Se "Hey, You Down Th =e 1ere’ Bea CSU RaESE this sisi Mak : eee ’ Make notes on: Seas Calvin's appearance and actions i. + how Calvin speaks to Dora . Dora's feelings about Calvin. Extract 1 Calvin Spender drained his coffee cu i i. with the back of his hand, He burped lousy, iped his mouth Dora Spender sat across the table from her husband, her pane made 3 breakfast scarcely touched. She coughed light! Beae OY feleasing ead due your aohaiaaie ighed lightly, and then she air through moog, in the well this mornin ), Calvi a Calvin fixed his small red immed eyes upon eee ee ee Pulling she had not spoken, said, ‘Git going at the chores right away. tieWhasre You're going to be hauling up dirt? Imp at the front part of the ‘Yes, Calvin,’ Dora whispered. Calvin cleared his throat, and throat (usually the action caused his Adam's apple to move rapidly under the more noticeable loose red skin on his neck. He rose from the table and went in men) out of the kitchen door, kicking viciously at the tawny cat tawny: a yellow which had been lying on the doorstep. brown colour Dora gazed at him and wondered for the thousandth time spring to what it was that Calvin reminded her of. It was not some her mind: be other person. It was something else. Sometimes it seemed suddenly reali as though the answer was about to spring to her mind, as by her __ just now when Calvin had cleared his throat. But always it | just short of her consciousness. Some day though, knew, the answer would come to her. She rose hurriedly m the table and set about her chores. focal characts the character 5 fo Fi js who the read Writers decide how to ‘position’ characters in stories. There understands will often be a focal character who the writer wants the reader empathises \ to understand and sympathise with. In this story, most readers the most in a sympathise with Dora. In pairs, discuss why you think this is.<<" Part of the Story. Extract 2 Halfway ly ber doughnut. shores the house and the barn, a Ghole, Coli eed Mound of earth surrounded Bieeidcwe ‘ent to the edge of the hole and Ech wn into it distastefully, Only necessity ace anove forced him to tackle this task, but it ae ler this digging or the hauling of barrels ca ee of water each day from Nord Fisher's a mile down the road. SS For two weeks now, ever since his well hai gone dry, Calvin had been hauling water,“and the disagreeable chore was becoming more unpleasant because of neighbor Nord’s hints that some kind of payment distastefully. ‘ for the water would only be fair._ a look or fegs Several feet back from the edge of the hole, Calvin had driven of unpleasen a heavy iron stake into the ground, and to this was attached a stake: a pos tying things crude rope ladder. Calvin hoped desperately that he would not have to go much further. He estimated that he was now down fifty or sixty feet. Calvin picked up a bucket to which was attached a long rope and lowered it into the hole. It was Dora's backbreaking task to pull the bucket hand over hand after Calvin had filled it from the bottom of the hole. By the time he got to the bottom of the hole and had filled the bucket, Dora should be there to haul it up. If she weren't, she would hear about it. From the house, Dora saw Calvin prepare to enter the well and she worked with desperate haste to complete her chores. She reached the hole just as a muffled shout from below indicated that the bucket was full. Summoning all her strength, Dora hauled the bucket up. She emptied it and then lowered it into the hole again. While she waited for the second bucket load, she examined the contents of the first. No water seeped from it. crude: basic roughly ma muffled: ¢g and not ab be heard cRead the next part of the story “Hey, Yo, Extract 3 In her own way, Dora was deeply religious and at bucket she pulled up she murmured an urgent pvanaen would contain more water in it than earth: On this particular morning as she lowered the bucket forits _ | tenth loading, she prayed, ‘Please let something hooper (ing time... Let something really and truly happen sol won't have to haul up any more dirt. Something happened almost immediately. As the Tope slackened in her hands indicating that the bucket had reached e the bottom. a scream of sheer terror came up from the hole, became less tightly bound } and the rope ladder jerked violently, Dore teh her knees an ked: peered down into the darkness. ‘Calvin, she called, ‘are you ol quiely | ) right? What is it?” ‘ u surge: a powerful Then with startling suddenness, Calvin appeared, At first Dora movement | was not sure it was Calvin. The usual redness of his face was | talk to gone; now it was a yellowish green. He was trembling violently and had trouble breathing. ‘It must have been a heart attack,’ Dora thought, and tried hard to control the surge of joy that came over her. Calvin lay upon the ground, panting. Finally he gained control of himself. Under ordinary circumstances, Calvin did not se with Dora but now he seemed eager to talk. “You know what happened? The complete bottom dropped right out of the hole. All of a sudden it went, and there | was, standing on nothing but air. If | hadn't grabbed a hold of the last rung of the ladder... Why, that hole must be 9 thousand feet the way the bottom dropped out of it!” Calvin babbled on, but Dora didn't listen. She was amazed at the remarkable way in which her Prayer had been answered. 'f the hole had no more bottom, there would be no more dirt to haul up.jnpairs, swap your sentences and assess how accurate te they are. Has your partner used commas in the right places? {Ig the conjunction in the right place? Is ita compound-complex sentence? ow read the nest part of the story. Calvin has tied @ flashlight Pp A a flashlight to the lend of a line of Tope. ght to Extract 4 : Z He tied the flashlight securely to the end of the line, switched i released, lowered {gn and lowered it into the hole. ne one ble: weak He P ¢the line for about @ hundred feet and then ag \ stopped. The light was only a feeble glimmer down below and sak \ yield: to give way revealed nothing. .d the light another hundred feet and this ime it was only a twinkling speck as it swung at the thd of the fine. Calvin released another long length ¢f'ewine and another and another and now the light, = {ios no longer visible, and the large ball of twine had shrunk to a small tangle. thousand feet,’ he whispered in awe. Calvin lowere ‘Almost a full ‘and no bottom yet. Might as well pull it up’ But the line did not come up with Calvin's pull. It stretched and grew taut, but it did not yield to his tugging. omething,’ Calvin muttered, harp jerk. In reply there was it almost tore the line from his ‘Must be caught on st and gave the line a st ‘a downward jerk that hands. ‘Hey! yelled Calvin. ‘The line... it jerked! and write your own spoken drama version of “Hey, eta | conversation You Down There’ Extract 4. Your audience will be your classmates, est. Will you need to add between two or | so think about how to engage their inte extra ”. What sound effects could you create? Think about more people oF ie | characters, written impact you want to have ce. the impact you want to have on your audience. ceded peed 4 Inpairs, plan ey