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.

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?
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.