Imagery

1. What scenes, moment, descriptive, passage, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
Answer: The odd thing is that we do not even really believe that the man in the water lost his fight. “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature,”

2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
Answer: It make me feel peaceful and acceptable in my heart. The phrase just really show the natural of the nature as it said.

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:The senses that I feel are touch and hearing. I can feel the coldness of the water and people scream and a helicopter flying in a distant. I think he want us to feel the coldness that the man in the water face.

4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
Answer: I think that it show what the author really want us to feel. My reaction are sad and I feel that faith in humanity was restored

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 "T"? 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: It was the second person point of view. The story was narrated by the author himself.

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 to this point of view is that the author can express himself freely as the narrater. He can use his own feeling toward each of them which can make them look more realistic.

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? 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: The narrator in this story is very reliable. He is the author itself too. I think that the narrator knows the charactor well. I'm sure he was told cleary by other people who were involved in that incident.

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: The author used point of view primarily to reveal. He never unfairly withhold important information.

Character

       

1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
Answer: The man in the water. Baldy, in his 50's, an extravagant moustache

2. Describe the main character's situation. Where 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: He was helping everyone that is drowning in the water. There's no information given about the man in the water.

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: He is an old and kind man. His characteristic was cleary shown in this story he was helping everyone to survive from the disaster. His attitude toward his life is also cleary shown in the story. He know that he would not survive if he kept on helping other, so in the end he let himself drown in the cold water.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
Answer : The main conflict in this story is the disaster that happens in Potomac River. The conflict was revealed by the rescuer name Donald Usher and Eugene Windsor. At the end the man in the water die and everyone was safe because of him.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
Answer: There is no developing character in this story. Everything in the story really point to the old guy or the man in the water.

Plot Questionaries

1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
Ans: It is about a man who drove the airplane but then landed in a river. He was saving everyone in the Potomac River. He throw out lifeline and flotation ring to help everyone to get in the helicopter. Then he let himself drown because the helicopter is full.

2. Are tha main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Ans:  Yes, because we can see the people were saved one by one by the man. At last we also see that he drown in the cold water.

3. How is the story narrated? Are falshbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Ans: The Story was narrated by the rescuer who come with the helicopter.

4.Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Ans: The story is quite in a fast-pace. Everything is happening really fast in the story. It started fast and then ended very fast.

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
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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?
Ans: The conflicts in this story is the ice storm that is raging there in event and everybody is trying to escape. In the end almost everyone survive, but there is one man that could not make it through the bad disaster. He is the one who helps every other survivors.

7.What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
Ans: The climax of the story is when the rescuer arrived the incident, this part is almost the end of the story. The ending is quite sad, because the guy that always help other drowned and sink into the river.

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

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?

The Man in the Water

Reflection

The novel that I have chosen is some of the best novel out there. Even though the words are too hare to understand. It really gives out the feeling and mood of the time during the revolutionaries. Even though the book talk about war and stuffs there someone fiction made up like resurrection. Which it can never happen in real life.

This project really helped me to appreciate such a long story. Sometimes the story seems to be boring because I can't understand the words, but the way Dicken interpret the mood of that era really clings me to the book. I never thought I would enjoy a 400+ pages of novel.

Making summary of it is really fun for me. Even though sometimes I need the help of Internet cause I can't understand the story. This story is really fun. I want everyone to open their hearts to this kind of book and read it. It will gives you a whole new world and mood which you can never feel it.

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