English | Graded Assignment | Unit Test, Part 2: Elements of a Short Story Name: Rutger Gutierrez best friend. Then the man whom Bob believed was “Jimmy”

said to Bob that they should walk around a little bit. “The two Date: 10/21/15 (a) Graded Assignment men started up the street, arm in arm. The man from the Unit Test, Part 2: Elements of a Short Story West, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to

Answer the questions using complete sentences. outline the history of his career. The other, submerged in his

overcoat, listened with interest. At the corner stood a drug Total score: ____ of 45 points store, brilliant with electric lights. When they came into this (Score for Question 1: ___ of 10 points) glare each of them turned simultaneously to gaze upon each (b) Both “Silky” Bob in “After Twenty Years” and Tessie in “The Lottery” face threats to their other’s face. The man from the West stopped suddenly and lives or freedom. Compare and contrast the way released his arm.” Bob said that the man in the long overcoat

each author depicts these dangerous situations was not Jimmy. “You’re not Jimmy Wells,” he snapped. by discussing the characters’ behavior and feelings. “Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to a pug.” The policeman in the Answer: long overcoat handed Bob a note, saying it was requested for “Silky” Bob in “After Twenty Years” is caught finally after

him. “The man from the West unfolded the little piece of committing a crime in Chicago. He went a thousand miles

paper handed to him. His hand was steady when he began to away to meet up with his friend Jimmy Wells, in which they

read, but trembled a little by the time he had finished.” This made an agreement that they would come to New York 20

shows that the first policeman was Jimmy. years later. Bob was waiting for Jimmy in the doorway of an

Tessie Hutchinson in “The Lottery” also faces something old hardware store, when a police officer slowed his walk and

similar to Silky Bob in “After Twenty Years”. The story starts in looked at Bob. “The man in the doorway struck a match and

a village and everyone was getting ready for the lottery, in lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with

which they do every year. Mr. Summers, the events man, keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His

came up on the podium and set down a large wooden black scarfpin was a large diamond, oddly set.” Bob explained to

box that contained the lottery winners. Mr. Summers the officer that he was just waiting for his old friend to show

announced a few people. Then when Bill Hutchinson was up. The officer said he would be on his way and wished Bob

called, people said he “has it”. Mrs. Hutchinson complains luck that Jimmy will eventually show up. Bob and Jimmy

that Bill did not have enough time to pick a paper and Bill tells promised to meet each other in 20 years on the exact date

her to be quiet. Mr. Summers asks whether there are any and time “Big Joe” Brady closed down. After waiting some

other households in the Hutchinson family, and Bill says no, time, a man in a long overcoat with the collar turned up to his

because his married daughter draws with her husband’s ears, hurried across the empty street and walked right up to

family. Mr. Summers asks how many kids Bill has and he the waiting man. Bob began to talk about how Jimmy was

replies saying that he has three. Tessie argues and says that going to meet him up in New York and how Jimmy was his

© 2015 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 3 Copying or distributing without K12’s written consent is prohibited. English | Graded Assignment | Unit Test, Part 2: Elements of a Short Story the lottery was not fair. Mr. Graves dumps the papers out of (Score for Question 3: ___ of 10 points) the box and onto the ground and then draws five papers in (d) The main character in each story in this unit for the Hutchinson family. As Mr. Summers calls their names, deals with a difficult conflict. Choose two stories, describe the resolution of each main each member of the Hutchinson family comes up and draws a conflict, and compare how the resolutions paper. When they open their slips, they find that Tessie has reveal the stories’ themes. Give evidence from drawn her paper with a black dot on it. Mr. Summers tells the text to support your analysis. everyone to hurry up and gather stones to throw at Tessie. Answer:

Everyone in the village grabs stones from the pile and throws After Twenty Years I think has a difficult them at Tessie who stands in a clearing in the middle of the conflict. The conflict of After Twenty Years is crowd. Tessie complains again that it is not fair and is hit in whether Silky Bob’s old pal Jimmy Wells will the head with a stone. Everyone begins to throw stones at her because she won the lottery with the black dot on it. show up or not. At one point, a police officer

(Score for Question 2: ___ of 10 points) stops by and immediately starts talking to Bob. (c) In each story in this unit, the author uses Bob explains that he is only waiting for his suspense to keep the reader interested in the plot. The suspense develops, builds, or changes friend Jimmy Wells. After the police officer as the action rises to a climax. Choose two of the stories and analyze their suspense. For each leaves, another tall man walks up to him and story, state what the reader feels suspense about and how the suspense develops, builds, says he’s Jimmy Wells. But after realizing that or changes during the course of the story. State how the suspense is resolved in each story, and it wasn’t Jimmy, Bob was caught, and he explain why the resolution was or was not realizes that the first policemen was Jimmy. surprising for you.

Answer: Another story is definitely Louise Mallard from After Twenty Years is a good example of suspense. The “Story of an Hour”. Louise Mallard discovers readers feel suspense about whether Bob and Jimmy will that her husband Brently had been killed in a meet each other and what will happen if they do. I don’t want to bore you with too many details but I can tell you that many railroad accident and she starts crying because details build suspense including the passage of time when of her husband’s death. Then her sister Bob waits for Jimmy and fails to appear; Bob lighting a match Josephine tries to comfort her by asking her to that shows his face; his conversation with the policeman. Bob also doesn’t know who the plainclothesman is until he come out of her bedroom because she might be realizes that he isn’t Jimmy Wells. making herself ill if she locks herself in her

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Richards downstairs. Then Brently walks in, and

Josephine screams. Brently didn’t expect this to happen. Louise Mallard gets so excited and overjoyed that she collapsed on the stairs and died.

(Score for Question 4: ___ of 15 points) (e) The author of each story in this unit chose a narrator who would tell the story best. Sometimes it was an omniscient narrator. Other times it was a limited narrator. Choose two stories and state which type of narrator each had. Then compare how the choice of narrator helped each story’s plot, characterizations, or theme.

Answer: I think the two narrators that would’ve told the story best was Jimmy Wells and Brently

Mallard. They both would have probably said different things, but it would probably be the same too. Both narrators in “After Twenty

Years” and “Story of an Hour” had first person point of view or first person omniscient.

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