Clue #5

1.What is the theme of "About Effie"
Our group was confused of the theme, because we couldn't find the reason Effie crying is the climax of the story. I do not have much proof why this is the theme, but in my opinion, I think its something about waiting or the patience of waiting. Because it was all about waiting for "him" in the story. So I think theme is; You need to have patience if you want something to happen.


2.Find a verse from the Bible that relates to the theme of "About Effie" and include it in your written responses..
Ps 27:14 Wait for the LORD; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.

1. Who is Effie waiting for?
According to the story, it is called a person or thing call "him". "Him" only comes when there is thunder, lightening, and music. I'm not really sure about who "him" is because there was barely any characterization of the person. However, according to the clue sheet, this is related to some Christ imagery. So I think it could related to Jesus.

2.Write three separate sentences from the story that might symbolize Jesus and explain why Timothy Findley might have written these into his story.

"Besides, it's not just me's after"
God loves everyone who believes him. It's not one person he cares after.

"Of course not. Don't be silly. Why if I went to Timbuctoo he'd just as soon find me there. Or in Madagascar even, I don't have to wait around in any old Toronto.
God can find us anywhere.
"This man. This man she's waiting for."
This isn't something directly connected, but I think she is waiting for Jesus, because he is going to come back to save us.

I'm not sure, but since he is the author. He gets to choose what he wants to put in about God.


3.Can non-Christian authors reveal truth about God's world?
I believe that you don't need to be Christian writer to write about God's world.Because I think that non-christian writer could write something and have some Christian traits. It's just how the reader understands the story. Because I didn't have the idea of the story having Christian beliefs in it until I was thinking of the clue questions, but after thinking of it, it made sense.

Clue #4

1. Who is a "character" in your life (a real-life person) you admire?why do admire this person?

I'm not sure if I admire anyone, but if I admire someone I think it would be my dad. There are a few reasons, but the main reason would be is his work ethic. My dad knows how to work, he knows that if he has to do his job he does it. I procrastinate a little while I work, but my dad would concentrated on his work. Another reason would be is that he likes children. When I was young, he always actively played with me unlike some other fathers. Those are things that I want to follow.

1.What specific clues can setting reveal about the theme of a short story?

Setting is one of most basic things in a story. So I think it is a great "clue" for a short story to reveal a theme. It may not control the whole story and characters, but it is a big influence to the story. For instance, you read old Korean folk stories, you can know that the theme is related to the setting that Korea was in that time. Like if the setting is Korea in the past, and talks about adults, the theme will come out as things like "respect your elders", since age is an important quality to people in Korea.


2.How does an author drop clues about characters and how their actions lead you to the theme of a story?

I think the author gives clues by using indirect characterization. Indirect characterization is showing the characters traits by their actions, thoughts, dialogues, and others. Giving clues to the charcter's traits. These traits can lead to even the theme. For example, in Harry Potter one of Harry's characterizations was love, and one of theme lead to "Love is a powerful thing".

3.What is the strongest setting you haver ever encountered in your own life?

I think that TCIS is one of the strongest setting in life. Because before I came to a TCIS, I was just a normal person going to school in Korea. Except the fact that I was lived in the US for more than half of my life. I just went to hagwon, didn't do any sports, and was just a shy guy. After I came here, I became more active, I started to play sports, becoming less shy, and having nice friends.I think that coming to TCIS, was giving me a chance to do things that I wanted to do. Like its hard to do sports while you want to concentrate on your academics in Korea, but in TCIS they gave us chances to participate, and he gave me a chance to know him better, from events like SEW.

Clue #3

What is a literary theme?
The theme of a story is the universal idea about human nature that the the writer wants to tell us. It gives you a view of what the author agrees about life. Many subjects used for a theme would be topics like love. Many people may have different insights about love, and the theme of the story about love would be just the authors view of love.


Examples
1. Love is like a flower, a flower blooms for a while and then withers.
It gives us an idea that love is temporary
2.Imagination makes a person dangerous
I heard it in a movie, doesn't remember the movie thought. The unlimited imagination makes people dangerous.
3. Every story has an ending.

3.In your opinion, what is the theme of God's plan for this world?
I think that God had a theme for making this world because he loves us. He all made us for a purpose, and I'm sure that he did for the world. In the Bible, it talks about how we should love many times, so its about our love to God. So that's why he sacrificed Jesus for us, and why he made the world.


1.What is the theme of your life, as you see it right now?
I think the theme of my life is currently, you choose how you want to live your life. I think that I am living in a very busy life. I do not have a lot of extra time to do things just for comfort. After school, I have to either go to volleyball practice, or practice basketball by myself, or study in the library. I have massive loads of homework. Travel for volleyball games. But I believe that all of these are going to pay back. For example, while I do homework and volleyball, it makes me spend a big portion of my time. However, if I didn't want to do my homework or sports, I don't need to do it. The things I do get for doing these activities are: I get to travel around with the team to get more experience, become more athletic and fit, make new friends and it will helps me with college. I'm doing all this hard work because I know that it is all going to help me and I enjoy to do it. Your life isn't chosen by anyone, its made just the way you wanted it to be.





1.How can you figure out a theme in a short story?
When you want to find out the theme of the story, you can just keep reading until you find some meaning in it, but there is a process for it. First, you look at the title to find a theme, it gives you basic idea of whats going to happen. The shot film "Bunny" gave us an idea its going to be something about a bunny, and the main character is a bunny. Second, looks for the main conflict and character, what is the internal and external conflicts that they face, you can find what the character faces. Third, you looks at the climax, and what it solves in the story. Finally the resolution and how the story ends, usually as the story ties up, it gives an idea of what the story was about.



2.What is the theme of "The Utterly Perfect Murder" and how does this theme relate to your own life.

I think the theme of the "The Utterly Perfect Murder" is a bad relationship is still a relationship. Doug Spaulding is this small guy who was always picked by Ralph Underhill. Ralph Underhill made fun of him. He made unfairs deals, he joked around with him, and he felt like he didn't really care about him as much as Doug cared about him. Doug wanted revenge, so he went looking for after like 40 years. Even though its a bad relationship, he still remembers him. You can still hate him, but if you still remember after fourty years, I think that Ralph Underhill is a important part of his life. Also for Ralph, he still remembers him after thrity years. I don't remember 90% of the people that I met in my elementary school because they werent really special to me. However for the people who felt really special to me, good or bad, I remember them very clearly.

3.How is a moral of a story different from a theme?

The moral of a story is like a life lesson that the story wants to tell you. The theme is the universal idea that the author has about human nature. You can think of the difference of the two devices as theme is a little broad then morals. Morals are usually lessons that usually everyone could agree about. For example, respect your parents. It is a moral, because is talking about how we should act and it is a lesson, and everyone would usually agree with morals. In my opinon, a theme is a point of view how you see a topic. For instance, when you talk about love, many people have different thoughts about love. Love is sad, love is short but life is long. It is usualy more arguable then a moral.

4.Read John 3:16.Is this a theme statement of God's story.How does this relate to the truth you might find in literature.

Yes, because its explaining that he loved us so much that he sacrificed Jesus for us. It's talking about how much he loves us. For everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. I think there is some relations between the verses theme and literature, or even life.For example, I remeber reading the Harry Potter. In the last book, there was a part where Harry had to sacrifice himself for others, he would need bravery for it, but since he loves everyone so much, he sacrificed him self. As Harry sacrificed himself, he did it because he needed to do it to make other people live. If he didn't love the people there, he wouldn't of have sacrificed himself. I'm not really sure, but there were many books that had similar moments.

Clue #6

1a. Define metaphor and simile

Metaphors is a figurative language that uses comparision, it does not use as or like.

Similes is another type of figurative language that uses comparision, but they use as or like unlike metaphors.
1b. (10 sent.) Why do authors use figurative language?

I think when you use figurative language, it makes me literature more beautiful. It helps the reader to think more when they read. If you use too much literal language, it becomes less interesting for the reader. Because we limit the ideas that the readers can think of when they read literature. Figurative language gives us a better idea of the details of the story. For example, you say "I ate too much pizza, I'm full.", you don't know how full the authors wants describe. You only know that he ate a lot of pizza and he is full. But we don't know how much he ate, or how full he is. However, if you use figurative language to describe the detail, you can do something like "I had millions of pieces of pizza, my stomach is like a bomb that is going to explode". You know that he is very full and he ate a lot of pizza. Since figurative language uses things like comparison and exaggeration you can get a better meaning, because it you could compare things to what it is describing to get a better understanding.
2. Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet
The noise is music to my ears
The sea is a hungry dog

3.Matthew 5:13
13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men
4. There are many metaphors in the Bible, but I this is the one that I found in Bible Gateway. This was a confusing verse for me. But when I thought about what I studied I realized that this was a parable that I had studied in eighth grade. I didn't get what it mean during eighth grade though. So I researched the internet for ideas, it gave me an idea that salt might be describing you faith. This metaphor is explaining our faith. If it tasteless salt, it is useless. Jesus is showing us that pretending to be faithful isn't right, so it is the same as nothing.

Olleh, I am smarter than a calculator. When I play basketball, I leap like a frog, I guard like an alligator, and I wish I was lightening quick. I could beat people in fifteen on one by dunking on each of them, the basketball obeys my orders. I can be loud as a siren when I sports and when I feel energized, but I am as quiet as a ninja. I sleep like a sloth, and when I can't become a zombie. I fix computers better than Bill Gates. I can make people awkward better than a first date.

Clue #1

1.When you think about beauty, we think of something that externally nice and pleasing. So like when people say you have a beautiful face, it means that you like nice. So thats why people try to do plastic surgery. But I think that true beauty is whats in you in the inside. So a beautiful person would not be someone who did all these different kinds of makeups, but would be someone who has a pure heart, who knows what is more valuable. Sometimes we think about our about our external beauty too much, that we forget about what true beauty is. So we start to act cold or unpleasent to people who do not look good. We should not do that and go back to what we should really do, that is beauty.Even the Bible tells us that interior beauty is more important.

2.Proverbs 31:30 - "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting: but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised

1 Samuel 16:7 - "The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart

1. Reader’s response or personal response is a way of reading literature by bringing in your personal experiences while you read. Reader’s response focuses on your personal thoughts, so it is like reading through color lens. When you do use reader’s response, you have to connect to meanings and words constantly. Things you have to find would be personality traits, experiences, and many different connections. How you do readers response is you first read the book. You should read it carefully so you can find more connections and words in the text. Since this is your personal thoughts or experiences, you cannot be wrong on making connections. So if you have an idea, do not be afraid because you might think it sounds weird, and does not make sense.
2. When you read many different kinds of literature, you get to learn more about the world. First using the reader’s response gives us many different kinds of points of view. As you look into literature, you can see how different people could write their thoughts about a simple thing. Reader’s response would give truths like when you always believed the Earth was flat, but a book teaches you that it is actually round. As you read and make connections, your thoughts can become universal as time goes on. Second is literature usually has a theme or moral about life. Usually, when you use reader’s response, you can get a little more out of the book than when you are doing it because you read more carefully and you can understand things better if you connect while you read.
3. I think it is important to use reader’s response because when you use reader’s response, it helps you to connect more to the text and it makes the reader more interested. First, when you connect to the text, you can think it as it is your perspective. That helps us to understand the story more clearly because you know how it feels like in a situation like this. For example, if you think of Marigolds, it is easier for us to understand since we are all teenagers; we know how we cannot control our anger easily. So it felt so like ourselves. Second, it gets us interested. As you actively connect to the text, you can find many small connections that can relate to you in many ways. That can causes us to read the story deeper, because you can believe you are very connected to the protagonist
4. I read a book called Flags of Our Fathers. It is a book about the World War II, and it is about the people who had raised the flags in the island of Iwa Jima. The actually picture of the flag raising is quite a famous picture, if you have seen any pictures of that The book had almost nothing in common with me. The background was very different and I have never experienced anything related to war before. However, they were ordinary people who had experience war, and could not forget the shock. I felt connected to that, even though I never went to war and seen those terrible moments, I know how it feels to trying going over things that shocked me. However, these people were haunted by memories that were too horrible, like one person in the story; he cried every night for a while because he lost his friend in war and after seeing all those people die. This really gave me an idea of how scary war is, and how dangerous the world is right now.