Story: Release
Conflicts External
-Eileen and the female neighbour
Eileen’s neighbour compared the dog to her which is a sign of disrespect to her (“The woman waved a hand. Her gold bracelet gleamed in the sun. “Yeah, yeah, you’re like our dog”…“Don’t give birth to as many as this dog’s going to have”” (pg 140,141))
-Eileen and her husband
Eileen forgotten to collect her husband’s suit from the dry-cleaners which got him vexed (““Honey, have you picked up my suit from the dry-cleaners?”…“No, I forgot,” she said…“It’s all right. I’ll just have to zip over to the cleaners before I come and get you. I thought that now you weren’t working, you could…forget it. If we’re late for dinner, you explain to them.”” (pg 140,141))
-Eileen and her neighbour
Eileen’s neighbor cut down her guava tree when she was in the supermarket (“In the first week, the new neighbours cut down the guava tree near the fence separating the two houses while Eileen was at the supermarket. She came back to a big, ugly hole in the garden…”Why did you do that? The tree wasn’t in your property, the branches were all within ours.”” (pg 141))
Climax
When Eileen called the SPCA and was bring rejected, she decided to do something about it, so she decided to wait until the person came to give them food, to solve the problem. (“And this was what the person on the line said –Sorry, we can’t help you…“What’ll I do now? I’m going crazy”…she would wait until the person came to give them food.” (pg 145,146))
Resolution
Open Ended
-The problem is only partially solved as Eileen got her Silence from the dog which she wanted, but she was being traumatized by what the man did. We do not what will happen to the man who killed the dogs, or what will the owners do the man who killed their dogs, or whether Eileen would report this incident to the police as animal abuse.
Characters
Eileen
.She is on good terms with others (“Eileen tied her hair into a ponytail and went over to say hi, just to be a friendly neighbor. She ws pregnant that she could hardly walk down the street without heaving like a dying dog, but she went anyway.” (pg 139))
.She is narrow-minded( “You don’t do gardening anyway. So what if they took a foot if the garden? Why make things so difficult?” (pg 143))
Philip
.He is Petty (“I told you yesterday and this morning…It’s all right. I’ll just have to zip over to the cleaners before I come and get you. I thought that now you weren’t working, you could…forget it. If we’re late for dinner, you explain to them” (pg 140,141)
The man who lived at the neightbour house .He is Understanding (“The dogs go really bother the baby, don’t they…Well, don’t you worry. I’ll take care of it” (pg 147))
.He is Violent (“ Thud. A dull sound. It came from the outside. She looked out the window, heard it again –thud. And there was silence. She saw the man emerge from the shadows, wiping the spanner” (pg 148))
The most interesting part in this story was the ending of the story when she saw the man emerge from the shadows, wiping the spanner. It made me curious whether he killed the dog and clean the spanner or he moved the dog to another location and clean his dirty spanner. That is why it is the most interesting part in this story.
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Story: Release
Conflicts External
-Eileen and the female neighbour
Eileen’s neighbour compared the dog to her which is a sign of disrespect to her (“The woman waved a hand. Her gold bracelet gleamed in the sun. “Yeah, yeah, you’re like our dog”…“Don’t give birth to as many as this dog’s going to have”” (pg 140,141))
-Eileen and her husband
Eileen forgotten to collect her husband’s suit from the dry-cleaners which got him vexed (““Honey, have you picked up my suit from the dry-cleaners?”…“No, I forgot,” she said…“It’s all right. I’ll just have to zip over to the cleaners before I come and get you. I thought that now you weren’t working, you could…forget it. If we’re late for dinner, you explain to them.”” (pg 140,141))
-Eileen and her neighbour
Eileen’s neighbor cut down her guava tree when she was in the supermarket (“In the first week, the new neighbours cut down the guava tree near the fence separating the two houses while Eileen was at the supermarket. She came back to a big, ugly hole in the garden…”Why did you do that? The tree wasn’t in your property, the branches were all within ours.”” (pg 141))
Climax
When Eileen called the SPCA and was bring rejected, she decided to do something about it, so she decided to wait until the person came to give them food, to solve the problem. (“And this was what the person on the line said –Sorry, we can’t help you…“What’ll I do now? I’m going crazy”…she would wait until the person came to give them food.” (pg 145,146))
Resolution
Open Ended
-The problem is only partially solved as Eileen got her Silence from the dog which she wanted, but she was being traumatized by what the man did. We do not what will happen to the man who killed the dogs, or what will the owners do the man who killed their dogs, or whether Eileen would report this incident to the police as animal abuse.
Characters
Eileen
.She is on good terms with others (“Eileen tied her hair into a ponytail and went over to say hi, just to be a friendly neighbor. She ws pregnant that she could hardly walk down the street without heaving like a dying dog, but she went anyway.” (pg 139))
.She is narrow-minded( “You don’t do gardening anyway. So what if they took a foot if the garden? Why make things so difficult?” (pg 143))
Philip
.He is Petty (“I told you yesterday and this morning…It’s all right. I’ll just have to zip over to the cleaners before I come and get you. I thought that now you weren’t working, you could…forget it. If we’re late for dinner, you explain to them” (pg 140,141)
The man who lived at the neightbour house .He is Understanding (“The dogs go really bother the baby, don’t they…Well, don’t you worry. I’ll take care of it” (pg 147))
.He is Violent (“ Thud. A dull sound. It came from the outside. She looked out the window, heard it again –thud. And there was silence. She saw the man emerge from the shadows, wiping the spanner” (pg 148))
The most interesting part in this story was the ending of the story when she saw the man emerge from the shadows, wiping the spanner. It made me curious whether he killed the dog and clean the spanner or he moved the dog to another location and clean his dirty spanner. That is why it is the most interesting part in this story.
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Hello my name is Darius.
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