2009 DEC holiday HW

Story: Evening Under Frangipani
Conflicts
· Internal conflicts :Prakash is having intense fear about the interview and showing physical sighs ( pg 47,first paragraph)
· External conflicts :Elaine is talking a issue of marriage that imposed by the society (pg49, last paragraph)
· Internal conflict: Elaine cursed about her foolishness and also Prakash
(pg 58,first paragraph)

Climax
· When Prakesh jokes about Elaine’s father (pg 62 to pg 63)
Resolution
· Open Ending

Characters
1)Prakash
He is a nervous-wreck (during job interview , pg 47)

He is competent (pg 48-49)
2)Elaine
She is a feminist (pg49-50)

She is caring (pg 53)
3)Elaine’s father
He care more about his collection of insect rather than his own family (pg 55)

He is passionate about insects (pg 55)

The most interesting segment is when Prakesh goes for first interview at the starting of the story. Prakesh start to feel uncomfortable on the other side of the desk. Prakash was sure that his sweat would leave a W-shaped mark, however momentary. on the plastic chair. A ‘W’ that would spell ‘washout’, another rejection. He knew that his armpits were circled in sweat glands. He tried to appear attentive, to master his feelings and seem the right man for the job.

Story: Lee
Conflicts
· External Conflict: Lee and her father argue about her walkman matter (pg 87,line 10 to line 14)

· Internal Conflict :Lee asked her father why he never wrote (pg 91,line 1)

· External conflict between lee and her father (pg 91, line 7 to line 15)

Climax
· When Lee’s father found lee and Holden Mankiewicz in his bedroom (pg 103)
Resolution
· Complete resolution

Characters
1)Lee
She likes music a lot ( listens to music wherever she goes (pg 87,line 10 to line 12)

She is a sarcastic person the way she talks to he father (pg 87, first paragraph)

She also a healthy person (pg 91,last second paragraph)

She also quite a rude person (Pg 90, line 17 )

2)Lee’s father
He got jealous easily when Lee talked about piscopo, (pg88,last paragraph)

· He does not like to pay attention (pg 98,line12)


3)Alan
He didn’t feel up to the responsibilities of fatherhood (pg 89,line 7)

· He dresses like a trucker(pg 89,second paragraph)

He sometimes get a bit of a pretentious creep(pg 89,second paragraph, last line)

The most interesting segment is when Lee visited her grandmother during the family reunion. Her grandmother was very happy to see her and Lee talked about everything she does in her country. This tell that how different is Lee and the Singaporeans as she live in other country when she was young.

Story: A History of Tea

Conflicts
· Internal conflict: about Beverly going to China. (pg 112,last second paragraph)




Climax
· The climax began when Beverly say that she was going around Asia(pg 113,first paragraph)
Resolution
· The resolution of the story is a revelation



Characters
1) Beverly
· She is a person that like tea too.(pg 108)

· She is a fussy person too(pg109)
2) Tien Yee
· He a casual person, dress simple not like Beverly(pg 109)

· He a calm person judging the way he tell Beverly the story( pg110,last paragraph)
3)Grandmother
· She is traditional person. (pg 115)

· She also an religious person as Beverly’s grandfather meet her grandmother at the church. (pg 116 ,last paragraph)




The most interesting segment is when Beverly talks about her boyfriend and her parents disapprove of her relationship with him.

Story: Release

Conflicts
· External conflict :Between Eileen and her new neighbour (pg 139, last paragraph )
· External conflict :Between Eileen and her husband (pg 140, last few lines to pg 141, first paragraph)

· External conflict: Between Eileen and her neighbour (pg 141,line 15 to line 23)

Climax
· It is when the puppies started whining and whimper in the night (pg 143,last line)
Resolution
· Ironic resolution

Characters
1)Eileen
She is friendly person ( pg 139, first paragraph )

· She is also forgetful person (pg 141, line 1 to line 9)

· She also a persistent person (pg 143 ,line 1 to line 13 )

2)Philip
He listen to his wife (pg 142,line 1 to line 6)

He finds work more important than his gardens matters (pg 145, line 7 to line 12)

3)Neighbours
(Wife and husband)
She is a impatient person (pg 139,line 18)

· She also very rude person the way she speak about Eileen (pg 139, line 19 to line 21)

She and her husband talk rude word to Eileen, (the wife, pg 140 ) and (her husband, pg 142)


The most interesting segment is when Eileen told the man to move the kennel to another side. So that she and her baby can finally get some sleep but the man mistaken what she said and killed the puppies with the spanner. Eileen was shocked and her heart froze.

Story: An Obituary for Fifth Aunt Come Late

Conflicts
· External conflict: Aunt and her mother quarrelling about the issue of using sugar.(pg 152.last paragraph)




Climax
· The climax is when the war is started. Everything start to change since then.(pg 156)
Resolution
· The resolution in this story is complete. At the end, she died peacefully. All the issues and conflict is resolved.


Characters
1) Aunt
· She is quite a hardworking person. She do all the things at her mother house.(pg149,first paragraph)

· She is also a clumsy person. She walks slowly, move slowly from one thing to another or spot to spot. (pg149,first paragraph)


2) Aunt’s Parents
· Aunt’s parents biased on their son only, they always neglected their daughters like their daughters are invisible.(pg 151)

· They also quite a bad people in the way how they talk to their own daughter when she needs some sugar for her medicine to treat her cough.(pg 152,last paragraph)

3)Dressmaker
· She is quite an attentive person. She take care of her customers by letting them to sit comfortably under the ceiling fan in front of the shop.

The most interesting segment is when the starting of the story. when Aunt start her life in her mother house by doing the all the things there, for example housework. All her life goes on, we can see that how her family ignore her at home, how they treat her until the day she die.

Story: Pastime

Conflicts
· The Internal conflict: the man with a limp in Tai Poh’s story, he has a mental struggle over a certain issue. (pg213,last paragraph)



Climax
· The climax is when Mr Lee start his own story and tell Tai Poh about it.(ph 216,last paragraph)
Resolution
· The revelation

Characters
1)Tai Poh
· From the starting of the Pastime, it show that Tai Poh is quite a creative person as he make up stories of people with his own ideas.(pg 212)

· He an observant person. He observes carefully at the people around him before he considered who to pick on for his story. (pg 212 ,third paragraph)

· He also an helpful person .He help and look out for his friends when they need help.(217,last second paragraph)
2)Mr Lee
· He is a attentive person as he listen to Tai Poh’s story quietly (Pg 213 to 216)

· He also like Tai Poh, he is an creative person as he also creates stories by himself .pg 217)
3)The man that is in Tai Poh’s story
· He is an ambitious person who have full of dreams. (pg 213.line 10)
· He also a strong-minded person. Once something is lock on. no one can change his mind.(pg 213 to 214)


The most interesting segment is when Mr Lee says his own stories after listening to Tai Poh’s story. And the stories he says are quite similar to Tai Poh’s stories. This makes feel more interesting to continue reading the story.