Tuesday, November 15 ~ Short Story #2: Through the Tunnel

ROOTS

• Plac, place – please
• Psych – mind, soul
• Ri, ridi, risi – laughter

SHORT STORIES

• Review Two Kinds: Conflict? Theme? 
• Take notes on plot:

Plot - a general pattern of events that takes place in the narrative and the resolution of the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist .

• Beginning
• exposition
• complication or inciting incident (the antagonist presents an obstacle to the protagonist)
• rising action which features 
• crisis points

• Middle
• climax or ultimate crisis 
• there may be a black moment (darkest point of the climax)
• the protagonist may experience an epiphany, sudden realization, clarification, or anagnorisis

•  End
• falling action, denouement
• resolution
• open ending
• closed ending

Story #2: Through the Tunnel  by Doris Lessing

• Click here for the story.

JOURNAL 29: Through the Tunnel: 
SAT Vocab

1. Contrition - a state of feeling crushed by guilt
2. luminous - bright or shining
3. supplication - the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly
4. sputtering - spitting or spraying
5. beseeching - urgently requesting someone to do something
6. minute - tiny
7. clambered - to climb, move, or get out of something in an awkward or laborious way
8. incredulous - unbelievable
9. gout - a type of arthritis

1. Have you ever taken a risk to prove yourself before? Do you find it convincing that Jerry takes such a large risk and survives?
2. Track the plot in this story.

HW: Complete Journal 29 & read Through the Tunnel.