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Kalilah Floyd Grasshopper or Bell Cricket Final Draft
Kalilah Floyd Grasshopper or Bell Cricket Final Draft
Kalilah Floyd
Ms. Jacobs
Freshman Comp. 2
September 27,2017
If it were you, would you rather have a bell cricket or a grasshopper? Some may say a
grasshopper but others may say a bell cricket. In the story The Grasshopper and the Bell
Cricket, many different examples of symbolism and narration or point of view are used to help
Symbolism is a figure of speech where something has another meaning other than what it
really means. Narration/Point of View is when you find out how the story is being told. By the
author telling you the story in first person, we further understand why the person stops to give
Fujio some advice.A grasshopper and a bell cricket are used viewed in this story as symbols,
talked about in first person, and used to help the character understand.
The story begins to inform us about a man or woman walking past a field of children with
colored lanterns. The character notices a child known as Fujio building his own colored lantern
adding decorations and colors that began drawing the other kids attention. Once Fujio notices the
attention, he began yelling about finding a grasshopper. With this in mind, Fujio gives the
grasshopper to a girl named Kiyoko not realizing it was really just a bell cricket. In response,
the other children start to laugh and mock Kiyoko. Unbothered, Kiyoko shows nothing but
gratefulness for her bell cricket. In conclusion, the man or woman who was viewing the children
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gave Fujio some life advice about Kiyokos gratefulness and helped him realize the real worth of
things.
In this story, the narrator happened to be speaking in first person. Throughout the story
the narrators focus remained the same. In the beginning the speaker was just a bystander but by
the end of the story the speaker turned to a character. While giving Fujio advice, the speaker
spoke about finding a bell cricket or grasshopper but always admiring its values.
The character wants Fujio to understand, you should look deeper into things instead of
One quote from this story that represents point of view and narration is Walking along
the tile-roofed wall university, I turned aside and approached the upper school. In this quote, the
author speaks in first person singular. Repeatedly using I Yasunari Kawabata has created a
character that was never revealed as a woman or a man. Not once was a description or an age
was included.
Another quote that represented symbolism would be Oh, its not a grasshopper. Its a
bell cricket.The way this quote was written shows that the bell cricket is indeed an example of
something that is viewed as something rare. The grasshopper was used to symbolize something
that is seen as average or normal. With the advice from the speaker, Fujio viewed Kiyoko as his
bell cricket and not as an ordinary grasshopper. Just so he could express his feelings, he gave
The last quote that represented setting in this story is Not only were there crimson,green,
pink, indigo, purple, and yellow lanterns, but one lantern glowed with five colors at once. The
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author continues to explain the sight that the unknown character sees. By doing this, the author
creates a scene for you to imagine. Given this description, you know that the character sees many
different brightly colored lanterns in a field. He or she also sees many children running around
giving more of a scenery to imagine. Like I stated earlier the author is implying that Fujio knew
that what others thought was a grasshopper was really a bell cricket.
With all things considered would you have wanted a bell cricket or a grasshopper? Would
you have responded the same way as Kiyoko? In response to the details of this story, I feel like
this story was structured very well. It has a theme that states No matter what it is you should
always be grateful for it and nobody elses opinion matters. The theme is what causes the
unknown character to begin speaking to Fujio and giving him life advice.
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WORKS CITED
Booth, Alison, et al. The Grasshopper and The Bell Cricket. The Norton Introduction