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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Setting Questionaires

1. Place: a Northern Village at the border of the thirty-eighth parallel in Korea

2. Time: Korean war (1950-1953)

3. Social environment: Songsam is at police station and Tokchae is at the farm.

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.

Reading Project: Short Story Analysis Presentation

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Reflection

After I finished this reading project, I feel so happy because I find out that reading novel is fun. But I only like to read novel in free time. I like the "National Velvet" that I've read. It's very fun, suit with my taste. But the novel is not very famous because it's too old already. This reading project helps me to understand more about this novel because I have to summarize the main idea of each chapter. The novel is long but there are not many main ideas in it because mostly the story tells more about the life of the main characters more than their goals and dreams. My father forces me to read a lot of books but I hate reading. After I did this reading  project, I finds out that reading is fun and I will start reading a lot of books to please my father. I will not forget this story, it's the first novel I've ever read. National Velvet not only inspire me how good books are but it makes me feel better after a long day of school. I can go home and spend my time to read this book rather than play game.

Goals, Dreams and Motives

As I summarized the story, Velvet's dream is to win the Grand National Race with the Piebald. She always pray every night to win the race. Her dream seems impossible to success because her family is poor to provide horse for her and they will not enough money to enter the race. She and Mi has to save their own money, they also borrow Mrs. Brown's money. She also wants to have a lot of horses to ride on. I think she has to find it by herself because buying horses is not cheap for poor people. But her biggest dream is to win the race and it takes her a lot of effort to success her dream because it takes time to train her horse to be professional, the Piebald can jump five foot and Sir Pericles is the fastest.

Her goals are win as much shillings as possible to save in her bank account and make the Piebald famous. She may lost the qualify rounds but she has performed very impressive. She takes care of her horses very neatly, especially the Piebald and Sir Pericles. She uses her money wisely and saves it for the Race. Mi helps her to take care of the horses and train them to be professional. Mi is clever so he knows how to enter the race easily. He borrows Mrs. Brown money and promises that he will return after he wins the race.  She practices the Piebald to jump higher in the race and make it famous after she win the prize.

Her biggest motive is from her family poorness. She wants to win this race to get a lot of shillings to help her family has a better life. She also loves horses and she wants to ride on them one day. Her second motive for her to join the Grand National Race this year is she sees the Piebald is lovely and it jumps very high, higher than the other horses she has. She wants it to be famous and known by many countries. 

Time Line

Last summary

The race is starting, it's a foggy day. There's a struggle going on at Becher's; a horse has fallen and was being got out with ropes. Mi's legs turn to water. He runs to the front to see what is happening. The horse that has fallen is a black horse. There is a shout and another horse falls down with a rider riding on it. Two more horses come back out of the mist, one riderless. Nineteen horses has streamed down to the Canal Turn, and suddenly, at the boundary, four horses appear beyond Valentine's, and among them, fourth is the Piebald without Velvet. 

Mi is looking for Velvet everywhere but he cannot find her. The Associated Press in New York men sends a message to every place in Liverpool that the Piebald wins the race and Mi is taking care of him at Aintree. Velvet is now at Liverpool Central Hospital, they found her unconscious. When she wakes up, doctors ask her some questions, but she refuses to reveal her identity. She just tell them that she falls down the horse while riding and unconscious.

Soon, the news spread everywhere that a girl has won the Grand National but no one knows her name except Mi, the nurse is taking care of her. The resident M.O comes to the hospital to see Velvet. He asks questions about her and the Piebald. But she doesn't want tell her name to him and doctors but they can guess that she is about fourteen to sixteen years old. At home, Mr and Mrs Brown recognizes their daughter on the TV. The reporters tell them that she is the Liverpool Central Hospital, they also said that she slipped off her horse and fainted. They immediately get to Liverpool and take her home, Mi is at home waiting for her. The Piebald has been disqualified but they'll dare to drop them him out altogether. 

The next morning, the Browns wake up as usual, they find out that there's a crowd of people, including the reporters waiting to see Velvet. But the Browns don't want to meet them. Some people even send gifts to her. Some guys wants to be her boyfriend and propose her, she's now popular at school. Tomorrow Velvet and Mi are going to meet the National Hunt Committee. In an upper room in 15 Cavendish Square, round a board table, the board has assembled. They are summarized what happened at the Grand National. Then they call Velvet upstairs, they ask her a few questions about herself, the Piebald and family. One of them know Mrs. Brown as a swimmer of the Channel. She said that Mi helped her everything. She also said that she didn't want to join the Grand National, it was just for fun because she saw Piebald jump lovely so she decided to make him famous and this is Mi idea. They ask her to call Mi. They ask him some questions but finally he refuses to take the prize money and the cup because he likes to stay poor and help the Brown. From now on, people from every where in Europe and America call her National Velvet.

Events in the story

Velvet won the raffle ticket for a piebald horse

The old man gave her five horses before he dies because she told her that she wants to be a famous horse rider

Velvet won the Grand National Race

Summary 3

At the end, Velvet doesn't win that jumping game because she cares about piebald's health. Then they leaves the Ring and rest for the next competition. Then, the Voice announces for Event Number Five. Her rivals are two livery-stable men from Worthing, a grizzled woman with short hair and a hanging underlip, and a young man in checks on a hired horse with poverty checks. Everyone likes Sir Pericles horse. Velvet eliminates all the competitors left the little boy and a fat little man with a big horse's stable and comes Flora Bank  rode on a bay horse like a racer, lean and powerful and fully sixteen hands. But Velvet manages to beat them all and wins thirty shillings. At these chapters, they often mention the word "Weatherby", it's a gateway to a great park.

After she had given Mi the forty shillings, she had put three pounds in the Post Office Savings Bank. But Mr. Brown, Please with the performance at the gymkhana, had given her five shillings. She had wanted to bank this too but there is outcry among the sisters. One day, Velvet meets Mr. Ede. He saw piebald's performance at the competition. Velvet writes a letter to a the Weatherby (I think because the story didn't tell who she sent the letter to) to ask him about the Rules of entering for the Grand National Race. September passed and October came. Velvet by now had grown bolder. She no longer rose in dawn to fetch the piebald to the mushroom valley but take him in the red-haired autumn under cold afternoon moons of October  on dew-drenched grass. He can now jump five foot high.

 Now   Mi and Velvet are deciding to change a new name for piebald so when she wins the Grand National Race they will record his name for history. But in the end, they just call him The Piebald because they can't think a better name to call him. A reply from the Weatherby said that they needed a hundreds pound and money for a horsebox to enter the Grand National Race but they don't have enough money. So they asked for Mrs. Brown's saving money and she accepts but they won't tell Mr. Brown because he may disagree.

 On the first Monday in January Mi takes the whole entry money of a hundred pounds in gold sovereigns in a bag up to London. He goes to Mssrs. Weatherby in Cavendish Square. At first, they need only ten pounds but then they decide to take his one hundreds pounds and give him changes back, ask him some questions about the horse and the competitor, it takes a lot of time and Mi is getting impatient and inconvenience. Finally, they give him a receipt. Day after day, The Piebald becomes stronger and stronger. The National Grand Race is in Liverpool. Velvet and Mi save money and go there by taxi. 

Summary 2

One night, Velvet cannot sleep, she walks out of the house and sees an old gentleman dressing black. He asks her how did she come here. She tells him that she comes here by a pony. He also asks her that did she like ponies or not. She knocks her head and said that she had only one pony, and it's old. Then, he dragged her to his stables, he said that he had a lot of horses. She knew one of his horses' name. It's called Sir Pericles. Her old pony's name is Miss Ada. She said that she dreamed about horses every night when she's sleeping. She also said that she dreams to be a famous horse rider and wins a lot of trophies. 

The old man has five horses in his stables. Velvet wants to have a lot of horses to ride every day. The first grey mare had the snowy grey coat of the brink of age. The second one is a small pony, slim and strong, like a miniature horse. The other three are hunters and carriage horses and cart horses. He takes out a piece of paper and writes down her name. Velvet and his gardener sign at the paper. She takes the paper. At four o'clock in the morning, Mally announces that Velvet has won a piebald horse, but Mr. Cellini is dead. In the morning, Velvet waits for the horses to be delivered. When they comes, many people comes and watch. The horses' names are Sir Pericles, Angelina, Fancy and George.

When the horses had been with the Browns a month, they had lost flesh a little in the dry, sea-blown field, and were very slightly out of condition. Mi knew it, but didn't tell Velvet. Edwina and Velvet usually ride Sir. Pericles and Mrs. James. At night, they don't keep Mr. Pericles and Mrs. James because it'll be murder. So they put them in a stable. Then they check their schedule and "Novices jumping" is coming soon this week, they plan to take piebald because it can jump    
to three foot six but they don't have enough money join so Meredith suggests Velvet to sell Miss Ada but Velvet doesn't allow her. 

In the end, Velvet rides Sir. Pericles to the Tablet Gully alone. She ties him at the gate and free piebald. It runs away and then disappears. But Mally found him went down to the see as usual, and they decided not to tell their father. After dinner, they put piebald inside the loose-box. Velvet stays their to look after him, she gives him apple to eat. At midnight, Mi comes out and looks after piebald and Velvet goes to sleep. At the competition, the Browns loses five shillings because they didn't train their horses but the crowns impress with piebald after he breaks the gate and jumps over a three foot six wall. But the judge said that she didn't complete the competition yet.

Summary 1

 Velvet Brown is a 14 years old girl live with her parents named Mr and Mrs Brown at Hullock. The family is not rich, her father own a shop and a slaughterhouse, where he kills farm animals. Her mother does the books and cooks the liver, kidneys and sheep's heads that remain after the steak is sold, she was also a swimmer for Channel. She also lives with her three sister.

 Edwina, Malvolia, and Meredith, they are all exactly alike, like golden greyhounds. Their golden hair was sleek, their fine faces like antelopes, their shoulders still steady like Zulu women carrying water, and their bodies beneath the shoulders ripple with they move. They were seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen so Velvet is the youngest one in the family. Donald, a four years old boy lives with her family always sleep earlier than everyone else. Mi Taylor, who helps in the slaughterhouse, lives in a box stall with a rotting floor beside the old mare that the girls ride when they get up at dawn to deliver meat, he's also Velvet good friend.

 One night, Velvet follows her mother to the shop downtown. There, they see a horse of someone escaping and running around the town, drawing attentions of some people. With a striking of hoofs, sparks flying on the flints, a piebald horse, naked of leather, wild and alone, slid almost to his haunches and stood stock-still, shaking and panting. It stares at Mrs Brown and gallops up the street toward Hullock. 

 Later, they found out that the horse belongs to Farmer Ede. Edwina has a dream that her mother hit by the piebald horse, but Mrs Brown returns of safely. In the morning, everyone in the house talks about the piebald's horse.

National Velvet

Spectector Sport My Bedroom

 When I reach home from school, but it's not done yet because my next destination is my bedroom. I reach home and run straight to my bedroom, it's quite small because it's for only one single person. I keep everything in my bedroom from my study object to the things that I don't want my parents to see. The room is blue and green because they're my favorite colors. My room is bright and beautiful because it was designed by a good architecture. The furniture is good because it was bought with expense price and famous brand. Most of the things in my room are made of woods because they made me comfortable when I touch them. I like reading so I buy a lot of comic books and keep them in my room.


I got it here

 I affect my books on my main table and comic books on the shelf. My room has two lights, my bedroom's light and the light that I use for reading, but I always turn my reading light for sleeping because it's darker than the sleeping light and it's white and other is yellow and it's gratuitous but I get use to sleep in white light instead of yellow. My bed is single bed and it's quite small and there's not enough space for me to keep all the pillows on their. The bed's cover is white but it's very clean but my mom always wash it carefully because she's a very clean person. There're two windows in my room, each shown different neighbors.


I got it here

At night, the neighbor's dog keeps barking at my room because it sees me walking around, it effects my sleeping time, it's never docile.My room fills with fresh air because I always open the windows in the morning, it's also cool because my air conditioner is big. There's a big wardrobe in my room with my clothes. I love soccer so most of my clothes are about soccer jersey and some Nike, Adidas sport's t-shirt, and the other side keeps my uniforms like socks, belts, and usual EIS's uniforms. I always do my homework and review for tests in my room because my mom always watches TV in the living room and it's very noisy so I can't concentrate to study so I have to move to my bedroom.

My mom doesn't always come to my room so I can sleep whenever I want and I have more freedom to relax and study until midnight to prepare for tests and exams. I always beguile

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