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?