Questions A and B

1. Plot

1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?

• The story is about a prisoner who wore glasses named Brille, who is in jail. He catches the warder stealing fertilizer and Brille uses leverage to make a deal with the warder.

1. Are the main events in the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?

• Chronologically, but with some flashbacks.

1. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?

• The story is narrated in third person, and there are flashbacks and stories within stories.

1. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced.

• I think this story is a boring old slow-paced story.

1. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of the characters move the plot forward? 

• Brille catching the warder stealing, then Brille making the deal. Those things are the actions and behaviors that move the story forward the most.

1. 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?

• The conflicts are physical and intellectual. They’re resolved when Brille makes a deal with warner.

1. 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?

• When Brille betrays the warner and still rats him out.

1. 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?

• Yes.

1. 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?

• The story doesn’t make much use of coincidence, but during important parts, they’re used to complicate the story, especially with the betrayal. 

1. Setting

1. Place: the geographical location of the story -- a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.

• The story takes place in a work camp in South Africa.

1. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the events of the story occur.

• They don’t really say

1. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class)

• The social environment is the Span One. The group of the prisoners who were politicians who have no guilt whatsoever, and they’re in the work camp.