Final Flashcards
The necklace author?
guy de mauspaunt
necklace characters?
Mathilde Loisel
Monsieur Loisel
Madame Forestier
Necklace plot summary
they go to a ball, mathilde loses a necklace she borrowed from madame forestier, they search endlessly for it and can’t find it. they have to buy a new one. it takes them ten years to pay it off. in the end the necklace was fake.
Necklace literary features
Irony, setting.
necklace themes
facing realities and hazards of keeping the truth from a person
how to date author
junto diaz
how to date charcters
malcriado, howie, and girl
how to date plot
Basically a short rulebook on what to do when a girl comes over in order to get into her pants.
how to date literary features
point of view and naration
how to date themes
proliferation of stereotypes and wisdom of experience
good country people author
flannery o’connor
good country people charcters
Hulga, mrs hopewell, mrs. freemen, manly pointer
good country people plot
a girl named Hulga suffers from an accident and see’s love as meaningless until she meets a man named Manly Pointer. He is a bible salesman who makes Hulga feel a different way than she has before. In the end they go into a barn and Hulga lets Manly Pointer take off her prosthetic leg. He isn’t all that he seems to be and revels that he is a con artist and steals Hulga’s leg and runs off leaving Hulga alone.
good country people literary features
tone; playful and judgmental
style; conversational
good country people theme
love class and religion
UFO author
hauraki murakami
UFO charcters
komura, keiko, saiki
ufo themes
sadness tragedy and hope
ufo plot
Brief summary starts with Komura who was a slim handsome man, worked as a salesman at one of the oldest hi-fi-equipment specialty stores in Tokyo’s Akihabara “Electronics Towns” most of his clients were doctors and he had a wife, who was opposite from him she was short with thick arms, she had a dull appearance. She rarely spoke and she would leave every so often for about a week to see her parents and it didn’t bother him because she would leave a note, he just wanted her to come back and she always did. Til one day his wife left a note on the kitchen table saying she will not be coming back and she no longer wanted to live with him, that he is a good and kind man, and there are lots of women who will fall in love with him, don’t call her and get rid of her things that were left, which were hardly anything. His mother in law called and told him to sign the papers and that you cant change anything. Then later he asked for a week’s paid leave, in February which was a slow time of the year so his boss said yes. Sasaki a colleague friend of came over and he told Komura why don’t you go on a nice trip and Komura agree and then Sasaki said he had a small package he’d like to send to Kushiro and that he just doesn’t feel like mailing the package, small package hardly weight anything so he said yes and that Sasaki will pay for round trip and hotel. So that when Komura went on that long trip he read a morning paper was full of earthquakes reports, number of deaths was rising. Two women wearing overcoats similar walk over to Komura and their names are Keiko Sasaki youngest sister of Sasaki and her friend Shimao. Keiko said sorry about your wife’s death and Komura said his wife didn’t die and that she divorce him. So they all went to go eat then Keiko said remember the couple Mr. Saeki who’s wife saw a UFO and she told everybody then she left him and his kids, they assume that might have happen to Komura’s wife, then they went to the hotel that Shimao chosen and the three of them went up to the room and while on that drive Keiko said remember the bear story to Shimao and they never end of telling , so when Komura went to the bathroom to Take a bath and then when he got out Keiko was gone , Shimao said she left and asked if she can stay a little longer. She went took a bath and was in a towel and tried to have sex with Komura and then she told him the bear story how three years ago when she was in junior college how her boyfriend and her went on a hike and there were a lot of bears and they had to use a bell a wind bell to warn bears there’s people around. So her boyfriend thought of them why not have sex in the woods so they did and they ring the bell each taking turns while they had sex and then Komura laugh. Then he asked what was in the box that he brought to keiko and shimao said it was something that was inside of you and that you’ll never get it back. Komura was on the verge of committing an act of overwhelming violence then quickly she said just kidding. And then he was calm. With her fingers on Komuras chest as if a spell she said your just the beginning.
ufo distinct lit features
metaphor simile symbolism
Brownies author
ZZ Packer
brownies charcters
- Arnetta
- Octavia
- Snot, (Laurel)
brownies plot
The girls in the story are in 4th grade and are at a camp. There is the Brownie troop that is made up of African-American girls and there is Troop 909 which is made up of all white girls. The Brownie troop immediately doesn’t like Troop 909. Laurel “Snot” is more quiet and reserved and doesn’t seem to have a problem with Troop 909. It is later said that one of the girls from Troop 909 called Daphne, in the Brownie troop the N word and Arnetta wants to fight Troop 909. The Brownie troop makes plans to beat up Troop 909 in the bathroom. When the girls meet up in the bathroom, Troop 909 said that they never called Daphne the N word and it is learned that Troop 909 has mental disabilities. There is no fight and Troop 909 tells on the Brownies. They get in trouble and on the bus ride home, Laurel “Snot” makes better friends with Daphne and learns the realization of racism when she remembers a story about her dad and the Mennonites and how white and black people treat each other.
brownies distinct literary features
setting, camp
brownies theme
revenge, discrimination
The Story of an Hour author
kate choplin
The Story of an Hour charcters
Louise Mallard
The Story of an Hour plot
- Louise Mallard was carefully informed about her husband’s death.
- The reader discovers that Louise’s husband was killed in a tragic train incident.
- Louise begins to cry when she hears the troubling news and runs upstairs to her bedroom.
- Louise looks at an empty window where she can see the view of outside.
- Although she is grieving she commences to shout “Free” to herself. She starts to imagine the years that are to come without her husband. She realizes that although she loved her husband he won’t be able to oppress her anymore.
- When her sister and her walk downstairs the front door unexpectedly opens. Louise’s husband walks in.
- Louise dies of a heart attack that was brought by happiness.
The Story of an Hour literary features
symbols;
One symbol that we are able to notice in the story is the open window. The open window represents the freedom and opportunities that will come to her because her husband has died.
the story of an hour themes
forbidden joy of independence, the inherent oppressiveness of marriage
There will come soft rains author
Ray Bradbury
There will come soft rains charcters
the house
the kitchen appliances
the mice
There will come soft rains plot
In August of 2026, in California, a fully-automated house announces that it is time to wake up. Yet the house is empty. Breakfast is automatically made, but there is no one to eat it. Outside, where the automatic sprinklers come on, a wall can be seen where the paint has all been burned off except for a few silhouettes. There is a silhouette of a man and woman doing yardwork and of a boy and a girl throwing a ball. The rest of the neighborhood is charred and flattened, and a radioactive glow hangs over the city. A dog enters the house, covered with sores, and dies. The robotic mice that automatically clean the house take the dog away to the incinerator. As evening comes, the house automatically reads the woman’s favorite poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The poem describes how, once man is utterly destroyed because of a war, nature will go on without man, as if nothing had happened. Later that night, a tree bough falls on the house, causing a fire that consumes all of the house but one wall.
In October of 2026, a rocket lands on Mars. It carries a husband and wife and three boys. They have a stockpile of food. They head down a canal in a boat. The Dad has a mysterious smile on his face, and his eldest (but still young) son Timothy tries to understand what is happening. Suddenly, they hear an explosion, as their rocket self-destructs. The Dad explains that he has brought them away from Earth to start a new life on Mars. The next day, the Edwards will arrive with their daughters, and together they will start life anew. The Dad lets his boys pick out a city to live in, and he burns a number of papers he brought from Earth, even a map of Earth. He then takes his boys to see some Martians. He has them look into the canal at their own reflections.
There will come soft rains distinct literary features
personification of a house
setting a post apocalyptic futrure
There will come soft rains themes
irony; dealing with the poem personification of a house
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas AUTHOR
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas CHARCTERS
The child
The people that leave Omelas because they do not agree with treating the child
The people who stay in Omelas
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas PLOT
allegorical tale about a Utopian society in which Omelas’ happiness is made possible by the sacrifice of one child for the sake of the group.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas LITERARY FEATURES
Setting; a nearly perfect world where no one suffers except for one child.
symbolism; the child is the sacrificial lamb
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas THEMES
suffering of the few worth the health of the many
Miss Clairol author
Helena Maria Viramontes
Miss Clairol charcter
Arlene (Mother)
Ofelia “Champ” (Daughter)
Miss Clairol plot
The story starts off at a store and Arlene and Champ are there to get makeup and hair dye because Arlene has a date to go on. It is assumed that they don’t pay for their things when leaving the store. Arlene and Champ are Hispanic and Arlene often changes her appearance. For most of the story, it is just Arlene getting ready for her date. It goes into detail that Arlene has a cigarette burn on her nipple from a previous date gone bad. While Arlene is getting ready, Champ is described as very independent and is making herself dinner and seems like she has done this many times before. The author then goes into describe how Arlene lost her virginity and how she told Champ but lied and made it seem a lot better than it actually was. Its mentioned three times throughout the story that Arlene is romantic. While Champ eats her soup, Arlene goes off on her date, hoping that it goes well. Arlene seems very selfish and treats her daughter more like a friend or sister.
Miss Clairol literary features
style; very blunt and graphic
Miss Clairol themes
don’t have kids at a young age
if you do, to be a good mom to them. Arlene likely had Champ at a young age by the way that she acts and talks to her daughter more as a friend. She seems irresponsible and very selfish and doesn’t put her daughter’s needs before her own.
Heart of Darkness author
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness chacters
Marlow - Is philosophical, independent-minded, and generally skeptical of those around
him. He is also a master storyteller, eloquent and able to draw his listeners into his tale.
● Kurtz - The chief of the Inner Station and object of Marlow’s quest. Kurtz is a man of
many talents- we learn, among other things, that he is a gifted musician and a fine
painter- the chief of which are his charisma and his ability to lead men.
● General manager - The chief agent the Company in its African territory, who runs the
Central Station. He owes his success to hardly constitution that allows him to outlive all
his competitors.
Heart of Darkness plot
Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his
journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities.
Marlow takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to
trade in the Congo. As he travels to Africa and then up the Congo. Marlow arrives at the Central
Station, run by the general manager, an unwholesome, conspiratorial character.Marlow and his
crew come across a hut with stacked firewood, together with a note saying that the wood is for
them but that they should approach cautiously. Shortly after the steamer has taken on the
firewood, it is surrounded by a dense fog. When the fog clears, the ship is attacked by an unseen
band of natives, who fire arrows from the safety of the forest. The manager brings Kurtz, who is
quite ill, aboard the steamer. A beautiful native woman, apparently Kurtz’s mistress, appears on
the shore and stares out at the ship.Marlow listens to Kurtz talk while he pilots the ship, and
Kurtz entrusts Marlow with a packet of personal documents, including an eloquent pamphlet on
civilizing the savages which ends with a scrawled message that says, “Exterminate all the
brutes!” The steamer breaks down, and they have to stop for repairs. Kurtz dies, uttering his last
words—“The horror! The horror!”—in the presence of the confused Marlow. Marlow falls ill
soon after and barely survives. Eventually he returns to Europe and goes to see Kurtz’s Intended
Heart of Darkness literary features
Symbols - fog, women, the river
Heart of Darkness theme
Madness as a result of imperialism- Madness is closely linked to imperialism in this book. Africa is responsible for mental disintegration as well as physical illness. Madness has two primary functions. First, it serves as an ironic device to engage the reader’s sympathies. Kurtz, Marlow is told from the beginning, is mad. However, as Marlow, and the reader, begin to form a more complete picture of Kurtz, it becomes apparent that his madness is only relative, that in the context of the Company insanity is difficult to define.
The absurdity of evil -This novella is, above all, is an exploration of hypocrisy, ambiguity, and moral confusion. It explodes the idea of the proverbial choice between the lesser of two evils. As the idealistic Marlow is forced to align himself with either the hypocritical and malicious
colonial bureaucracy or the openly malevolent, rule-defying Kurtz, it becomes increasingly clear that to try to judge either alternative is an act of lack of good sense.
Age of Faith author
Alice Munro
Age of Faith charcters
Del, mother
Age of Faith plot
Del the protagonist of the story, is a 12 year old girl who lives in Canada. The story goes through her struggle with her skepticism of her parents’ religion and her search for a new faith to practice. Throughout the story, Del relates her search of a religion to things like burglars, dogs and sewing.
Age of Faith literary features
setting; canada
Age of Faith themes
pressure to conform
importance of religion
