Kurt Vonnegut
Theme
Harrison Bergeron
The Danger of Total Equality
Setting
George and Hazel Bergeron’s living room in the future.
Narrator Point of
View
Introduction /
Exposition
Third-Person (Objective)
Protagonist
We learn that the America of 2081 is a world with hundreds
more rules and regulations than we have now. We also meet
George and Hazel Bergeron, two people whose son,
Harrison, has been arrested by the government for being allaround too awesome. They're watching ballet on TV.
Hazel starts thinking about changes she would make to the
rules if she were Handicapper General.
In his few moments of freedom, he takes a ballerina as his
Empress, frees her from her mask, and defies gravity by
flying into the air and kissing the ceiling of the auditorium.
Then he's shot dead by the Handicapper General, and
everything's back to normal.
We're not even sure how much George sees, because at
some point he just leaves to get a beer. Hazel did watch
what happened, but she soon forgets about it too.
There's nothing to resolve here because, to George and
Hazel, nothing actually happened. Their day-to-day life
remains the same.
Harrison Bergeron
George Bergeron
Hazel Bergeron
Diana Moon Glampers
The Ballerina-Turned-Announcer
The Empress
The Announcer
Harrison Bergeron -attempts to defy his handicaps,
Antagonist
Diana Moon Glampers, Handicapper General
Rising Action
Cimax
Falling Action
Conclusion /
Denoument
Characters:
Shelley Jackson
Theme
The Lottery
The Danger of Blindly Following Tradition
Setting
The anonymity of the village signals its universality. It adds
to the horror of the story that we can imagine the lottery
taking place anywhere, in any small town we might know.
As for the lottery's temporal setting – a day in mid-summer
– it indicates a period of unconstrained growth and reckless
abandon.
Third Person (Objective)
Narrator Point of
View
Introduction /
Exposition
Rising Action
Cimax
Villagers gather in the square. The story begins with a sense
of liberation. It's a beautiful summer day, the children are
out of school, and the villagers have begun assembling in
the square to hold a lottery.
Each member of the Hutchinson family nervously draws
from the box.
Tess Hutchinson wins the lottery.
Falling Action
Conclusion /
Denoument
Characters:
Tess Hutchinson protests the lottery.
The villagers surround Tess carrying stones. The villagers
begin attacking
The Boys (Bobby Martin, Dickie Delacroix, Harry and
Bobby Jones)
Mr. (Joe) Summers
Mr. (Harry) Graves
Old Man Warner
Tess Hutchinson
Mr. and Mrs. Adams
The Delacroix Family
The Watsons and Dunbars
Mrs. Graves
Mr. (Bill) Hutchinson and children
Baxter Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Protagonist
The Village
Antagonist
The Lottery
Roald Dahl
Theme
Setting
Man from the South
Do not easily trust strangers.
If it is too good to be true, it probably is.
Place: the story takes place in front of hotel and in the room
of hotel in Jamaica. Time: in the evening around at six
o’clock.
Narrator Point of
View
Introduction /
Exposition
First Person point of view (participant)
Rising Action
When he meets with Carlos, then they are make conversation
until a boy and English girl come and stand in front of them.
Then the boy offers the cigarette to narrator and Carlos. The
boy turns on his lighter and say that it is always work and never
fails, so it makes Carlos curious, then he invited the boy to bet.
Then, they agree to bet with giving the car if the boy wins and
cutting off his finger if he loses.
The climax is when Carlos has finished preparing all of thing
that he needs in the bet. Then, the boy very serious to light his
lighter while Carlos hanging the chopper in the air, ready to
chop. The narrator is as the referee and counts the number of
times the boy light the lighter. He counts one, two, three until
eight and the boy did not fail yet. All people there are tensely
until suddenly the woman comes and opens the door. She stops
that crazy bet.
When the woman suddenly comes and opens the door. All
people look at her. She shouts Carlos’s name, then she reprimand
to Carlos. After that she also explains all about Carlos who is a
menace because he has taken 47 fingers from different people.
Then, she apologizes to them.
Cimax
Falling Action
Conclusion /
Denoument
Introduction / Exposition in this story starts from the first
paragraph when the narrator tells about condition, view, scene,
and situation around him until he notices a small, oldish man
(Carlos).
Characters:
When the woman has finished explaining about who is
exactly Carlos to them. She looks up the boy and smiles,
then, she takes her car’s key.
1. Carlos 2. The Boy 3. The Woman
Protagonist
The boy, English girl, and ‘the woman’
Antagonist
Carlos
Frank Stockton
Theme
Setting
Narrator Point of
View
Introduction /
Exposition
The Lady or the Tiger
The confusing nature of love, civilization and barbarity.
Determinism vs. Free Will
The story takes place a long time ago in a kingdom far, far away.
3rd person (Omniscient)
Rising Action
The exposition of the "The Lady, or the Tiger" is the
description of the semi-barbaric king and his kingdom. It
also includes the explanation of the king's arena with the
two doors that contain the blushing bride and the raging the
tiger
The king finds out about the princess' and courtier's affair
Cimax
When the youth opens the door
Falling Action
None
Conclusion /
Denoument
Characters:
Left to the reader to decide.
Protagonist
The Princess’ love
Antagonist
Princess’ jealousy
The youth (boy)
The king, the courtier, the lady, the tiger
Flannery O’Connor
Theme
Setting
Narrator Point of
View
Introduction /
Exposition
Rising Action
Cimax
Falling Action
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Good vs Evil
Religion
Manipulation
Family, Society and Class
The story takes place in Georgia. This tale begins in a
nameless city where the family lives, and takes us various
places along the road as the family travels.
Third Person (Limited Omniscient)
In the first paragraph, we get the essential information that a
murderer called The Misfit is on the loose. We suspect that he's
lurking in our characters' future. In the meantime, we get to
enjoy all of the comedic delights of family squabbles as the
grandmother and her family hit the road and dine at Red
Sammy's. In the process, we learn as much about the characters
as we need to.
The Misfit shows up, making the situation much worse. The
grandmother endangers the family by revealing that she knows
who he is. Suspense builds, but doom is certain. One by one, the
family members are killed in the woods, until only the
grandmother is left. Meanwhile, the grandmother has been
growing frantic trying to convince the killer to spare her life.
The grandmother's moment of grace is definitely the climax of
the story. It seems as though the grandmother triumphs in the
end.
The Misfit to recoils and shoots the grandmother three times in
the chest.
Conclusion /
Denoument
The Misfit's thugs return, and are told to dispose of the
grandmother's body. The grandmother appears to have died
happily, smiling up at the sky. The lingering question is how this
has affected The Misfit.
Characters:
Protagonist
1. The Grandfather 2. The Misfit 3. Bailey
4. June Star 5.John Wesley 6.The Mother
7. Bobby Lee 8.Hiram 9.Red Sammy
10. Red Sammy’s Wife 11. Pity Sing 12.The Baby
Grace
Antagonist
Punishment