The Crowning of Arthur: Question

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 Arthur,how he was born, taken care of, and how did he pulled the sword out. The main events is probably the tournament, in which one's must pulled the sword out to be the king, and Arthur did and become the king.

2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
It is arranged chronologically(in order), because the story starts from the past in which King Uther likes Igraine and they both have a son. Later, when the Arthur,the son, was grown he pulled out the sword and was crowned the king.

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

The story "The Crowning of Arthur" was basically a summarize version of "Le Morte d' Arthur", the book basically contained far more pages the story "The Crowning of Arthur". There's no flashback.

4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
It is fast-paced because the story itself comes from Le Morte d' Arthur as I mentioned, so this summarized version needs to be compressed and so it is a fast-paced.

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

The thoughts of King Uther is probably the one moving the plot forward, the liking that he have to Igraine. The next thought is that the king let Merlin take the child away as a reward. The last is probably the thought of having a tournament of pulling a sword to be the king of Britain.

6. 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 conflict is King Uther died and there is no king, by deciding who should be the king they set a tournament of pulling the sword. They're physical because no one have a strength enough to pulled out the sword. But when Arthur did pulled out the sword the conflict was resolved and he was decided to be a king.

7. 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 indereminate? Is it faily achieved?

The Climax is when Arthur pulled out the sword from the stone. The story ends happily because Arthur was crowned to be a king of Britain.

8. 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?
The plot is unity, it is relevant because it relates to the ending of the story, the plot leads naturally to the next stage.

9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they? 
The story is make of chance because the sword is pulled out of chance as the book mentioned "no nobles could pulled out the sword", but Arthur did so it is a pure chance. Yes, the story resolve when Arthur pulled out the sword successfully.

The Crowning of Arthur by: Sir Thomas Malory

A Tale of Two Cities: Reflection

I was a guy who hate reading book, lazy, and love something that has nothing to do with my thinking. But when I first start reading this book called "A Tale of Two Cities" written by Charles Dickens, a famous writer who live on the 80s and wrote many popular book, recommended by my friends. I started feeling that reading book is not that boring. By reading this book I get to know about what is the real meaning of "LOVE".

This book is most likely about love. In Thai they would called it love triangle in which a guy loves the women but the women instead loves the other guy. This book also told me something important that is about sacrifices. Carton sacrifices himself to save Darnay because of the love he had with the female character Lucie Manette. Having sacrifices in this story make the story felt gloomy something like that.

I dislike the story a bit because of the ending. The story end in a sad way I think because Carton sacrifices himself to save Darnay. I doesn't know that people think the same way as me or not, but the ending I like to have is that both Darnay, Carton, and Lucie are still alive and live happily after. But instead the story ends with sacrifices which results in sadness.

Even though, I dislike the story a bit but I would like to read it again. The most part of the story are interested with adventures and romantic parts. I would like to recommend this book also to my friend to read because is very exciting. By reading this book I've overcome my laziness, and the feeling about hating book. So all I would like to said is that this book is very exciting and you won't regret after reading this book. 

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A Tale of Two Cities: Characters Description

Describing the goals, dreams, and motives behind a main characters:

Lucie Manette – An ideal lady, perfect in every way. She was loved by both Carton and Charles Darnay. She marries Darnay and had a daughter. She is the "golden thread" after the Book Two is named, she is called because she holds her father's and her family's lives together (and because of her blond hair like her mother's). She also ties nearly every character in the book together.

Charles Darnay – A young French noble of the Evrémonde family. In disgust of the cruelty of his family to the French family, he has taken on the name "Darnay" (after his mother's maiden name, D'Aulnais) and left France to England. He show an honesty in his decision to reveal to Doctor Manette his true identity as a member of the  Evrémonde family. 

Sydney Carton – A quick-minded man, loves drinking alcohol, lazy, his existence is a waste of life and takes every opportunity to tell that he cares for nothing and no one. But later he changed and changed as the story continues. The final part is that Carton sacrifices his life to Darnay by swaping his place with him. So this means that he worth something that is important.

Dr. Alexandre Manette – Lucie's father, kept as a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years and later found by Lucy and Mr. Lorry at the Defarge house. He make shoes to covered up his feeling in prison. As the story continues Dr. Manette have become kind and gentle father to Lucy.

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Four events: 1. Mr. Lorry met Lucy at the trainstation

                    2. Lucy and Mr. Lorry met Dr. Manette, who was a shoe maker.

                    3. Darnay was accused of being a traitor.

                    4. Carton sacrifices his life to save Darnay.

Interviewing Teacher: Mr.Ian