Monday, 4 March 2013

G. Tone questionnaire Like the sun


1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?

Answer Author attitude toward action is to let people telling the truth.

2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, or experience anger or fear?

Answer The story is not frightening also not tragic but it gave us a good lesson to telling the truth. The author does not want me to laugh or cry but want me to feel happy to tell the truth.

3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike,trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?

Answer The author attitude toward the character is a curious guy want to know everything. The author like the character.

symbolism questionaire: Like the sun


1. What are some of the symbols in the story?

Answer The symbol of the story is the sun.

2.Are these any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?

Answer The sun mean the truth that people always not admit it and always not look at the sun directly.

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?

Answer Actually this story is short so no one act like the symbol or the truth in the story.

4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?

Answer No the aspect of the story's setting not seem like the sun.

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?

Answer Yeah this symbol use throughout the story.

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Like the sun: D. Point of View

 1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?

Answer The story use first point of view.  The narrator is one of the character in the story. He refers to himself as I.

2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?

Answer The advantage of chosen the point of view is the feeling of reader will not be the same. Yes it furnish the purpose of the story.

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliabe? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?

Answer Yes the narrator reliable. He has knowledge and understand events in the story. The narrator know almost everything except the truth of some character.

4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?

Answer No the author does not use point of view to reveal.Yes he has hold important information about the truth of his wife, friends and head master.

like the sun imageny questionaire


1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in you reading of the story?

Answer The scene where sekhar telling that his wife cooking so suck and wife shock but the wife does not do anything.

2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?

Answer The paricular picture make me happy, because he telling all the truth that headmaster singing very bad  and headmaster not punish him.

3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?

Answer I got appealed in touch sense and vision sense. I think the author want other people to know that no one can hide the truth just like no one can look directly at the sun a for long time.


4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?

Answer It will tell how brave sekhar is to tell all the truth to everyone without scaring that they will be sad.

Like the sun characters questionaire

1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?

Answer: Sekhar look like a tall guy with black hair and tan skin color

2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?

Answer:  Sekhar live in some place in Africa. He lives with his wife. Sekhar has a job as teacher. Sekhar depend on school support.

3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances. their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?

Answer  Sekhar is a skeptic person. The characteristics reveal when sekhar use one whole day to tell the truth to everyone. Sekhar interact with his wife, head master and other people. The degree of complexity is 0. The attitude of him is to tell the truth. He is happy all the time.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?

Answer: The conflict sekhar is facing is telling the truth to his wife and head master. The conflict revealed by telling the truth to his wife and head master.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible cange for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?

Answer: The character does not developing his character.

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

like the sun plot questionaires

1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?


Answer  The story was about sekhar, a teacher is thinking that everyone avoiding the truth. The main event is sekhar tell the truth to everyone.

2.Are the main events of the story arranged chronologicallym, or are they arranged in another way?

Answer Yes the main event arranged in chronologically.

3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?

Answer The story narrated by sekhar telling the story. No flashbacks.

4.Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?

Answer The story plot is very fast-paced.

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?

Answer The thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move by telling the truth to everyone.

6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?

Answer: The conflict is sekhar is scare to tell the truth to headmaster. The conflict resolve by telling the truth to masterhead.

7.what is the climax of the and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved

Answer: The climax of the story is sekhar spend one day to tell all the truth to everyone. The climax happen in the middle of the story. The ending is happy ending. It is fairly achieved.

8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes revelant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?

Answer: The plot have unity. All episode have meaning same as the story name.

9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurences used to initiate , to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?

Answer: There is no coincidence in this short story. No improbable in this story

Book title: Like the sun