One Thousand Dollars ______by O Henry
A. Plot
It is about a young man who is given one thousand dollars by his uncle and doesn't know how to use it wisely.
It is about a young Gillian that must be providing the report how to use money one thousand dollars. Gillian has a rich uncle but her uncle died. From this will, he's uncle want a report of how Gillian can use this one thousand dollars if Gillian have this money. Gillian meets some people, he want to know and ask of them if they have one thousand dollars. He went to Old Bryson at his club to ask how to use one thousand dollars. After that, he also met Miss Lauriere in theater stage. She also gave an answer as to how to spend a thousand dollars. Mr. Gillian asked the taxi driver to answer the same questions but the answers he is also not the way he wanted to spend the money.
However, no one can help him. Then, he saw the blind man had more than one thousand dollars in the account. Gillian made a sudden decision to give all the inheritance money to Miss Hayden. Finally, he visited Miss Hayden at the library. He also told her that he loved and gave one thousand dollars. Miss Hayden refused to love the Giilian but received the money. Then, he wrote the account shows how he spent one thousand dollars and are ready to provide a report on the accounts to the lawyer Tolman. Then he discovered that there are conditions of his uncle who said that if he used the money prudently, fifty thousand clear would be given to him. However, he was not concerned with conditions set forth. Giilian tore the reports before read by the lawyer Tolman and left happily.
STORY STRUCTURE
ELEMENT 1 - THEME:
In "One Thousand Dollars" by O.Henry related to the money. Theme appropriate of One Thousand Dollars is how to manage money and to manage the money we need to have experience of how to manage. However, the main character does not know how to manage this money. Gillian asked to manage his money that his uncle had died. He is required to provide the reports how he uses this one thousand dollars as soon as possible. Therefore, Gillian immediately asked some people without thinking wisely. Besides that, love cannot buy with money. This is because Miss Hayden rejects his love even received money from him.
"Gillian half turned and looked out the window. In a low voice he said, "I suppose, of course, that you know I love you."
"I am sorry," said Miss Hayden, as she picked up her money."(pg 3, line 24)
One Thousand Dollars Mr. Gillian can open our minds how to make this decision because of the decisions we make have to think about the good and bad for us and the people who are around us. We also need to trust in managing the money that has been entrusted to us. Moral of the story we need to manage finances wisely and must be carefully in action.
ELEMENT 2 - SETTING (Characters) :
The main character of the story "One Thousand Dollars" is Gillian. He is a young teenager who through experience on how to manage the money that had been left by a deceased uncle. If he could spend the money prudently, he will still get fifty thousand. According to his lawyer uncle, named Tolman during their first meeting.
"Young Gillian touched the thin package of fifty-dollar bills and laughed.
"It's such an unusual amount," he explained, kindly, to the lawyer. "If it had been ten thousand a man might celebrate with a lot of fireworks.  Even fifty dollars would have been less trouble."(pg 1,line 3)
In "One Thousand Dollars" Gillian is an ignorant and rude. He does not have the spirit and endurance. He relied on other people, or the people around him to help him on the way to use a thousand dollars prudently.
"Now, what can a man possibly do with a thousand dollars?"(pg 1, line 22)
"What would you do with a thousand dollars if you had it?" (pg 2, line 28)
He also calm and ego because when can know about if he used the money prudently, fifty thousand clear will be given to him, he tore the account and go to whistling happy. Gillian portrayed as an immature, volatile and not responsible for his actions.
"He calmly tore the report and its cover into pieces and dropped them into his pocket."(pg 4, line 24)
"Tolman and Sharp shook their heads mournfully at each other when Gillian left. They heard him whistling happily in the hallway as he waited for the elevator."(pg 4, line 29)
ELEMENT 3 - ATTEMPT:
Attempt is a character takes action to achieve his goals. In the story of One Thousand Dollars, the main character in the short story is Mr. Gillian. He has been taking action to prepare a report on how to make use of one thousand dollars. He tried to ask some of friends are known like Old Bryson at the club, the taxi driver when he boarded a taxi, a blind man on the sidewalk and Miss Lauriere in Stage Theater about what to do with the money of one thousand dollars.
"Eight blocks down Broadway, Gillian got out of the cab. A blind man sat on the sidewalk selling pencils. Gillian went out and stood in front of him."(pg 2, line 33)
"Excuse me, but would you mind telling me what you would do if you had a thousand dollars?" (pg 3, line 1)
He also went to meet a lawyer to find out what his uncle that he wanted to know. However, in the end for the sake of love Gillian was gived the money to Miss Hayden and willing to reject the conditions to get the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Gillian found the solution by asking questions. Finally, he made sure giving his lover the money was the best way.
"I beg your pardon," said Gillian, cheerfully. "But was Miss Hayden left anything by my uncle's will in addition to the ring and the ten dollars?"(pg 3, line 9)
"Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owed by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth."(pg 4, line 1)
ELEMENT 4 - STYLE:
The language is a figurative language. As evidence, there are few words such as "Even fifty dollars would have been loss trouble". (pg 1, line 5) The writer would like to make the text draw readers' attention to read this story further. Besides, "When he saw Gillian coming near he took a noisy, deep breath, laid down his book and took off his glasses." (pg 1, line 14).
There is also having simile language such as "You can go and buy Miss Lotta Lauriere a diamond necklace with the money and then take yourself off to Idaho and inflict your presence upon a ranch."(pg 2, line 11).
Then, in One Thousand Dollars is interesting language such as "I have funny story to tell you, said Gillian"(pg 1, line 16) and " I thought the late Septimus Gillian was worth something like half a million, said Old Bryson showed very little interest.(pg 1,line 23).
ELEMENT 1- THE CRITICAL RESPONSE :
In "One Thousand Dollars" is about how to manage the money of one thousand dollars. It is about a young Gillian. Maybe because his uncle knew he was having less moral, rich uncle died and informed his lawyer Tolman for testing Gillian. If Gillian can use the money wisely, he would receive a larger amount of fifty thousand dollars. At the beginning of the story, the authors draw the attention of the reader to want to know whether this story ends well or not. There, Gillian asked to manage money wisely and promptly. Gillian challenge given to him. This situation makes the reader more eager.
The authors use several different places in the story so that the reader does not get bored to read the next section. First place Gillian was visited at his club and meet Old Bryson, then with Miss Lauriere in Stage Theater, in cab, at street, at library and at office Tolman and Sharp. Overall, the places that used to play an important role so that the reader is easy to imagine the real situation that happened and would consider yourself to be in situations that story. This means that the reader can appreciate this story very well.
At the middle of this story, the authors tried portraying Gillian there he trying to get answers about how to manage the money of one thousand dollars. In addition, the authors use tone that reflects one's feelings at the time as, "Gillian half Turned and looked out the window. In a low voice he said," I Suppose, of course, That you know I love you. "(pg 3, line 24). Climax of this story is that when Gillian Tolman went to a lawyer's office to submit the report the way he uses the money. At the end, Gillian tore reports once knew he was not receive the money of fifty thousand dollars for not meeting the specified requirements.
ELEMENT 2 - THE EMOTIONAL RESPONSE:
In the literary criticism, we have to identify the main character Gillian. He's maybe not good person and him do not know how him manage this one thousand dollars in him life. He meet with various partners who have different backgrounds so they give different opinion but him not accept they opinion because their ideas do not same with the requirements. Gillian began to feel confused as to what he would do. Gillian feels he can to manage the money properly. But Mr. Gillian not affords to bear the responsibilities given by his uncle.
Morale:
Thus, the lesson from this story is that we should be well on our way towards financial planning matters that are beneficial. Let the money be properly planned so that the money available to spend on worthwhile things. Finally, we must be wise and clever in managing our own lives.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Chronologically
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Summary
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
By going from persons to person.
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?
Physical and Moral.
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 indeterminded? Is it fairly achieved?
The climax of the story is when the young man knows that he was given one thousand dollars to see if he is able to use the money wisely. If he is able to disposes the money wisely, he will be given $50,000.
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 naturally to the next?
The plot is united. Yes. Naturally to the next.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
Resolve. The improbable of the story is when the young man must disposes the money wisely with the good account on what he should spends on.
C. Characters
1. Who is/are the main character in the story? What does the main character look like?
The main character is Gillian. Gillian is the man who receives the money from his uncle and doesn't know what to do with it.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
Gillian lives at Broadway road. The story does not tell exactly where he lives or whom he's living with but I assume that he is living alone. He use to play grumbling as a way of living. He is supported by his uncle.
3. What are some chief characteristics (personally traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other character? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feeling; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
Gillian has less confidence, he relies on his friend's advices more than from himself. By that, he lost to have 50,000 more dollars. He interacted with others in the spite of advices from them. He has quite low degree of thought. Gillian is happy and contented with his life even before he got one thousand dollars to handle and accounted. Accounting that amount of money made his life became discontented.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
Gillian is facing the difficulties on how to handle one thousand dollars properly and how to manage the money well enough to accounted it. It wasn't resolved, instead lost him the 50,000 dollars.
5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
There were no developing character in this story.
D. Point of View
1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the character in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?
Third-person.
2.What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
Third person narrative can be more objective, less emotional and personal.
The author can cover all characters equally with no bias towards any one. No, it does not.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
The narrator is reliable because as a third person narrating, the narrator can cover the characters equally without being bias, thus, the narrator is reliable. No, there were no limitations. The narrator knew everything about the characters because the narrator told us how they thinks or feels.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
The author uses the point of view to primarily reveals the story. Never.
E. Imagery
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stands out in your reading of the story?
When Gillian realizes he lost 50,00 dollars.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy,or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
None, because this story isn't that much into the emotions of the readers.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
Sense of feelings. I associated the image with the loss of mine. The loss of something due to our actions is the worst of all lost. Author wants us to see feel about how a small thing can leads to something big.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
By having us feels the feelings of the character.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic of frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, to experience anger or fear?
It is none of those because this story is based on a moral lessons. This is more of teaching than to let us feel the emotions of the story.
3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?
The author wanted to show how the character would chose to make the useful of the one thousand dollars. The authors probably likes but mistrust the character because the author wants to see first if the character is able to handle and make a good use of the one thousand dollars.
The Pendulum-------By O. Henry
1. About the Author
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) more popularly known by his pen name O. Henry was one of the most celebrated masters of the short story in the 19th Century America. He had a chequered career as a book keeper, a draftsman in the land office and a teller in the Bank of Austin. He also tried his hand a cartooning, writing and editing before he made a mark as a writer. O. Henry’s stories have a deep human interest. He spins brief and strikingly dramatic tales involving his characters in such a manner that the element of surprise and a twist ending startle the reader.
Perspective: We take things for granted, esp. the love and care of dear ones and it’s only when they depart or leave us that we really appreciate their true value. But what happens, if after this awareness they come back in our life and give us another chance, do we really care more towards them, do we really give them time and love they deserve. This story explains it all in a very beautiful way.
2. Main Characters
John & Katy
John seems to be a man discontented with the drudgery of his routine life. He is always skeptical, desolate and angry.
Katy is harder to characterize because we only get John's perspective of her. She seems feminine, caring, possibly a bit of a nag since she is "wrathful" about his evenings out, and expressed "ire" when he returned.
The two seem to be going through the motions but missing the mark, and don't seem destined for much successs together as a happy couple.
Plot:
“The Pendulum” is the story of a married man who is terribly bored with the monotony of life. In his dull and unexciting life, it is the same routine everyday same office, same job, same public places and life, same friends, same events, movements, words and even food. Trapped in this circle of life, he lives on a repetitive life until one evening, when he retuned home his wife was missing. She leaves behind a note that she is going away to see her ailing mother. Used to be greeted by his wife in her name, predictable manner, Perkins is shocked by the emptiness of his apartment in the absence of his wife. This emptiness, heightened by disorderly things, scattered clothes and leftover packets of only reflect the emptiness of his wife infact all life around him. Unable to bear a break in his usual routine, and a life without Katy, the bored and lonely Perkins realizes his folly of neglecting his wife. Eating his cold dinner, he becomes painfully aware how Katy toils hard to keep his life in order and he has not acknowledged this. Full of remorse about leaving Katy home to go to play pool with his friends each day, he decides to be more caring. He decides to make amends by doing what he had never done. He resolves to cut down his outings with friends and his visits to McCloskey’s for a game of pool. He promised to take his wife out for amusement, to look after her, to love her and to pleas her as any husband ought to do for his soul mate. He would make up for all his neglect, he thinks. What was life without her, he wonders.
Even as he lost in these thoughts there comes Katy as suddenly as she had disappeared, her stupidly and soon all his resolves melt into nothingness and he finds himself a solace of habit again. He reaches for his hat and slips out of the door giving his usual mechanical reply to Katy a question asked in a complaining voice, “Now, where are you going, I’d like to know, John Perkins”, “Thoughtful I’d drop into McCloskey’s and play a game or two of pool with the fellows”, say she.
Analysis:
On one hand, the story shows that the thoughtless and inconsiderate people soon lose interest in their spouses and their mean and selfish approach robs their marriages of all romance. On the other hand the implied massage of the story is that weak minded people fail to reform themselves even when they realize their faults and are filled with remorse. Such people from one extreme to another and cannot stick to their solution. So I recommend others also to read this book and enjoy it.
How is the title of the story "The Pendulum" by O. Henry appropriate?
The pendulum is not associated in any way with the story....only the routine of John and pendulum are "alike".
A pendulum is a component on a clock that swings back and forth with every second in time. It is often used to refer things in life swinging from one extreme to the other. If you have a scale where on one side is John's distaste for his monotonous life, and on the other side is his regret, longing, and craving for that life back, then John swings from one side to the other quite quickly. So, John himself is like the pendulum, swinging back and forth between two opposite extremes, very quickly. You would not expect, that just seconds after his wife returns back home, that he would switch from feeling resolutely determined to be a better man, from fiercely longing for his wife, to wanting to immediately leave, returning back to his old ways. So, yes, John and the pendulum are very much alike, and that is the reason for the title itself.
A. Plot
It is about a young man who is given one thousand dollars by his uncle and doesn't know how to use it wisely.
It is about a young Gillian that must be providing the report how to use money one thousand dollars. Gillian has a rich uncle but her uncle died. From this will, he's uncle want a report of how Gillian can use this one thousand dollars if Gillian have this money. Gillian meets some people, he want to know and ask of them if they have one thousand dollars. He went to Old Bryson at his club to ask how to use one thousand dollars. After that, he also met Miss Lauriere in theater stage. She also gave an answer as to how to spend a thousand dollars. Mr. Gillian asked the taxi driver to answer the same questions but the answers he is also not the way he wanted to spend the money.
However, no one can help him. Then, he saw the blind man had more than one thousand dollars in the account. Gillian made a sudden decision to give all the inheritance money to Miss Hayden. Finally, he visited Miss Hayden at the library. He also told her that he loved and gave one thousand dollars. Miss Hayden refused to love the Giilian but received the money. Then, he wrote the account shows how he spent one thousand dollars and are ready to provide a report on the accounts to the lawyer Tolman. Then he discovered that there are conditions of his uncle who said that if he used the money prudently, fifty thousand clear would be given to him. However, he was not concerned with conditions set forth. Giilian tore the reports before read by the lawyer Tolman and left happily.
STORY STRUCTURE
ELEMENT 1 - THEME:
In "One Thousand Dollars" by O.Henry related to the money. Theme appropriate of One Thousand Dollars is how to manage money and to manage the money we need to have experience of how to manage. However, the main character does not know how to manage this money. Gillian asked to manage his money that his uncle had died. He is required to provide the reports how he uses this one thousand dollars as soon as possible. Therefore, Gillian immediately asked some people without thinking wisely. Besides that, love cannot buy with money. This is because Miss Hayden rejects his love even received money from him.
"Gillian half turned and looked out the window. In a low voice he said, "I suppose, of course, that you know I love you."
"I am sorry," said Miss Hayden, as she picked up her money."(pg 3, line 24)
One Thousand Dollars Mr. Gillian can open our minds how to make this decision because of the decisions we make have to think about the good and bad for us and the people who are around us. We also need to trust in managing the money that has been entrusted to us. Moral of the story we need to manage finances wisely and must be carefully in action.
ELEMENT 2 - SETTING (Characters) :
The main character of the story "One Thousand Dollars" is Gillian. He is a young teenager who through experience on how to manage the money that had been left by a deceased uncle. If he could spend the money prudently, he will still get fifty thousand. According to his lawyer uncle, named Tolman during their first meeting.
"Young Gillian touched the thin package of fifty-dollar bills and laughed.
"It's such an unusual amount," he explained, kindly, to the lawyer. "If it had been ten thousand a man might celebrate with a lot of fireworks.  Even fifty dollars would have been less trouble."(pg 1,line 3)
In "One Thousand Dollars" Gillian is an ignorant and rude. He does not have the spirit and endurance. He relied on other people, or the people around him to help him on the way to use a thousand dollars prudently.
"Now, what can a man possibly do with a thousand dollars?"(pg 1, line 22)
"What would you do with a thousand dollars if you had it?" (pg 2, line 28)
He also calm and ego because when can know about if he used the money prudently, fifty thousand clear will be given to him, he tore the account and go to whistling happy. Gillian portrayed as an immature, volatile and not responsible for his actions.
"He calmly tore the report and its cover into pieces and dropped them into his pocket."(pg 4, line 24)
"Tolman and Sharp shook their heads mournfully at each other when Gillian left. They heard him whistling happily in the hallway as he waited for the elevator."(pg 4, line 29)
ELEMENT 3 - ATTEMPT:
Attempt is a character takes action to achieve his goals. In the story of One Thousand Dollars, the main character in the short story is Mr. Gillian. He has been taking action to prepare a report on how to make use of one thousand dollars. He tried to ask some of friends are known like Old Bryson at the club, the taxi driver when he boarded a taxi, a blind man on the sidewalk and Miss Lauriere in Stage Theater about what to do with the money of one thousand dollars.
"Eight blocks down Broadway, Gillian got out of the cab. A blind man sat on the sidewalk selling pencils. Gillian went out and stood in front of him."(pg 2, line 33)
"Excuse me, but would you mind telling me what you would do if you had a thousand dollars?" (pg 3, line 1)
He also went to meet a lawyer to find out what his uncle that he wanted to know. However, in the end for the sake of love Gillian was gived the money to Miss Hayden and willing to reject the conditions to get the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Gillian found the solution by asking questions. Finally, he made sure giving his lover the money was the best way.
"I beg your pardon," said Gillian, cheerfully. "But was Miss Hayden left anything by my uncle's will in addition to the ring and the ten dollars?"(pg 3, line 9)
"Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owed by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth."(pg 4, line 1)
ELEMENT 4 - STYLE:
The language is a figurative language. As evidence, there are few words such as "Even fifty dollars would have been loss trouble". (pg 1, line 5) The writer would like to make the text draw readers' attention to read this story further. Besides, "When he saw Gillian coming near he took a noisy, deep breath, laid down his book and took off his glasses." (pg 1, line 14).
There is also having simile language such as "You can go and buy Miss Lotta Lauriere a diamond necklace with the money and then take yourself off to Idaho and inflict your presence upon a ranch."(pg 2, line 11).
Then, in One Thousand Dollars is interesting language such as "I have funny story to tell you, said Gillian"(pg 1, line 16) and " I thought the late Septimus Gillian was worth something like half a million, said Old Bryson showed very little interest.(pg 1,line 23).
ELEMENT 1- THE CRITICAL RESPONSE :
In "One Thousand Dollars" is about how to manage the money of one thousand dollars. It is about a young Gillian. Maybe because his uncle knew he was having less moral, rich uncle died and informed his lawyer Tolman for testing Gillian. If Gillian can use the money wisely, he would receive a larger amount of fifty thousand dollars. At the beginning of the story, the authors draw the attention of the reader to want to know whether this story ends well or not. There, Gillian asked to manage money wisely and promptly. Gillian challenge given to him. This situation makes the reader more eager.
The authors use several different places in the story so that the reader does not get bored to read the next section. First place Gillian was visited at his club and meet Old Bryson, then with Miss Lauriere in Stage Theater, in cab, at street, at library and at office Tolman and Sharp. Overall, the places that used to play an important role so that the reader is easy to imagine the real situation that happened and would consider yourself to be in situations that story. This means that the reader can appreciate this story very well.
At the middle of this story, the authors tried portraying Gillian there he trying to get answers about how to manage the money of one thousand dollars. In addition, the authors use tone that reflects one's feelings at the time as, "Gillian half Turned and looked out the window. In a low voice he said," I Suppose, of course, That you know I love you. "(pg 3, line 24). Climax of this story is that when Gillian Tolman went to a lawyer's office to submit the report the way he uses the money. At the end, Gillian tore reports once knew he was not receive the money of fifty thousand dollars for not meeting the specified requirements.
ELEMENT 2 - THE EMOTIONAL RESPONSE:
In the literary criticism, we have to identify the main character Gillian. He's maybe not good person and him do not know how him manage this one thousand dollars in him life. He meet with various partners who have different backgrounds so they give different opinion but him not accept they opinion because their ideas do not same with the requirements. Gillian began to feel confused as to what he would do. Gillian feels he can to manage the money properly. But Mr. Gillian not affords to bear the responsibilities given by his uncle.
Morale:
Thus, the lesson from this story is that we should be well on our way towards financial planning matters that are beneficial. Let the money be properly planned so that the money available to spend on worthwhile things. Finally, we must be wise and clever in managing our own lives.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Chronologically
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Summary
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
By going from persons to person.
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?
Physical and Moral.
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 indeterminded? Is it fairly achieved?
The climax of the story is when the young man knows that he was given one thousand dollars to see if he is able to use the money wisely. If he is able to disposes the money wisely, he will be given $50,000.
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 naturally to the next?
The plot is united. Yes. Naturally to the next.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
Resolve. The improbable of the story is when the young man must disposes the money wisely with the good account on what he should spends on.
C. Characters
1. Who is/are the main character in the story? What does the main character look like?
The main character is Gillian. Gillian is the man who receives the money from his uncle and doesn't know what to do with it.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
Gillian lives at Broadway road. The story does not tell exactly where he lives or whom he's living with but I assume that he is living alone. He use to play grumbling as a way of living. He is supported by his uncle.
3. What are some chief characteristics (personally traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other character? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feeling; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
Gillian has less confidence, he relies on his friend's advices more than from himself. By that, he lost to have 50,000 more dollars. He interacted with others in the spite of advices from them. He has quite low degree of thought. Gillian is happy and contented with his life even before he got one thousand dollars to handle and accounted. Accounting that amount of money made his life became discontented.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
Gillian is facing the difficulties on how to handle one thousand dollars properly and how to manage the money well enough to accounted it. It wasn't resolved, instead lost him the 50,000 dollars.
5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
There were no developing character in this story.
D. Point of View
1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the character in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?
Third-person.
2.What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
Third person narrative can be more objective, less emotional and personal.
The author can cover all characters equally with no bias towards any one. No, it does not.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
The narrator is reliable because as a third person narrating, the narrator can cover the characters equally without being bias, thus, the narrator is reliable. No, there were no limitations. The narrator knew everything about the characters because the narrator told us how they thinks or feels.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
The author uses the point of view to primarily reveals the story. Never.
E. Imagery
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stands out in your reading of the story?
When Gillian realizes he lost 50,00 dollars.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy,or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
None, because this story isn't that much into the emotions of the readers.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
Sense of feelings. I associated the image with the loss of mine. The loss of something due to our actions is the worst of all lost. Author wants us to see feel about how a small thing can leads to something big.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
By having us feels the feelings of the character.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic of frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, to experience anger or fear?
It is none of those because this story is based on a moral lessons. This is more of teaching than to let us feel the emotions of the story.
3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?
The author wanted to show how the character would chose to make the useful of the one thousand dollars. The authors probably likes but mistrust the character because the author wants to see first if the character is able to handle and make a good use of the one thousand dollars.
The Pendulum-------By O. Henry
1. About the Author
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) more popularly known by his pen name O. Henry was one of the most celebrated masters of the short story in the 19th Century America. He had a chequered career as a book keeper, a draftsman in the land office and a teller in the Bank of Austin. He also tried his hand a cartooning, writing and editing before he made a mark as a writer. O. Henry’s stories have a deep human interest. He spins brief and strikingly dramatic tales involving his characters in such a manner that the element of surprise and a twist ending startle the reader.
Perspective: We take things for granted, esp. the love and care of dear ones and it’s only when they depart or leave us that we really appreciate their true value. But what happens, if after this awareness they come back in our life and give us another chance, do we really care more towards them, do we really give them time and love they deserve. This story explains it all in a very beautiful way.
2. Main Characters
John & Katy
John seems to be a man discontented with the drudgery of his routine life. He is always skeptical, desolate and angry.
Katy is harder to characterize because we only get John's perspective of her. She seems feminine, caring, possibly a bit of a nag since she is "wrathful" about his evenings out, and expressed "ire" when he returned.
The two seem to be going through the motions but missing the mark, and don't seem destined for much successs together as a happy couple.
Plot:
“The Pendulum” is the story of a married man who is terribly bored with the monotony of life. In his dull and unexciting life, it is the same routine everyday same office, same job, same public places and life, same friends, same events, movements, words and even food. Trapped in this circle of life, he lives on a repetitive life until one evening, when he retuned home his wife was missing. She leaves behind a note that she is going away to see her ailing mother. Used to be greeted by his wife in her name, predictable manner, Perkins is shocked by the emptiness of his apartment in the absence of his wife. This emptiness, heightened by disorderly things, scattered clothes and leftover packets of only reflect the emptiness of his wife infact all life around him. Unable to bear a break in his usual routine, and a life without Katy, the bored and lonely Perkins realizes his folly of neglecting his wife. Eating his cold dinner, he becomes painfully aware how Katy toils hard to keep his life in order and he has not acknowledged this. Full of remorse about leaving Katy home to go to play pool with his friends each day, he decides to be more caring. He decides to make amends by doing what he had never done. He resolves to cut down his outings with friends and his visits to McCloskey’s for a game of pool. He promised to take his wife out for amusement, to look after her, to love her and to pleas her as any husband ought to do for his soul mate. He would make up for all his neglect, he thinks. What was life without her, he wonders.
Even as he lost in these thoughts there comes Katy as suddenly as she had disappeared, her stupidly and soon all his resolves melt into nothingness and he finds himself a solace of habit again. He reaches for his hat and slips out of the door giving his usual mechanical reply to Katy a question asked in a complaining voice, “Now, where are you going, I’d like to know, John Perkins”, “Thoughtful I’d drop into McCloskey’s and play a game or two of pool with the fellows”, say she.
Analysis:
On one hand, the story shows that the thoughtless and inconsiderate people soon lose interest in their spouses and their mean and selfish approach robs their marriages of all romance. On the other hand the implied massage of the story is that weak minded people fail to reform themselves even when they realize their faults and are filled with remorse. Such people from one extreme to another and cannot stick to their solution. So I recommend others also to read this book and enjoy it.
How is the title of the story "The Pendulum" by O. Henry appropriate?
The pendulum is not associated in any way with the story....only the routine of John and pendulum are "alike".
A pendulum is a component on a clock that swings back and forth with every second in time. It is often used to refer things in life swinging from one extreme to the other. If you have a scale where on one side is John's distaste for his monotonous life, and on the other side is his regret, longing, and craving for that life back, then John swings from one side to the other quite quickly. So, John himself is like the pendulum, swinging back and forth between two opposite extremes, very quickly. You would not expect, that just seconds after his wife returns back home, that he would switch from feeling resolutely determined to be a better man, from fiercely longing for his wife, to wanting to immediately leave, returning back to his old ways. So, yes, John and the pendulum are very much alike, and that is the reason for the title itself.
The Pedulum
By O. Henry
1. About the Author
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) more popularly known by his pen name O. Henry was one of the most celebrated masters of the short story in the 19th Century America. He had a chequered career as a book keeper, a draftsman in the land office and a teller in the Bank of Austin. He also tried his hand a cartooning, writing and editing before he made a mark as a writer. O. Henry’s stories have a deep human interest. He spins brief and strikingly dramatic tales involving his characters in such a manner that the element of surprise and a twist ending startle the reader.
2. Main Characters
3. Book Review
“The Pendulum” is the story of a married man who is terribly bored with the monotony of life. In his dull and unexciting life, it is the same routine everyday same office, same job, same public places and life, same friends, same events, movements, words and even food. Trapped in this circle of life, he lives on a repetitive life until one evening, when he retuned home his wife was missing. She leaves behind a note that she is going away to see her ailing mother. Used to be greeted by his wife in her name, predictable manner, Perkins is shocked by the emptiness of his apartment in the absence of his wife. This emptiness, heightened by disorderly things, scattered clothes and leftover packets of only reflect the emptiness of his wife infact all life around him. Unable to bear a break in his usual routine, and a life without Katy, the bored and lonely Perkins realizes his folly of neglecting his wife. Eating his cold dinner, he becomes painfully aware how Katy toils hard to keep his life in order and he has not acknowledged this. Full of remorse about leaving Katy home to go to play pool with his friends each day, he decides to be more caring. He decides to make amends by doing what he had never done. He resolves to cut down his outings with friends and his visits to McCloskey’s for a game of pool. He promised to take his wife out for amusement, to look after her, to love her and to pleas her as any husband ought to do for his soul mate. He would make up for all his neglect, he thinks. What was life without her, he wonders.
Even as he lost in these thoughts there comes Katy as suddenly as she had disappeared, her stupidly and soon all his resolves melt into nothingness and he finds himself a solace of habit again. He reaches for his hat and slips out of the door giving his usual mechanical reply to Katy a question asked in a complaining voice, “Now, where are you going, I’d like to know, John Perkins”, “Thoughtful I’d drop into McCloskey’s and play a game or two of pool with the fellows”, say she.
My Opinion:
On one hand, the story shows that the thoughtless and inconsiderate people soon lose interest in their spouses and their mean and selfish approach robs their marriages of all romance. On the other hand the implied massage of the story is that weak minded people fail to reform themselves even when they realize their faults and are filled with remorse. Such people from one extreme to another and cannot stick to their solution. So I recommend others also to read this book and enjoy it.
How is the title of the story "The Pendulum" by O. Henry appropriate?
The pendulum is not associated in any way with the story....only the routine of John and pendulum are "alike".
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