How to answer questions 101

How to answer a question 101

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Q. Did the children mean to leave Margot in the closet, or did they only forget about her in their excitement? Use evidence from the story to support your point of view.

They only left Margot in there because they forgot about her in their happiness because when the sun has gone away then they remember about Margot and are ashamed that they left her in there when the sun came out in the last 7 years. "They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away: They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily. They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale."This quote shows that they are ashamed and can't look at each others eyes. This shows that they understand that the sun meant much more to her than to them and they had taken it away from her. 

Characters

• Flat characters are characters that don't have lots of characteristics.
• Round characters are characters that have lots of characteristics.
• Foil characters are characters that are in the same situation as the protagonist but make different decision.
• Hero/protagonist characters are characters that make the difficult decisions in the story.
• Antagonist characters are characters that are against the protagonist.
• Catalyst characters are characters who change the story when introduced.
• Archetype characters are characters that have 2 or 3 characteristics.
• Caricature characters are characters that have one big characteristic through out the story.

Clockwork questions

From vocabulary.com.

• An optimist is someone who always sees the bright side of any situation.
• Pessimists always sees the worst in every thing.
• oscillate is when something moves back and forth in a steady motion.
• An engine needs each of its part to work. It has gears which have wheels. Each wheel has cogs.
• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer used as an orchestral instrument
• A dynasty is a series of leaders in the same family, like the British Royal Family.
• Heir is a person who takes the family job from someone older.
• It is the look some one gives when they are angry.

2)Karl

• He is described as a selfish clockwork-maker.
• He thinks that none of his ideas on what to make for the clock tower were good.
• He acts selfishly.
• He changes and becomes more interesting and suspicious.
• Karl is a foil because he is in the same situation as Gretl but makes different decisions.example: he has to chose whether to do something good or bad.
• In the end of the story Karl dies.

Gretl

• She is described as a young and helpful girl.
• She thinks that she can help every one with their problems.
• She acts very caring and helpful.
• She becomes more and more noticeable as the story builds.
• She is a protagonist because she acts as a hero.
• In the end of the story she realizes that she can't help everyone with their problems.

Fritz

• He is described as a good but afraid writer
• He thinks that his story needs to be perfect from the start to the end.
• He acts very scared and amazed.
• He he becomes crazier as the story goes.
• He is a foil because he is in the same situation as Gretl but makes different decisions. example: he has to choose between good and bad.
• In the end he moves to another part of Germany.

3)pg16: by saying artistic temperament he means does not get on with the job and fusses about it. That it is not important and is a bit pointless, because of how he writes the rest of the chapter like it is nonsense and says"artistic temperament what nonsense there is no such thing  Only amateurs have temperaments. Real artists get on with the job and don't fuss about it."

4)pg49: Princess Mariposa stood at the palace window, she heard the chiming of the cathedral clock, and said “I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”, and when she had said those words she felt her heart lift.

• as true as a clock Is a simile because it uses the word "as" and compares two things.
• She felt her heart lift her heart didn't really lift or she won't be alive. 

5)

• In the old days, when this story took place, time used to run by clockwork.
• His mainspring was bound to weaken, his escapement to become clogged with dust.
• Tick,tock,tick,tock! Bit by bit they move, and tick us steadily on towards our grave.
• Instead, there was a little piece of clockwork: just a few cogs and springs and a balance wheel, attached in subtle ways to the Princes veins and tick-tick-ticking away merrily, in perfect time to the lashing of his arm.
• Princess Mariposa stood at the palace window, she heard the chiming of the cathedral clock, and said “I wish I had a child as sound as a bell and as true as a clock”, and when she had said those words she felt her heart lift.

 6)  works like clockwork

• Whinds the reader. I think the author chose this because it makes the story interesting.
• keeps the reader ticking. I think the author chose this because it makes the story interesting, and makes the reader continue reading without stoping.

Does not work like clockwork

• The story does not work exactly as expected I think the author thinks by not making it completely like clockwork it will be more interesting.
• The story is not precise I think the author thinks by not making it completely like clockwork it will be more interesting, if he makes precise it will get very boring.

Scholarship jacket

The scholarship jacket is a realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

Realistic fiction;
Coming of age;

All summer in a day

All summer in a day a suspense, sci-fi and a coming of age story.

Suspense:

 She'd better hurry; we'll miss it!" 
This is suspense because  we don't know if the teacher will there in time.
"Behind the closet door was only silence."
Again this is suspense because you don't understand why it is silent. 

Coming of Age:

"They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale."

This is coming of age because they could not meet each other's glasses because they had realized what they had done wrong.
"Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain"
This is coming of age because she was different but at the end the other realized that she was not so different and how cruel they were

Sci-fi:

"And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus"
This is sci-fi because it is impossible and unreasonable to live in Venus.
"It had been raining for seven years"
This is sci-fi because it is impossible for it to rain for seven years.

This quote explain and prove how it is a suspense,sci-fi and a dimming of age story

List story

Raymond's run;                              Is realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

Scholarship jacket;                         Is realistic fiction and a coming of age story.

All summer in a day;                      Is suspense, sci-fi and a coming of age story.

The landlady;                                  Is realistic fiction, suspense and a mystery story.

Clockwork;                                     Is fantasy, suspense, mystery and a sci-fi story

Sound of thunder;                           Is a sci-fi and a suspense story.

The landlady

 The landlady is realistic fiction, suspense and a mystery story.

suspense;
“Oh, it’s the perfect age! Mr Mulholland was also seventeen. But I think he was a trifle shorter than you are, in fact I’m sure he was, and his teeth weren’t quite so white. You have the most beautiful teeth, MrWeaver, did you know that?”
This is a suspense quote because her knowing Weaver that much info how he looked how white his teeth how old he is while he is dead gets you on the edge of your seat
"His skin was just like a baby's"
This is a suspense quote because it gets you on the edge of your seat because we don't know why.
Realistic fiction;

Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o’clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. 
This is a realistic fiction a because London is a real place and Billy might be a real person and realistic fiction stories are mostly about places and people that are realistic.

Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp not six yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed notice propped up against the glass in one of the upper panes. 
This is realistic because in London their must be a plas like this where people come eat and sleep.

Mystery;
“You know something?” Billy said. ‘Something that’s really quite extraordinary about all this?”

This is a mystery because Billy's now trying to find out what the lady did, he is investigating.
“That parrot,” he said at last. “You know something?

 This is a mystery quote because Billy is trying to investigate.

This quotes indicate that this story is a mystery,realistic fiction and suspense story.