1) read Death By Scrabble at http://www.short-stories.co.uk/ , you may need to use the search function.
Click here for help with this lesson: http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/elements.html
2) Answer the following questions:
a) What does the author do to make the reader feel what the man is feeling? At a minimum, explain how the author uses the element of setting to accomplish this (1 paragraph).
b) Regarding the plot, does the author use all five essential elements of plot or does he leave some out? Explain how this helps or hurts the story (1 paragraph).
c) What type and kind of conflict are found in this story (2-3 sentances)?
d) What do we know about the woman in the story? What kind of character does this make her? (2-3 sentances)
e) What is the theme of the story? Relate your answer to your own life experiances. (1 paragraph)
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Death by Scrabble
Daniel Bright
Tierrasanta
U.S. History
a. The author, Charlie Fish, focuses on how hot the room is. For example, narrator says “The heat of the sun is pushing at me through the window. I can hear buzzing insects outside.” This shows how the author uses the setting to intensify the narrator’s feelings, of anger and frustration. He also chews on his U tile to also show frustration. The narrator also describes how the steam rising from her cup of tea makes me feel hotter.
b. The plot in Death by Scrabble is unusual. There’s no real introduction,
The whole story is basically rising action and the climax is the end. There is no falling action and no denouement because the narrator dies in the climax. He got what he deserved.
c. There’s a conflict between the wife and husband while they are playing scrabble.
They both are in a conflict with each other because the husband hates the wife.
d. She is the wife. She is a static character.
e. Be careful what you wish for. “I try to make murderous words with the letters on my rack, but the best I can do is SLEEP.” In the end the power of the tiles ends up in the power of his wife.
A) To make the reader feel what the man is feeling the author or Charlie Fish tells us every little detail, he tells us what his thinking, what his wife does and how it effects him. The author uses the element of setting by making it a hot day. By making it a hot day, he explains how sweaty he is getting describing how the heat is making his anger stronger. In addition, as it gets hotter and his wife starts winning he hates her even more.
B) Yes, Charlie Fish Does use all the elements. I know this because there is a climax Resolution and All the other elements. His climax is when the character’s wife spells murder. Resolution is when he chokes and dies.
C) The conflicts that are found in this story is when his wife gives him a run for his money in the scrabble game. Also when his wife puts the kettle on because it makes him mad.
D) Me personally I can’t relate because I would never want to kill someone just for being annoying, but I have had something backfire on me like how he dies in the end when he wanted his wife to die instead.
A)The author tells how much the man hates his wife and describes how hot the room got from the sun outside and the steam from the tea makes him sweat even more.
B) It started when they were playing scrabble and how much he hates his wife, then she played jinxed and the words in the game happened. At the end he plays quake and she plays death and he chokes to death by a letter tile
C)They hate each other and they play words that describe their feelings to one another and it just so happens that the man died as a result of the game.
D) The author tells how they hate each other, external the guy was choked to death by a letter
E)Dynamic because they are people who have feelings.
F) He just tells us the readers how much they hate each other.
a) The author makes you feel what the man feels by telling every thought of the man. You can feel heat from the setting from how the author says its a blistering hot Sunday afternoon and when hes wife turns on the kettle. The narration of the story intensifys the frustration from the game and how the wife is beating the man and he starts chewing on the tile U. the author also makes you feel the murderous intent of the man when he thinks what ever the game spells for him he'll use it to kill his wife.
b) Yes, the author used all 5 elements well. He has an introduction with the settings of a hot day, in his house, with his wife, playing scrabble. The raising action is when the man is willing to kill his wife if the words spell it. The Climax of the story is when the man realises what ever is spelled happens. The falling action from knowing this and his wife using it we know the someones going die in the end and the Denouement is when the wife spells Death and the man chokes to death on the tile U he was chewing.
c) The conflict in the story is between the man and his wife playing scrabble. This is a conflict because the man hates his wife to death.
d) We know little about her then what the man says about her. This makes her a static character from always haveing a clam characteristic.
e) The theme of the story is careful for what you wish for. The man wished for his wife death by spelling a word on the game board that would kill her, but end the end she was the one who spelled death and watch him die. This doesnt relate to me because i wouldnt every want to kill someone.
a) The author uses good wording to make you feel like your him playing the game, and all the words are coming true. The words made me visualize the story happening as if I were there, and he describes his surroundings with great detail.
b) He does leave some plot out, but gives you enough info to keep you reading. Descriptive words used to bring his scrable words to life as they happen right infront of him and his wife.
c) This man seems to have a hate for his wife. He does'nt tell her through the whole story, but he describes his hate in words. As he plays he starts to think his scrables words are coming to life, and everything he spells comes true. So him and his wife spell out their words and eventually he ends up choking to death on his scrable peice.
d) We don't know alot about the woman besides the fact that her husband of 10 years is not so fond of her now. She plays scrable the whole time besides turning on the ac and making a cup of tea.
e) I don't know what kind of theme this is, but id say its a unusal kind of story with a tragedy in the end that you never see coming.
Maybe its a sad theme or a funny one. It depends on how you look at it.
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