 17 April 2012

Analyze of "The standart of Living"


Dewi Musfirotul Azizah
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Characters
There are two (main) characters in the story, Annabel and Midge. Because the writer tells that both of them has a same characters, based on the quote:
1. Annabel and Midge : arrogant, greedy, selfish.
    
Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room with the arrogant slow gait of the leisured, for their Saturday afternoon stretched ahead of them.”
2. Sylvia: one of their officemate
     Once Annabel had introduced the game to Sylvia, another girl who worked in the office.”
3. A clerk: Patient, polite
The clerk bowed.”

Setting
Setting of place
1.       Tea room:Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room . . .
2.       Home:Each girl lived at home with her family . . .
3.       Office : Annabel and Midge did, and completely, all that young office workers . . .
4.       Shop: Together they went over to the shop window and stood pressed against it.
5.       Store : “Why, a store like this wouldn’t even be open this afternoon,” Midge said.
Setting of time
1.       Afternoon : “Why, a store like this wouldn’t even be open this afternoon,” Midge said.
2.       Saturday afternoon : Annabel and Midge came out of the tea room with the arrogant slow gait of the leisured at Saturday afternoon.
3.       Noon : They lunched together every noon.
Setting of condition
1.       Happy : “They were happy”
2.       Hot wind : . . . “as they walked across to Fifth Avenue with their skirts swirled by the hot wind.”

Point of View:
The writer use the third person as the point of view, because the author is not told as character who involved in the story.

Plot
1.       Beginning of the story : telling about the characteristics of the subject in the story.
They are Annabel and Midge.
2.       Rising Action : The raising action beginning from Annabel and Midge followed a game.
3.       Climax : It happened when Midge played with seriousness not only proper but extreme. The first thing that she should do was buying the silver-fox coat, but she had a problem because Annabel thought that buy it just common. So Midge tried to buy something more then it.
4.       Falling action : It is beginning when they are changing their mind about buy a coat to be a pearl, but they can not buy that.
5.       Resolution there is no resolution here because the writer use opened plot. Where the reader can conclude the end of the story by themselves.

Conflict
1.       Person Vs self: they have conflict with themselves, because they are unsatisfied with their live.

Conclusions
In this story the writer tells about two women that not satisfied with themselves. They are acting as a rich people, ignorant people acting as educated people. Here the writer tells that are people are shallow, greedy, selfish, generally immoral creatures and how materialistic they are .

Prose Assigment


Analyze of short story "The First Confession"

Groups:

1. Oktaviani Ika Amalia
2. Dewi Musfirotul Azizah
3. Aprilia Ariyanti
4. Shilvia Nur Qomariya
5. Kasista Kistiati

Setting of time in the Story “First Confession” By Frank O’Connor

1. Every Friday
2. When mother was at work
3. Every day to school at three
4. At the end of the elsson
5. Another day
6. When the priest looked round
7. The day the whole class went
8. But at three o’clock
9. On Saturday and be at the chapel
10. When she ha manoeuvred me down the long flight of steps to the chapel yard
11. Die in the night
12. It was my turn now
13. I can’t leave you out of my sight for a minute
14. Before I could even get to my feet to defend my self she bent down and gave me a clip across the ear
15. I don’t know will I get rid of you at all today
16. When I had time to think
17. After seven years would have more to tell than people that went every week
18. The next time, the priest steered me into the confession box
19.”Well, now,” he said,
20. After the shadow of the church
Setting of places:
1.       Ireland
2.       House
3.       Dinner time
4.       Restaurant
5.       Going home
6.       In the yard outside
7.       His bed
8.       Hospital
9.       Bishop
10.   Paradise
11.   Valley of the river
12.   Church
13.   Hell
14.   Beach
15.   Road
16.   Chapel yard

PLOT

The plot is chronological order.
Complement of plot:
1.       Exposition: the story is beginning from the Jacky’s grandpa died and his grandma came to live with his family.
2.       Raising act: when Jacky’s grandma cooked for dinner, Jacky didn’t touch it, and his sister Nora tried to make him. But he hid under table and took the bread knife for protection. From what he did, their family asked him to make his first confession. The teacher who will be teaching him before first confession is Mrs. Ryan but he didn’t like her.
3.       Climax: The way of Mrs. Ryan teaching made Jacky afraid of doing his first confession. He preferred to avoid it. Because he was afraid if he did his confession he will came to the hell, like what Mrs. Ryan said to him.
4.       Falling Act: When Jacky met the priest, he changed his mind about his first confession. The priest told him that first confession did not terrify like Mrs. Ryan said.
5.       Resolution: Jacky came to the church and made his first confession with the priest. And Nora accompanied him to make his first confession.
Elements of Plot
1.       Foreshadowing: “When Mother was at work and my grand mother made the dinner I wouldn’t touch it. Nora once tried to make me, but I hid under table from her an took the bread knife with me for protection.”
Basic Conflict
1.       Person VS Person
This story is closed plot; because the writer is give the resolution. Ending of this story is happy ending.


Characterization


1.       Jacky: He is naughty boy, difficult to receive the suggestion from old parent and he need attention from his family.
“. . . . . I don’t want to go to confession at all.”
2.       Nora:s0metime she is go0d pers0n and bad pers0n(round character)
“ Nora suddenly changed her tone. She became the raging malicious devil she really was.”
3.       M0m:patient
4.       Dad:quite pers0n
5.       Grandm0m:old w0man,impatient, discriminate.
6.       Mrs ryan:always tell scary st0ry to tightening the children.
7.       Pries: kind pers0n, give the lightness to jacky about religi0n.