Exercise Questions p. 6
1. The North Wind has more of an aggressive personality. The Sun has more of a patient and analytical personality. They are both competitive and strong-willed.
2. The North Wind’s method for attempting to strip the man of his cloak was ineffective because he was trying to force the man to do something using physical force instead of providing the man with a reason and motive for doing it.
3. The Sun’s method was effective because he used a tactful persuasion strategy, he did not use literal force like the North Wind.
4. The human was used in this dispute to determine who was stronger.
5. The Sun used a persuasive method to prove his strength which was better than the North Wind’s physical and forceful strength.
Exercise Questions p. 8
1. The first sentence is the exposition of the story because it is the opening portion that sets the scene and introduces the main characters. Chuang Tzu uses one sentence to set up the dramatic situation.
2. The protagonist, Chuang Tzu changes the subject and mentions the sacred tortoise to answer the Officials question about coming to work for his Highness in a philosophical and interpretative meaning. He doesn’t answer it directly and immediately because he wanted to explain his answer in a way that they would understand it. Yes, because he was already prepared with an explanation of the answer about the tortoise.
3. The protagonist‘s, Chuang Tzu, personality is mainly that he is content with his current situation in life. He is also humorous and intelligent.
Exercise Questions p. 19
1. The details relating to the woman who is the “cash-register-watcher.” Also the very detailed description of the entire supermarket and the aisles and products that he fully describes. This close attention to detail contributes greatly to the story because the reader can imagine everything about the scene and the setting of where it takes place.
2. Updike draws the character of Sammy completely by telling the story through Sammy himself and his opinions and thoughts. Sammy shows the traits of being sympathetic, understanding, and heroic because he was willing to stand up for something that was wrong in his opinion. Sammy is more thoroughly portrayed than the Doctor because the story itself is told through Sammy himself and the readers are able to see what happens through Sammy’s eyes.
3. The first two sentences are the exposition because it sets the scene of the story, at a supermarket, and introduces the main characters, the three girls in bathing suits and Sammy, the cash register worker. The detailed portrait of Queenie is very valuable to the story because it makes you sympathetic towards her because you get to know her character so well and then she is embarrassed by the store manager.
4. Yes, at first he is judgmental about the three girls by describing just their looks and his opinion of what they might be like. Then he turns sympathetic towards them and feels obligated to become their hero.
5. The conflict becomes apparent when Lengel says, “Girls, this isn’t the beach.” The crisis becomes apparent when Queenie is explaining why they came into the store and Lengel just repeats the comment about it not being a beach. The climax of the story is when Sammy says he quits to Lengel.
6. Sammy quits his job because his manager, Lengel, handles the situation of the three girls in a wrong way according to Sammy. He felt that he should stand up for those girls and his belief so he quit his job.
7. No, nothing made me believe Sammy would ultimately become sympathetic towards the girls. When she takes the money out and he says he thought it was so cute.
8. That Sammy quits his job at the A & P out of sympathy towards the girls that were wrongfully embarrassed. Because he was going to have to look for a new job.
9. When he compares supermarket society to sheep.
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