The+Witch

Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:_the witch_

Point of View: third person

Protagonist:The boy johnny What type of character is the Protagonist? dynamic and round

Antagonist:the man

Describe the setting: the setting takes place in the 1950's. The man told the little boy that when he got older that he would smoke just like the man and his father. Their in a train car, not a lot of people on it. The mood for this story is very excited, when the little boy is hearing the story he is very amussed.

Type of Conflict: man vs man

Describe the main conflict:the little boys mother doesn't want the man talking to her boy anymore, doesn't like the story and askes him to leave but the little boy and the man laugh at her while she tells her to leave.

Describe the Climax of the Story: when the little boys mother asks the man to leave.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? the little boy started believing in witches.

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. we don't know if the man is telling the truth about his sister.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? johnny thought the mans sister was a witch at first, at the end he thought the man was a witch for killing his sister.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? the climax in this story would be when the little boys mother told the man to leave, and didnt have time to finish his story.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "i had a little sister, just like yours"

Metaphor: "my mommy will eat you"

Personification:"the conductor will eat my mommy" the little boy said. "we'll cut her head off."

Symbol: witches, symbol of bad people

Foreshadowing (give both elements): the little boy sees a witch, then thinks the man is a witch.

Irony: the man loved his sister, then ends up killing her

Imagery: "did you cut her all in pieces?" asked the little boy. "I cut off her head and her hands and her feet and her hair and her nose."said the man.

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. In the story the man is telling the little boy about how he killer his sister, but the little boys mother is listening to the story and doesn't like what he is telling her son. She asks him to leave without finishing the story. The mystery is was his sister a witch or was he? did he kill his little sister?

Questions 1-7

1. Contrast the way in which the mother and the man treat the little boy. support your answer with examples from the story. The mother and the man treat the boy as if they're teasing him. telling him a story that makes the little boy ammused but at the same time confuses him. "did that man really cut his sister up in pieces?", "he was just teasing," the mother said, and added urgently,"just teasing"

2. a) What do you think is the man's motivation in telling the little boy such a shocking story? The man wanted to tell the little boy about the story because he thought the little boy could learn something from it. How he told the little boy that his sister might of been a witch, but in the end the boy thinks the man is the witch. b) how dose the little boy react to the story? The little boy was ammussed by the story. He wanted to know why the man would do that to his little sister, if he loved her so much.

3. Is the mothers anger at the man justifiable, or dose she overreact to his story? comment. The mother was being resonable about the mans story, she did not over react. It was a horrifeing story and she didn't want her son to hear such a thing.

4. What do witches represent to the little boy? How dose the react when he thinks he sees a witch outside the window? Why dose the little boy think the man was a witch? Witches represent horror to the little boy. When he first saw one outside the window he wanted to kill all the evil ugly witches. The boy thinks the man in the end is a witch because the man thought his little sister was a witch, he killed his little sister. Therefore hes the real witch in the end.

5. What dose the story have to say about the nature of children and the nature of human beings? Children don't think about what's real or not, they don't understand. Children are young and don't always take things seriously, human beings on the other hand do the same too. Usually they know when some one is joking around or being serious.

6. The man's story is extremely violent, yet the little boy reacts with excitement and interest. List 3 examples of children's poems or stories that are particularly violent. Do you think this sort of literature should be kepted away from children? Why or why not? This story should be kepted from children, under the age of 10 at least. Most kids don't understand at such a young age, just like the little boy in the story. Most kid stories are based on violent things in the past. But they don't represnt it in the sorty
 * ring around the rose, its about the black death
 * Caroline
 * Toy story

7. Over the last decade, some violent horro stories have been popular in the movies. Why, in your view, do so many people enjoy horrow stories? Most people, including myself, do enjoy horro movies mostly because they have a lot of suspence in them. They keep you guessing till the end. The mostly mystery. you don't know whats going to happen next in most cases.