Homework pages 6,8,19 due 9/8

Page 6
1. The wind does not think. The wind just uses brute force to try to get what it wants. The wind seems to be hard headed. The sun is smarter and more cunning. The sun seemed like it had a more calculated plan.
2. The North Wind just tried to use its brute force and strength, not thinking that if the wind just constantly blew hard the man would of course clutch the jacket even harder. If the Wind would have blown harder at different times, pausing for a few minutes between each, then the wind might ave been able to blow the cloak off.
3. The sun was successful because he thought about his plan and did not just use all of its might and force at once, instead gradually making it hotter and hotter so the man would take off the cloak.
4. The human serves as the test subject to see which is smarter and/or stronger, the Sun or the North Wind.
5. The sun was more persuasive becuase it gradually warmed the man to the point of wanting to remove the cloak as opposed to the wind who just blew and used as much force as it could at once.
Page 8
1.The exposition is the first 4 sentences of the story. He uses 2 sentences to set up the dramatic situation.
2. He changes the subject because he is setting up for what he is going to say at the end. He does not answer it directly because he wants to answer it in a way that will have more of an impact in the 2 interviewers. He asks them a question because he wants them to really get the point that he does not want to be bothered.
3. That Chang Tzu is very smart and carefully chooses his words.
Page 19
1. The details of the store and how everything in it is arranged and also how he observes how people walk and act. It gives one a sense of being able to be in this grocery store.
2. He does not really fully describe Sammy. He shows admirable and foolish traits by quitting. He is admirable because he is trying to do something to prove a point, but foolish to me because he is also trying to get the girls' attention and fails. He should not have done something so bold as to quit. His character is shown more than the doctor's.
3. The expostiton starts with the first paragraph and lasts for several after that while the author Sammy goes on to describe the girls and the store as well as other people in the store. It is important because it forshadows how she is going to react in the end and also helps the story seem like its more from actual life.
4. I do detect a little change. He seems pretty smitten with them the moment they walk in because he describes every little detail about them. after he quits however, he only briefly looks for them and when can not find them does not seem that upset.
5. It becomes apparent when the manager is described to be walking up to the girls because the bathing suits they are wearing have been emphasized the whole story. The crisis is when the manager tells the girls not to wear the bathing suits, tells Sammy to ring them up and he quits. The climax is when he quits and confirms that he is quitting.
6. He quits because he is trying to be a sort of hero to the girls and hoping that they will notice him, which they do not.
7. I expected him to be sympathetic to the girls because as soon as they walk in that is all Sammy is thinking about and how he may be able to get their attention in some way.
8. I understand that Sammy was probably working this job to help his family to get by and pay bills and maybe even so he can pay for some of his own things. Sammy means that since he no longer has a job that his family was obvioulsy depending on him to have, is going to make things a lot tougher for him and his family to get by.
9. He makes that supermarket society, like every one, has its own set of characters who all have their little roles in this society such as Sammy, the manager, the old lady who Sammy incorrectly rings up and the girls as well as the other workers and shoppers.