Narrator's Persona

The story’s narrator has a significant impact on how we perceive the story’s characters. Describe the persona of the narrator in “Evacuation Order No. 19.” Analyze the effect of the narrator on readers. Use details from the story to explain your answer.

• The narrator has a significant impact on the story because of their descriptions of the character's traits shape how we think about the character. For example, if story is told by a narrator who is a friend of a character, then we will get a impression that the character is a good character. On the other hand, if the story is told by a narrator who is an enemy of the character, then the impression we get is a negative impression of the character. So overall, the impression would be biased. 
• The narrator in "Evacuation Order No. 19" is a quite neutral narrator in my opinion. This is because he or she does not give us (or more specifically, me) any good or bad impression of Mr. Hayashi nor of her actions. The narrator, I believe, is simply stating a series of actions and facts. Also, there is no hint of the story, narration, or plot being biased.
• I believe that having a neutral tone when writing the story "Evacuation Order No.19" is the best way to convey the "true" feeling of the story - the feeling that the author wants to convey. If the story is biased in any way, the feeling would be completely different.

School and Community Characteristics

• What are the social characteristics that make up your school? These can include family relationships, as well as interaction between students and teachers. 
• What are the political characteristics that make up your school? How is it governed? Who is in control? Are students able to participate in the school’s government or decision-making process? 
• What are the economic characteristics that make up your community? 
• What cultural groups make up your community? How have these groups influenced your community?

•  Social characteristics that make up my school include relationships such as family relations, friendship, and teacher-student relations. I have a older brother who is currently a senior, and who is someone I barely talk to when I am in school. I have a large population of friends, including many of the high school students. There are many various types of teacher-student relations. Some examples may be strictly just teachers and students, while others may be friends who poke each other. 
• The school's center is mainly the office. Most of the commands and changes that is related to school is mainly decided there, made by our head of school and our principal. Our school, like most other schools, include a student council that communicates the student's wishes to the head of the school, in this case, the office. 
• The economic conditions of our community are in pretty good condition. After all, this American school is quite expensive, and only parents with the financial ability will send their children here, so their financial conditions must be quite well, if not above average.
• The main cultural group that mkes up my community is the overall group of Asians. There are only a few foreigners in the student body: two Japanese,  one Korean, and one American. The main group I hang out with is all made up of Asians. More precisely Taiwanese. They influence me in many ways such as how I think and how I behave.

Life-Changing Events

What events in history or in the present have forced people to change their lives completely? How do people cope with hardships that require enormous changes in their lives? Have you ever experienced an event that made a sudden and significant change in your life? If so, describe the even and how it changed your life. If not, imagine how you might react to such an event?

• There are several events that have forced people to change their lives completely before in history. For example, the situation of the Nazis forcing the Jews to certain places and making them work until they die. These Jews have to cope with their situation and try to survive with their families. Another example involves the people with Japanese or even Asian ancestry. During World War II, these people have been moved to camps in certain areas because the United States government fears that there are spies within the population of Americans with Japanese ancestry. This is what the story "Evacuation No.19" is talking about. People cope in these extreme situations by working together with either their family, friends, or with other people that are in the same situation as them.
• I have not been through such an extreme, significant, and important situation before, or at least I believe I have not and do not consider anything (any event) as significant yet. I believe that when I face one of these events, I would be in shock, and that I will try my best in order to overcome this shock with the help of the people around me.

Satire in "The Storyteller"

What aspects of "The Storyteller make it a satire? What is Saki poking fun at with this story? How does he use humor and exaggeration to make his points? Support your answers with details and exampled from the story.

•  In the story "The Storyteller", Saki pokes fun at two things. The first thing he pokes at is people who are like the aunt. These people think that they are bringing justice to the world, and that their ways and views are always correct. The second thing that Saki pokes fun at is the ideas that state that if you are very good and well behaved, you will always be rewarded because of your good moral character. Saki uses several elements to make his points - humor and exaggeration. One of the most obvious examples is the story told by the bachelor. In the bachelor's story, Bertha being good is not a good thing, because in the end, she was eaten by a wolf because she was good. It was her goodness (and her rewards) that caused her death. In the story, the humor can be found when the bachelor is describing the garden with the pigs that are of various colors. This also includes part of the exaggeration.
• I agree with the satirical situation described by Saki. Sometimes, people who think that they are justice are not always doing the best things. This is because they sometimes force other people to do the things they think are right, which might cause a lot of chaos. This is because this way of doing things make the forced people angry, and want to rebel. This is why the children are rebelling against the aunt. They have been forced to learn proper manners for too long, so now, all they want is to be improper.

Motivation for Telling a Story

In "The Storyteller", what is the aunt's motivation for telling the children a story? What is the bachelor's motivation? How are their motivations similar? How are they different? How does the aunt react at the end of the bachelor's story?

• The aunt's motivation to tell her story is because she wants to quiet the children down, and she also wants to teach the children to be proper and behaved good children. The bachelor also wants to quiet the children down, but on the other hand, he also wants to give the aunt a hard time by telling the children an improper story so they would ask and annoy the aunt for improper stories for a long time. The content of the two stories told by the adults teaches the children different things. The aunt's story intended to teach the children that being good is a good thing because you will be rewarded. The bachelor's story, however, is trying to convey the idea that sometimes when you are too good and too nice, people will take advantage of you. After the aunt hears the story, she reacts in a very emotional way. She is very upset that the bachelor told the children such an improper story. She thinks that the story has made the children think in an improper way, and because of the improper story, she is going to have to deal with these troublesome children for about the next six months or so.

Omniscient Point of View

In “The Storyteller,” what do we learn about each character through the omniscient point of view? How does this choice of narrator affect the plot? How would the story be different if told by either the aunt or the bachelor from the first person point of view? What would be lost? Write a paragraph or more to explain your answer, and support your ideas with details from the story.

• We are able to understand what every character is thinking and feeling about certain things or other characters when the story is told in an omniscient point of view. This choice of narrator, an omniscient point of view, affects the plot because one, we have an unbiased view about the overall story, and two, we know that the things told and that are occurring are true, so we do not have to make inferences about everything. This story would be different if told by the either the aunt or the bachelor. When the bachelor tells the story, he will be biased into the idea that the aunt is boring and makes fun of the aunt more because of her "righteousness", and when the aunt tells the story, she will be biased into the idea that the bachelor is arrogant, and that he is being an unsuccessful adult for telling the children improper stories. If the story was told either by the aunt or the bachelor, the truth or moral the story is trying to convey by comparing the two versions of the story would be lost. Also, we do not know what the children thinks about the stories, which is a factor that helps us identify the truth or moral.

Satire

Satire generates laughter at the expense of others in the hopes of changing their behavior. Make a list of your "pet peeves", or behaviors that annoy you. Create a character who has one or more of these traits, and write a satirical paragraph poking fun at this character.

• My "pet peeves":
• repeating the same thing over and over again without stopping
• speaking with unreasonable reasons, and still thinking that he or she is right
• bothering with useless information that is completely irrelevant to what I am doing
• screaming all the time (little children)
• being dirty or having poor hygiene
• being extremely lazy and telling others to do all your work (pushing your responsibilities onto others
• bossy

• The character that I am going to create is going to be someone who is a bossy and thinks that they are the best and more superior than others. This person believes that whatever he or she does is always right, and think that other people should obey him or her. This character has most of my pet peeves, whether it is being like a broken radio, or being extremely lazy.
• Satirical paragraph: Adeline is the most popular and well liked girl in high school. People liked her no matter what she did. They liked it when she's bossy. They liked it when she tells them to do her work for her. They like it when she gossips about things they don't actually care.

Goodness

Is goodness always rewarded? In "The Storyteller", whose version of life - the bachelor's or the aunt's - do you think is true to life? Why? Can you think of examples from your own life or experiences to back up your opinion?

• No, goodness is not always rewarded. This is because there is always evil in people. I believe that the bachelor's version of life is more true to life than the aunt's version. I believe that this is true because even when you are good, kind, and nice to people all the time, some people will take advantage of your goodness. Also, goodness may sometimes make you end up in an unchangeable, horrible situation, and sometimes, the situation may even be very depressing. Here is one example: some people may pretend to be friends with you and ask you to help him or her with a certain thing, but in reality, this person is just trying to gain something from you; when he or she reaches his or her goals, you will just be thrown out and ignored like they never met you before. One of the examples in my experiences is that a boy tried to be friends with me in order to gain information about my cousin. Fortunately, this is not a really big issue, so it is alright. But how about the time when you actually meet somebody who will use you just for his or her own purpose?

Saki's Purpose

In "The Storyteller", the author gives us some clues about his purpose might be. Reading the following clues. How might they illustrate his purpose?

• The aunt's story is "deploringly uninteresting".
• The aunt keeps saying "don't" and the children keep asking "why?".
• The children think the bachelor's story is beautiful, but the aunt think it's improper.

• These clues above illustrate the author's different purposes by telling us several things that represent several different ideas that, in the end, create a whole idea, a whole picture that tells us something else. The first one told is that the proper stories are very disliked by the children - they have heard similar stories many times and are tired of it. These children want something new. The second thing is that the clues inform us is that the children are curious and will not be satisfied by just the aunt's proper stories. The third thing is that the clues let us know that the children need something new, something that's completely different than what they are familiar with, and not something that keeps on repeating. 
• The author's main point or purpose he is trying to convey to both adults other people is that the children in the world cannot be contained by only the same repeating boring, proper stories because they are curious about the world, and no matter what you tell them, unless you give them a really good and clever answer, they will not be satisfied and keep on asking you questions until you are very annoyed.

Influence of Childhood

How might a writer's childhood experiences influence his or her writing? Do you think your unique experiences in life would be a good source of inspiration for a story or book?

• The experiences of a writer when he or she was still a child are one of the main factors that influences his or her writing. Different types of experiences, either positive or negative experiences, influence different parts or areas of a writer's writing. Some parts of a writer's writing that may be influenced are the genre of the story (whether it's a novel, long story, short story, poem, etc), the mood, the tone, the style and in what kind of point of view is the story told in, and how the story is structured.
• Yes, I wholeheartedly believe that my unique experiences in life would be a good source of inspiration for a story or book, and it does not matter whether the influence is a positive one or a negative one. These stories will then be real life based, and I might even become famous because of these moving experiences! (Ok, I'm just kidding, so you can just ignore me and continue on.) Unique experiences and events that influence my personality can also be used to influence a character's personality. It can also create a whole, new, original and not yet thought of plot that will attract many readers.

Point of No Return

How do people react when they are in a situation they cannot change? Have you ever found yourself in such a situation? If so, how did you react? If not, how do you think you would react?

• People react differently when they are in a situation they cannot change, or several different situations. It wholly and solely depends on that specific person. Some people panic and don't know what to do, some try their best to solve the situation, and finally, some stay calm and act like they don't have a care in the world. 
• I do not remember any significant situations similar to the one described above, where I am suck in a situation I cannot change. I do not know how I will react to a certain situation, and it may vary depending on what the situation is, or who I am with when the situation occurs. Sometimes, I think that I will be extremely calm, but sometimes, I believe that I will panic so much that my life span might even be shortened for quite a bit just because I'm so worried about what might happen because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. That's just me and my personality, I guess. I think that the times when I am calm is when I think that it does not matter too much to me because the event will not influence me a lot.

My Favorite Stories

List several of your favorite stories or books, especially from when you were younger. Why did they capture your interest? Write about why these stories appeal to you.

• Right now, I have a favorite series of stories. Unfortunately, this is a Chinese series, and therefore does not have an English name. Anyways, the Chinese name of the series is called "五星級金龜婿". It consists of eight books, which starts from the love stories of three pairs of parents, described in three books. The rest of the five books consists of the love stories of the children of the three pairs of parents.Their main lesson (or moral) is that when there is love, people overcome their hardships just so they can be with each other.
• These stories appeal to me because of many different reasons - for every book, there is a fresh, fascinating, unique, and interesting plot. Also, every character is brought to life, and the author successfully conveys the feelings and emotions of the character. Another thing I like about this series is the author's tone and voice - there is a certain feeling to it that makes me want to finish the whole series of books, or else I will not be satisfied. I would feel anxious, and cannot anticipate what will the book show or tell me. The last and final two things I like about the book is that I can clearly create an image of the character's appearance and facial expressions, and that this is an extremely funny and humorous series of stories!