Aulia Maghfirah Ramadhani

200512502039

English Literature C 2020

Assigment-analyzing short story

1. Make a synopsis by your own language about your short story/novel that have
you read.
Synopsis
Turned is a short story that has three character that is Mr. Marroner who married
with Mrs. Marroner and they have a young lady as their maid. They took great care
of her, looked after her and Mrs. Marroner liked Gerta so much until that one time
Mrs. Morrener accidentally found a letter from her husband where the letter was
addressed to Gerta, and there Mrs. Marroner started to lose her empathy for Gerta
but after Mrs. Marroner thought again it wasn't Gerta's fault the poor girl was just a
victim of her husband's arrogance.

2. ANALYZE THE INSTRINSIC ELEMENTS OF YOUR SHORT STORY/ NOVEL BY

FOLLOWING THESE QUESTIONS ,THEN MENTION (WORDS/SENTENCE)AND
EXPLAIN IT
1. Setting 

Setting is a description of where and when the story takes place. In a short story
there are fewer settings compared to a novel. The time is more limited.
To analyze these setting for your short story/novel, you must have the answer to the
following questions:
·     1a) How is the setting created? Consider geography, weather, time of day, social
conditions, etc.
= a. Geography: Boston, America, Mr. Marroner house
b. Weather: Summer, Rain, spring
c. Time: conditions in the past, day and night
d. Social Conditions: social class
·    2a)   What role does setting play in the story? Is it an important part of the plot or
theme? Or is it just a backdrop against which the action takes place?
= yes, it is an important of the plot because it’s the role relate to the story
·   3a)When was the story written?
= In 1911
·   4a)Does it take place in the present, the past, or the future?
= it take place in the past
·    5a)How does the time period affect the language, atmosphere or social
circumstances of the short story?
= I think its because of era changes and the thoughts of people in the past and
present are different, people in the past still considered class differences to be very
important, such as servants should not be with the employer.
2. Characters and Characterization

Characters (both major and minor) are what bring life to a story. Writers use them to
transcend important messages throughout the plotline. 
Characterization deals with how the characters in the story are described. In short
stories there are usually fewer characters compared to a novel. They usually focus
on one central character or protagonist. Every character has a purpose, a particular
personality, and a developmental arc. 
To analyze these characters for your short story, you must have the answer to the
following questions:

 2a)Who is the protagonist?

= Mrs. Marroner and Greta ( bcs she’s a victim)

 2b)Do you have your antagonist? If yes, who is it? What antagonistic
qualities do they have?

= Mr Marroner, he cheated his wife and take advantage of Gerta's

innocence.

 2c)Are the characters dynamic (changing) or static (unchanging)?

explain dan mention

= I think it’s dynamic because in the first story or paragraph I thought Mr.
Morroner is kind and a loyal husband but when I read until the end it
turns out that he’s bad (antagonist) because he is cheated his wife.

2d)How does the author describe the character's appearance, personality,

mindset, actions?

 2e)What are your thoughts, feelings, or opinions about the characters?

= After read the story I think the character of Mr. Marroner is a little bit
weak and character Mr. Morroner here is not so described and make
the characters looks bore. Mrs. Marroner has the character of a strong
woman, how she faces the fact that her husband has an affair with a
maid who she has cared for and cared for like her own daughter and
how she calm down her emotion and put the empathy first over
everything. Gerta, I think at first she was an antagonist too because she
has and affair with Mr. Marroner but it turns out that she just a victim,
she was a key points of the beginning of the conflict.
  2f)What is the relationship between all the characters?

= Mr. Marroner married with Mrs. Marroner and they have maid who are
like their own children

 2g) Are the main character and other characters described through

dialogue – by the way they speak (dialect or slang for instance)?
= Yes, the characters described through the diaologues, I think yes,
maybe they uses a dialect.
3.Plot

The plot is the main sequence of events that make up the story. In short stories the
plot is usually centered around one experience or significant moment. 
Consider the following questions:

 3a) What is the most important event?

= when Mrs. Marroner found a letter and run away from home with
Gerta

 3b) How is the plot structured? Is it linear, chronological or does it move

around?

= Chronological

 3c) Mention and explaian the steps of plot: the exposition,rising action,
climax and resolution.

= exposition, when Mr. Marroner has an affair with Greta without his wife
knowing.

Rising action, when Mr. Marroner leave the house

Climax: When Mrs. Marroner found out the letter and know her
husband's secret

Resolution: she left the house and never came back until her husband
looked for her and her husband regretted what he did

4. Narrator and Point of view

The narrator is the person telling the story.  Consider this question: Are the narrator
and the main character the same?
By point of view we mean from whose eyes the story is being told. Short stories tend
to be told through one character’s point of view. The following are important
questions to consider:

 4a) Who is the narrator or speaker in the story?

 = The Author

 4b) Does the author speak through the main character?

= I think yes, because the story based of the author experienced at that
time and she put her thoughts on feminism in a story, the issues that
occur in the story are the contents of the author's head

 4c) Is the story written in the first person “I” point of view?

= No, the authors doesn’t uses the first person point of view

 4d) Is the story written in a detached third person “he/she” point of view?

= Yes, authors uses the third-person point of view to tell the story

4e) Is there an “all-knowing” third person who can reveal what all the
characters are thinking and doing at all times and in all places?

=Yes, there an “all-knowing” third person who can reveal what all the
characters are thinking and doing at all times and in all places

5. Conflict

Conflict or tension is usually the heart of the short story and is related to the main
character. In a short story there is usually one main struggle.

 5a) How would you describe the main conflict?

= The main conflict of the story clearly when the Mrs. found out about
the letter. Mrs. Marroner heart must be so hurt found out her husband
cheating behind her with the one and only maid that she took cared of.

 5b) Is it an internal conflict within the character?

= Yes, it is internal conflict because after found out her husband letter,
Mrs. Marroner confused to make decisions when he has to kick Gerta
out of the house or forgive her and take Gerta’s away with her.

 5)Is it an external conflict caused by the surroundings or environment

the main character finds himself/herself in?

= No.

6. Theme

The theme is the main idea, lesson, or message in the short story. It may be an
abstract idea about the human condition, society, or life. Ask yourself:

 6a)How is the theme expressed?

 = woman power, emotion, social class

 6b)Are any elements repeated and therefore suggest a theme?

= No, there’s no repeated elements.

 6c)Is there more than one theme?

= yes.

7. Style

The author’s style has to do with the his or her vocabulary, use of imagery, tone, or
the feeling of the story. It has to do with the author’s attitude toward the subject. In
some short stories the tone can be ironic, humorous, cold, or dramatic.

 7a)Is the author’s language full of figurative language?

= Yes, the authors usea figurative language because the story is based
on people life in that era full of people who looked down on women. So
the story relates to people who lived at that time

 7b)What images are used?

= representation, ” In her uncarpeted, thin−curtained, poorly furnished

chamber on the top floor ”, “Her braided wealth of dead gold hair, her grave
blue eyes, her mighty shoulders and long”

 7c)Does the author use a lot of symbolism? Metaphors (comparisons

that do not use “as” or “like”) or similes (comparisons that use “as” or
“like”)?

= Yes, the author use similies, “She had come like a meek young goddess”

“ like a flood rising around a house.”, “ like the remote smile on the face of the
dead.”, “ like a tall Madonna, bearing a baby in her arms.”

8. Author’s Life

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born July 3, 1860, in  in Hartford, Connecticut, United
States. Gilman was known as utopian feminist, she was called for women to gain
economic independence. When she was young, she was abandoned by her father.
And she moved with her mom and they lived mostly in poverty. Gilman attended
the Rhode Island School of Design for two years.

When she 24, she married with and the following year bore their only child,
Katharine Beecher Stetson. But their marriage didn't go well, and they got
divorced due to Gilman's diagnosed illness.
 After that Gilman moved with her daughter to Pasadena, California, where
she began her professional life writing plays and poetry as well as fiction and
non-fiction works. And one of her famous work are “ The Yellow Wallpaper”
which is its her the all-time best selling book of the Feminist Press that wrote on June, 1890.
in 1932, Gilman was diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer. Then Gilman was found to
have ended her life due to a chloroform overdose on August 17, 1935 at the age of 75 years.

9.Historical Background

Charlotte Perkins Gilman  was known as a writer, lecturer, economist, and theorist and
she was a social activist who fought for women's domestic rights and women's suffrage in
the early 1900s.

10.Cultural Background

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a humanist and she believes that patriarchal beliefs that
are upheld by society through the domestic environment can oppress women.

11.Social Background

The nobility, the rich, and the poor