1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events ?
Ans:The author's main attitude toward event is one of almost no description. He does this to make sure that the actions done and the words spoken are as clear as possible for the reader to understand without ambiguiouty.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or fightening ? Does the author want you to laugh or cry , to feel happy or sad, to experiences anger or fear ?
Ans: I believe that the story begins tragic and may even end tragic but the aim of the writer is to make reader understand the situations in his country and to understand that there still may be the possibility of freedom but ulimatly, he wants reader to feel anger at the situations of his country.
3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator ? Does the author like or dislike , trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator ?
Ans: The authors' attitude toward the character are not expressed as like or dislike, trust or mistrust at all. The author only asks the reader to understand the characters and the situations they face wtihout judgement.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Symbolism
1. What are some of the symbols in the story ?
Ans: Symbols are the cigarette and chestnuts which are used to remind two men to their happy past and cranes united the freedom of their past to the freedom of their present.
2. Are there any object which seem to have a symbolic meaning ? What are their meanings ? What are their meanings?
Ans: Cigarette and chestnuts. Because Songsam tries not to smoke cigarette this is because he thougth it will remind his past and it might change his mind to not shoot his friend.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story ? What do they represent ?
Ans: No, no one acts as symbols.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic ? In what way?
Ans: No, story setting is not symbolic
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change ?
Ans: The only symbol is used throughout is the crane which is used as a metaphor when it is trapped, like the Korean people, and when it is released, like the Korean people wish for freedom.
Ans: Symbols are the cigarette and chestnuts which are used to remind two men to their happy past and cranes united the freedom of their past to the freedom of their present.
2. Are there any object which seem to have a symbolic meaning ? What are their meanings ? What are their meanings?
Ans: Cigarette and chestnuts. Because Songsam tries not to smoke cigarette this is because he thougth it will remind his past and it might change his mind to not shoot his friend.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story ? What do they represent ?
Ans: No, no one acts as symbols.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic ? In what way?
Ans: No, story setting is not symbolic
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change ?
Ans: The only symbol is used throughout is the crane which is used as a metaphor when it is trapped, like the Korean people, and when it is released, like the Korean people wish for freedom.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Characters
1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
Ans: Tokchae, he is the vice chairman of the farmers' communist league. Songsam, he is a police officer that escorts Tokchae to the police station.
2. Describe the main characters' situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
Ans: The story cranes begins with one of the story's maincharacters Tokchae, who is the vice-chairman of the Farmers’ Communist League,was forcibly removed from his home and is now a prisoner, and is to be escortedby the police to another police station in Ch’ongdan. He did not run away because that would mean leaving his wifeand unborn child behind.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
Ans: The chief characteristic of the main characters are Tokchae is a fatalist and also optimistic about his familiy's future. The other character is loyal and nationalistic but also pressis feelings about what made him nationalistic and these feeling turned to regret.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing ? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
Ans: The police officer faces a conflict of interest between his mission and friendship towards his friends. But in the end, he helps his friend to escape.
5. Is ant character a developing character ? If so, is his change a large or small one ? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
Ans: The developing character is that of the policeman who turns from nationalism to friendship and this change is seen very fast
Ans: Tokchae, he is the vice chairman of the farmers' communist league. Songsam, he is a police officer that escorts Tokchae to the police station.
2. Describe the main characters' situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
Ans: The story cranes begins with one of the story's maincharacters Tokchae, who is the vice-chairman of the Farmers’ Communist League,was forcibly removed from his home and is now a prisoner, and is to be escortedby the police to another police station in Ch’ongdan. He did not run away because that would mean leaving his wifeand unborn child behind.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
Ans: The chief characteristic of the main characters are Tokchae is a fatalist and also optimistic about his familiy's future. The other character is loyal and nationalistic but also pressis feelings about what made him nationalistic and these feeling turned to regret.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing ? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
Ans: The police officer faces a conflict of interest between his mission and friendship towards his friends. But in the end, he helps his friend to escape.
5. Is ant character a developing character ? If so, is his change a large or small one ? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
Ans: The developing character is that of the policeman who turns from nationalism to friendship and this change is seen very fast
Imagery
1. What scenes, moment , descriptive passages, phrases , or words stand out in your reading of the story?
Ans: The most memorable moment in the story is when Tokchae convinces Songsam and then he changes his mind and let his childhood friend go free.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened , or disturbed, or angry? Why?
Ans: It makes me feel very happy because Songsam is a good friend. He knows that friendship is always more important than his mission and the story ends in a good way.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you assosiate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
Ans: Image which would had been used most to describe this imagery would obviously be sight as no other scences were relevant or desribe in the story.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story ?
Ans: I don't think my reactions to the imagery in this story helped at all to the overall meaning of the story because the story is very clear and its ending makes everyone pleases and happy.
Ans: The most memorable moment in the story is when Tokchae convinces Songsam and then he changes his mind and let his childhood friend go free.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened , or disturbed, or angry? Why?
Ans: It makes me feel very happy because Songsam is a good friend. He knows that friendship is always more important than his mission and the story ends in a good way.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you assosiate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
Ans: Image which would had been used most to describe this imagery would obviously be sight as no other scences were relevant or desribe in the story.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story ?
Ans: I don't think my reactions to the imagery in this story helped at all to the overall meaning of the story because the story is very clear and its ending makes everyone pleases and happy.
Point of View
1. What point of view does the story ?
Ans: Second person
2. What are the advantages of chosen point of view ?
Ans: The advantages of writing in second person is that the writer can go outside facts and use more imaginations regarding events that happened.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable ?
Yes, it's reliable because the narrator deals with an emotive point of time in his country's history.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal ?
Ans: The author uses second person to council some details at the end of the story but not unfairly and he uses this to let the reader imagine what happen to the two characters.
Ans: Second person
2. What are the advantages of chosen point of view ?
Ans: The advantages of writing in second person is that the writer can go outside facts and use more imaginations regarding events that happened.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable ?
Yes, it's reliable because the narrator deals with an emotive point of time in his country's history.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal ?
Ans: The author uses second person to council some details at the end of the story but not unfairly and he uses this to let the reader imagine what happen to the two characters.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Setting Questionaires
1. Place: a Northern Village at the border of the thirty-eighth
parallel in Korea
2. Time: Korean war (1950-1953)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Plot Questionaires
1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
Ans: Thestory cranes begins with one of the story's main characters Tokchae, who is the vice-chairman of the Farmers’ Communist League, was forcibly removed from his home and is now a prisoner, and is to be escorted by the police to another police station in Ch’ongdan. One of the officers, Songsam, realizes that Tokchae is his childhood friend, so he volunteers to serve as escort. While escorting Tokchae, Songsam feels a sudden burst of anger and starts asking Tokchae how many men he has killed in the war. Tokchae remains silent. Songsam presses him, but Tokchae will not speak. Songsam asks Tokchae why he did notrun away instead of becoming part of the war. Tokchae then says that he became part of the league because he was a hardworking farmer, and he did not run because he has a wife who is carrying their child, and that it is not so easy to just run away.Songsam compares this to his own situation, he left behind his family and allthat was important to him to escape and go into hiding. Eventually they come across a field where as children they use to hunt cranes. It is then that Songsam unties Tokchae’s hands and asks Tokchae to help him hunt a crane. At first Tokchae fears that Songsam will shoot him, but then he understands that Songsam is giving him an opportunity to go free.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Ans: the main events of the story arranged chronologically.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Ans: This story is a first person story told by SongSam.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Ans: fast-paced
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
Ans: the way that Songsam and Tokchae interact with each other isthe thing that develops the most in the story.
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?
Ans: SongSam conflict within himself was more or less trying todecide whether he was going to take his old childhood best friend to his deathor not. They are emotional. Finally, SongSam let Tokchae go free. More subtleand complex
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?
Ans: the climax of the story is when two best friends go againsteach other. It occurs when Songsam escorts Tokchae to another police station inCh’ongdan. The ending is happy because SongSam let Tokchae escape.
Ans: yes
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
Ans: the coincidence of the story is when the two man meets again as the enemy. They are not improbable, this is because one man was a escaping into the south and the other man was guarding the boarder.
Ans: Thestory cranes begins with one of the story's main characters Tokchae, who is the vice-chairman of the Farmers’ Communist League, was forcibly removed from his home and is now a prisoner, and is to be escorted by the police to another police station in Ch’ongdan. One of the officers, Songsam, realizes that Tokchae is his childhood friend, so he volunteers to serve as escort. While escorting Tokchae, Songsam feels a sudden burst of anger and starts asking Tokchae how many men he has killed in the war. Tokchae remains silent. Songsam presses him, but Tokchae will not speak. Songsam asks Tokchae why he did notrun away instead of becoming part of the war. Tokchae then says that he became part of the league because he was a hardworking farmer, and he did not run because he has a wife who is carrying their child, and that it is not so easy to just run away.Songsam compares this to his own situation, he left behind his family and allthat was important to him to escape and go into hiding. Eventually they come across a field where as children they use to hunt cranes. It is then that Songsam unties Tokchae’s hands and asks Tokchae to help him hunt a crane. At first Tokchae fears that Songsam will shoot him, but then he understands that Songsam is giving him an opportunity to go free.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Ans: the main events of the story arranged chronologically.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Ans: This story is a first person story told by SongSam.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Ans: fast-paced
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
Ans: the way that Songsam and Tokchae interact with each other isthe thing that develops the most in the story.
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?
Ans: SongSam conflict within himself was more or less trying todecide whether he was going to take his old childhood best friend to his deathor not. They are emotional. Finally, SongSam let Tokchae go free. More subtleand complex
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?
Ans: the climax of the story is when two best friends go againsteach other. It occurs when Songsam escorts Tokchae to another police station inCh’ongdan. The ending is happy because SongSam let Tokchae escape.
Ans: yes
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
Ans: the coincidence of the story is when the two man meets again as the enemy. They are not improbable, this is because one man was a escaping into the south and the other man was guarding the boarder.
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