STORIES ANALYSIS

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 • Edna
• June
• Starting a new life
• Violent life
• Fear of loneliness

EDNA BACK FROM AMERICA

BY CLARE BOYLAN
 PLOT
Edna Back From America

 Exposition: June remembers her childhood up to Muriel´s

calling

 Rising action: June is called Edna by Muriel

 Climax: When they are in the car, June decides to go along

with this lie

 Falling action: All the information that she receives about her
husband

 Resolution: There´s no resolution; the story has an open

ending
• R. Wigley
• Man in 4C • Lack of
• Scadutto tolerance
• Judgemental
• Obsesion

NEIGHBOURS
BY PAUL THEROUX
Neighbours

 Exposition: Beginning of the story: All the description of the

3 characters

 Rising action: When they go to the pub and Vics starts asking
awkard questions

Wigley´s attitude towards the narrator

 Climax: comments

The narrator goes to knock on 4C´s door to

 Falling action: complain directly. Nobody answers

 Resolution: Since Wigley left it seems that the storm trooper

is gone too
Plot 2

 Exposition: Beginning of the story: All the description of the

3 characters

When they go to the pub and Vics starts asking

 Rising action: awkard questions

The narrator goes to knock on 4C´s door to

 Climax: complain directly. Nobody answers

 Falling action:

 Resolution: Since Wigley left it seems that the storm trooper

is gone too
 Captain Campbell
 Signora Campbell
 Narrator

 Hero image
 Revealing the truth
THE HERO  Looking for
inspiration
BY JOANNA TROLLOPE
The Hero

 Exposition: Description of reasons of the writer to be in the

island

 Rising action: He finds the story of Captain Campbell

 Climax: He finds out the story is a lie

 Falling action: He goes back to the island, brings back the

book

 Resolution: He doesn´t tell theCaptain´s widow, he decides

not to write the book
 TASTE
BY ROALD DAHL

Conflict:
Man vs Man: Schoffield
and Pratt. Egos
involved.
Man vs Society:
Chauvinism.
Setting Man vs self: Mr
Place: Dinner party/London Schofield struggles
Time: 20th Century, after against himself against
WWII getting into the bet
 PLOT
Dinner party at the Schofield´s house, a special guest arrives
 Exposition: (Mr. Pratt) who is challenged by the host to bet on knowledge of
wine

As the host chooses a very rare wine their bet begins to

 Rising Actions: rise resulting in having Louise as a prize if Mr. Pratt names
the wine accurately.
Against all odds previously thought by Mr. Schofield, Mr Pratt calls
on the type of wine, from a tiny harvest is France. In horror the
 Climax:
Schofield family stares Mr. Pratt knowing that they now will have
to give their daughter´s hand for marriage to Mr. Pratt

 Falling actions: The maid approaches the table and unmasks Mr. Pratt
triumph by saying that he had left his glasses in the cellar
before dinner.

 Resolution: There isn´t a real resolution

 Theme: Doing the right thing

 Andrew Setting: Conflict:

 Irene Place: Irene´s house, Man vs Self
 Rosemary Church
 Martin Time: Day before
the wedding /
Wedding
party/years later
 Exposition: The bell rings to announce an unexpected guest, the groom, who
wanted to speak with his bride urgently, his nervousness and anxiety unease
Irene.

Rising Actions: Andrew talks about his youth and how important it is to him to
live to the fullest, which means that marriage would only act against his
freedom, as he talks Irene creams her hands patiently waiting for her turn to
talk. They both agree on Andrew going to the church the next day and make it
seem as Irene had left him waiting at the altar.

Climax: As ¨Here comes the bride¨ is sung by the church choir Andrew realizes
that Irene has come leaving him no chance or option to walk away as she walks
to the altar by her father´s side.

Falling actions: After their ¨I do´s ¨ they walk out of church as husband and
wife, Andrew faces his fears realizing that he could have made a terrible
mistake.

Resolution: Andrew and Irene live a happy and full life together.
 THE COWARD
BY V.S NAIPAUL
 Narrator
 Big Foot
 Hat
 Boyee
Setting:
 Errol
Place: Miguel Street,
Trinidad and Tobago
Conflict:
Time: American setting
 Man vs Self: in the island, 1940´s.
 Man vs Society Theme:
 Man vs Man Not judging a book by
its cover
 Exposition: All Miguel Street was afraid of Big Foot
but as time passes the myth on his violent ways began to
merge.
 Rising Actions: when the narrator gets to know his
more sensible side on a glass accident and his laughable
reaction towards a dog. During his first fights Big Foot
defeats all of his contenders as expected
 Climax: When the boxer comes to the town and
fights Big Foot, who is defeated at the end.
 Falling actions: Big Foots cries loudly and the crowd
laughs at him
 Resolution: Big Foot leaves Miguel Street,
the fighter wasn´t really a boxer
 MR KNOW-ALL
BY WILLIAM SOMERSET
 Narrator
Setting:
 Mr. Kelada Time: After WWII
 Mr. Ramsey Place: On a ship from
San Francisco to
 Mrs. Ramsey
Okinawa
Theme:
Appearances can be
deceptive

Conflict
Character vs Character

Character vs Self
 Exposition: A very outgoing Mr. Kelada interrupts a rather quiet
passenger´s life when they share a cabin in a ship, Mr. Kelada speaks about his
exclusiveness on all kinds of good difficult to obtain or prohibited during this time
in history.

 Rising Actions: Mr. Kelada talks about his keen eye on pearls and business in
general; as he keeps talking about it Mr. Ramsey dares him to guess the amount he
paid for his wife´s pearls. Always trying to keep his appearance he flatters Mrs.
Ramsey´s pearls for a while.

 Climax: Mr Kelada sets the price of the pearls on around 20, 000 US
dollars. Mr. Ramsey feels very pleased once he tells Kelada that he had only
paid 18 dollars for the pearls at a department store in NYC.

 Falling actions: Mr. Kelada write the 100.00 US dollars to Mr.

Ramsey for not guessing if the pearls were real, ashamed he leaves the
room.

 Resolution: Mr Kelada realizes that it wasn´t about the money

when Mr. Ramseys returns it to him on an envelope.
 SHARP PRACTICE
BY FREDERICK FORSYTH

 The Priest/the farmer

 Judge Comyn

 O´Connor

 Mr. Keane

Theme:
You get what you give
Conflict: Setting:
Man vs Self • Place: On a train

• Time: 1938
 Exposition: Three men are absorbed during a train trip into a game of
cards, along the journey they change strategies and raised their bets until they
arrived to destination and one of them is set to pay the highest bid.

 Rising Actions: As the game progressed all three men decided to raise the bar
and put more excitement into the game resulting in one big winner, The Priest,
who mentioned a good donation place for the money.

 Climax: Judge Comyn realizes that the person in court under his
jurisdiction was O´Connor who was being charged of misleading the game and
earnings of the card game.

 Falling actions: Judge Comyn listens to a statement made by Mr. Keane who
had been cheated in the same manner as Judge Comyn

 Resolution: Judge Comyn sees the Priest in the car/they are working
together…he was tricked!
 THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE
BY OSCAR WILDE
 Hughie Erskie
 Alan Trevor
 Laura Merton
 Colonel Merton
 The Beggar (Baron Hausberg)
 Gustave Naudin

Conflict:
Theme:
Man vs Society
Solidarity and reciprocity keeps
the world turning Man vs Self
Setting:
Place: Holland park
Time: Morning
 Exposition: Hughie feels sad for not having his girlfriend´s family
blessing for being poor, he goes to talk about it over his painter friend
Alan looking for a word of advice.

 Rising Actions: As he arrives to Alan´s studio he realizes that his friend is

working on a portrait of a beggar. He realizes that the beggar is in more need
of money than he is therefore he gives them all the money he has

 Climax: The beggar asks Alan who was the man who had just given him money
and what was his story he feels deeply touched.

 Falling actions: Hughie receives the money he needed to marry his love Laura,
Trevor tell Hughie where the money comes from

 Resolution: Hughie and Laura live happily ever after, keeping the
condition the Baron had set.