Analysis of a short story
I. SETTING
1. One or two sentences to summarize.
2. Where and when. Provide relevant background information.
II. CHARACTERS (Choose one main character)
1. Tell the role he/she plays
2. Describe the characters
3. What methods of characterization were used to help you to understand the character? Explain.
4. In what way if any, does the character change by the end of the story?
5. How do you feel about the character? Why?
III. CONFLICT and PLOT
1. What kind of conflict is present?
2. Describe the scene that expresses the major conflict and show how it leads to further complication.
3. Describe the scene that involves the climax and shows how it leads to the resolution of the conflict.
4 Tell how the story ends.
IV. THEME
1. Give the author’s message
2. How does the theme apply to people in general?
3. How does the theme apply to your personality?
V. YOUR OPINION
1. Tell whether or not you liked the story, and why.
2. How did the story reinforce or change any attitude an opinion you may have had?
3. Would you recommend the story to others? Why or why not?

I. SETTING
1. The story happened at the mountain where Awiyao, Lumnay and the rest of their tribes live.
2. The upper horizontal log which served as the edge of the head high threshold. At the mountains.
II. CHARACTERS (Choose one main character)
LUMNAY
1. She is the ex-wife of Awiyao. A wife of Awiyao within seven harvest periods yet that can’t bear a child.
2. Lumnay is a good, loving, caring, patient wife to her husband Awiyao even though her husband marries another woman for him to have a child.
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4. At the end of the story, Lumnay become stronger and brave in facing the reality of life without the most important person in her life which is Awiyao. At the end she doesn’t lose hope until she is alive.
5. I feel pity for Lumnay because she sacrifices