Chapter 1 Questions

Chapter 1 Questions Page 6: 1. The personalities of the North Wind are eager, acts without thinking, and very persistant on winning. While the Sun has a very different personality that shows he is calm and sure of himself. 2. The North Wind's efforts are ineffective because it made the man cling to his cloak the harder he blew. 3. The Sun was successful in his attempt because he shone so brightly and directly that it warmed the man rather than chilling him like the efforts shown by the North Wind, resulting in the man taking his cloak off. The Sun was patient in his attempt unlike the North Wind. 4. The Man serves as a test subject, a mere bystandard in there challenge. 5. The moral is persuasion is better than force meaning that you are more likely to get what you want by calmly persuading someone to do something rather than go about it roughly and forcefully. People in general want to feel like they have a choice and when you force someone to do something, you are taking away that choice. Page 8: 1.I believe that the exposition of this story is located in the first sentence where it portrays the characters and setting of the story. Chuang Tzu uses two sentences to set up the dramatic situation. 2. The protagonist changes the subject and mentions the turtoise to paint the two high officials a picture or to make a point of how he views the offer at hand. Instead of answering them directly, he uses the visual of the tortoise lying there dead to make them actually listen to and understand why he would object such an offer. I believe that it does serve a purpose that he asks the officials a question he already has an answer to because it is kind of like a confirmation that was already understood. 3. In this story, Chuang Tsu is a free loving non conformist who would rather live his life as he wishes than be honored for a life he does not want. Page 19-20 1. The details about the shoppers in the supermarket having a one track mind and the details given from a teenagers point of view seem particularly true to life for me. The close attention to detail makes you feel like you are there at the supermarket seeing and feeling exactly what Sammy is. 2. Updike draws more on Sammys mentality and personality than on any physical characteristics except for his age being 19. Sammy shows the traits of a teenage boy being bored at his job, lusting over girls, admirable in his unseen attempt at heroism, and immaturity. I do not believe he is any less of a hero when he wasn't seen by the girls beccause he stood up for something that he obviously felt stronly about at the time. Sammy is more fully portrayed than the doctor in the sense that you get to visualize more of his mentality. 3.The exposition seems to be when the three girls are being described and the setting of the supermarket. The portrait drawn of Queenie shows that this is not a usual event for that supermarket and that she is not like most of the usual people there. 4. Sammy goes from just seeing the girls as an object of his lust that amuse him to people that he feels that he needs to impress and stand up for, even if it is just to get there attention. 5. I believe the dramatic conflict becomes apparent when not only the manager notices the girls but also when the customers do. It sets up the fact that they don't belong there.The crisis becomes apparent when the manager comes over to talk to them. The climax of the story is when Sammy says he quits. 6. Sammy quits his job to impress the girls by standing up for them. 7.I think that when Sammy talks about the way that Queenie made him feel inside just by looking at her forshadows that he will have sympathy for her. 8. I understtod from the story that Sammy lost his job because he stood up for a girl that he wanted to impress. Sammy sees that he probably made a mistake seeing as how him quitting did nothing to impress the girls and now he has lost a job and has to face his parents that got him that job. 9. Updike makes the comment that customers are like sheep with one track minds that can easily be distracted by something out of there normal routine happening.