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The Crowning of Arthur: Symbolism

1. What are some of the symbols in the story?


The round table and the sword.

2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?


Arthur's sword symbolize the king. Sword means to cut so it would represent strength, power, protection, honor, and confidence. Those is the qualities of being a king. 

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?

Arthur, he represent honor, power, talent, and the qualities of being a new king.


4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?


The palace, it symbolizes that the story take place during an ancient time, which during that time they had a war. 

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?

Only one symbol is used throughout the story.

The Crowning of Arthur: Tone Question

1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?

The author tried to make us excited during Arthur pulling the sword up, whether he could pulled it out or not. Then the author made us happy because Arthur pulled the sword out successfully and was crowned a king.

2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, to experience anger or fear?

The story is a story that made the reader happy it is not funny or sad or scary. The author want us to feel happy about Arthur being a new king.

3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?

The author like the characters and trust the character. As seen from the part which Arthur pulled the sword up and was crowned a new king.

The Crowning of Arthur: Imagery Questionaires

1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
The scene when Arthur pulled out the sword successfully, this constributes me that Arthur is now a new king and I'm happy with him.

2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
The scene makes me happy because if theres no king it would be a jeopardy and chaos. People would be selfish competing to get the title of king. So I feel happy that the problem is resolved.

3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
The picture is in the book in ...page. The image show me that Arthur is pulling the sword out of the stone. This picture contributes me that he is powerful and full with spirit just like God is helping him to be a new king.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
It makes me excited that he would pulled out the sword successfully or not, it makes me cheer on Arthur side.

The Crowning of Arthur: Point of View Questionaires

1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told form a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?

The story is a third-person perspective view because in the story there is no the word I or you in the story and the story is like a parable which was told like a make story, a fiction, so it is the third- person perspective.

2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
The advantages are that the story could be told in fiction story and he could told many events at once.

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
I think that the narrator is reliable. He does hve a complete understanding of the story and explain the event clearly. He also explain the role of the character well and explain the character thought by action which is good. As a reader I find that this story is very easy because the narrator wrote the story with good explanation so I get full understanding.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
The author use the point of view to reveal, he doesn't withhold the any information because in the story I read there is not secret.

The Crowning of Arthur: Characters Questionaires

1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
The main characters were King Uther as a father, Igraine as a mother, and Arthur as a son. The sub-character are Sir Ector as a person who take care of Arthur when he was young, Merlin an unknown guy who guide King Uther toward marriage. King Uther probably look like a normal king with yellow hair and beard. Igraine as the story mentioned she is a beautiful and gentle women. Arthur, the son, surely looked like a combination of Igraine and King Uther, he is a mature guy with a good shape and yellow hair like his father.


2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live? Does he/she live alone with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
King Uther is a king so he live in a palace at Britain, Igraine is a women who live in Tintagil but when she married King Uther she move to his palace at Britain. Arthur live in Sir Ector home at Britain, Arthur does not do any job because he was in the care of Sir Ector family entrusted by the king.

3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes, and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
King Uther, as the story mentioned he falled in love with Igraine which was the Duke wife this represent that he is a selfish guy because as a King he would want anything. Igraine, the wife of the Duke, when the Duke died she married King Uther this represent that she is not faithful to her husband who passed away. Arthur, the son, sure is a good guy because when his brother told him that he have no sword, Arthur rushed to find the sword and with his strength pulled the sword out of the stone.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how? The conflict is that there is no one to be the king when the previous king passed away. The tournament of pulling the sword was then created to find who would be the right king. The problem is resolved when Arthur pull out the sword which was stuck in the stone and was made a new king.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?

King Uther and Igraine was not a developing character. But Arthur is, by pulling the sword he was made the King and this is a large change to the status of Arthur class. From a medium class to the most powerful class.

The Crowning of Arthur: 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 "The Crowning of Arthur" take place in Great Britain, England. 
Setting:
 -Great Britain: the place where King Uther lives.
 -Tintagil: the place where Igraine lives.

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

This story take place in 500 A.D., Medieval Period. The season of the year or the date of the month is unknown.

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

The story mostly is about upper class, the king's class. But there is some part in which Arthur was adopted by an upper-middle class family, Sir Ector family. But mostly the story take place as an upper class level.

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.

A Tale of Two Cities: Cover Page

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

Timeline

The Event Pictures

This picture represent when Mr. Lorry is waiting Ms. Manette at the London Subway



This picture above represent when Mr. Darnay was in the court for being accused of traitor.

This picture represent when Mr. Darnay and Ms. Lucie had a wedding.

This picture represent when Darnay and the Manette were in airplane to France.



A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #4

Hearing that her husband, Darnay, has been captured in prison. They rushed to Paris to save him together with her daughter, Mr. Lorry and Dr. Manette. Dr. Manette claim himself to be a victim of this incident and told the people that Darnay was innocence, and so Darnay was free from prison.

When Madame Defarge heard about that, she seeks to revenge for her sister that was molestered and her brother that was killed by the Evremonde family, the family that is a relative to Darnay's family. Because of that Madame Defarge accused Darnay and he was again rearrested and was sentence to death. 

Now there was no hope of saving him. Even Lucie's and her daughter was in danger because of the Revolution in France. Mr. Sydney was also their in France because his love to Lucies he traveled with her to France. The story told that Mr. Sydney later sacrifices himself to Darnay by entering the prison, drugs Darnay, and with the help of Mr. Lorry, Darnay was carried out of the prison. Sydney sacrifices was made to fulfill his promise to Lucie about his love.

The last part of the story mention that Madame Defarge was shot dead while she was going to arrest Lucie and the other by Mr. Pross. Now, Darnay and the Manette altogether return to England safely. Mr. Sydney didn't feel any regret about his action and know that he would be in Lucie's family heart forever. =)

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #3

Chapter:5-11

Now, year have pass and both Darnay and Sydney Carton fell in love in Lucie Manette. Carton is a lawyer who wastes his life in drinking, wasting his life, and idling. They first met at the court where Darnay was accused of being a traitor. Carton love Lucie with all his love, and so later he confessed his love to her but Lucie, which got no interest on Carton, turn him down. Lucie which got a flavor to Darnay later married each other.

On the wedding day, as he promise to Dr. Manette that he would tell the secret if he let her daughter marries him. He then reveals himself of being a French aristocrat who would claim his inheritance and now lives in London under a given name and works as a tutor their. His uncle, Marquis St. Evremonde, is a cruel man known for his callousness. He has no respect on human life. The story mentioned that when he was driving home from a meeting he kills a boy on the streets and refuses to help a poor widow in need of a tombstone for her husband's grave. That night he was murdered in his bed. 

The French Revolution broke out in fury of the Bastille. In London, Darnay has been happily married to Lucie for eleven years, and they have a beautiful daughter. Hearing that Gabelle, his servant in France, has been arrested, Darnay secretly returns to Paris to save him. But instead, he was caught being a noble man and was imprisoned. 

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #2

Chapter 6 pg(49-61)

Now they had a conversation with Dr. Manette. First Dr. Manette think that Lucie was her wife because of her yellowish hair color and a scraped necklace. Also the last thing he saw before he was imprison is his wife face but now he is free but can't remember his wife face clearly but he has aged. Now the truth is that Dr. Manette(the shoe maker) was her father.

Book: two
Chapter 1-4pg (63-103)

Five years later,the setting was in the tellson's bank, an ugly building, the employee working in their was quite old and were very conservative. One of them was Jerry Cruncher a mail messenger. The book told that he was sick and now lying on the bed, later he scolded and did some violent thing to the wife telling that her prayer was like a curse on him. After that, he was called by one of the Tellson's bank messengers.

When he arrived at the at the Tellson's bank, the secretary there told him to go to the court, Old Baily, and waited for Mr. Lorry there and gives a message letter to him. When he arrive at the court he was ammused by the gigantic amount of spectator outside the court.

When he went inside the court he saw a prisoner, Charles Darnay, Charles was accuse of being a traitor to George III, the king of England. Charles job was to get the information about what forces the English have and send it to the Canada, but instead according to the book he sell the secret information to France and so now Charles was put in the court. Lucie was testified by the detective about the prisoner, she told that the first time she met him was five years ago, when she was crossing the England to France. There Lucie met Charles and he provided her a shelter. After telling everything to the Detective, Charles Darnay was justify as innocent and was free from the court.

After the judgement, everyone congratulate for Charles of being innocence, and he fall in love with Lucie Manette, daughter of Dr. Manette, and he kisses her hand. After Dr. Manette saw that he start to dislike Charles, and also Mr. Carton does.

A Tales of Two Cities: Summary #1

Chapter 1-5 (pg.4- 48)

The story begins around 1775, in England and France. On that period it's the best of time and also the worst of time in England. On that time England was worries about the religious, prophecies, a paranormal phenomena about ghost

The story starts at Friday night on the late November of 1775, when the main character Mr. Jarvis Lorry went for a trip with his passengers, a man in a horse appeared. First the three of them taught that the man was a robber but Darvis remember the voice and accepted the letter. After receiving the letter from the his messenger, he read it. The letter told that he should be going to Dover,England to meet a young women called " Ma'am Selle".

The next morning, after finish packing his cloth at the Royal George hotel where he stay for a night, he waited for her to came at the train station. Later, a waiter there announces that Lucie Mannette has arrived. He then approaches to her as a business man but later tell her the reason why he came to meet her. He told her that her father was free from the prison years ago and was now cared by his servant. So they go to Paris to his father servant house.

After arriving to Monsieur Defarge, a wine seller and a servant, in Paris. Lorry and Lucie ask him to meet with Lucie's father (Doctor Mannette) first Defarge didn't allowed but after telling that Lucie is her daughter he allowed. When they arrived at the fifth floor, they were shocked to see Doctor Mannette that he has aged much more than they've imagined and so they started their conversation to Doctor Mannette.