SHORT STORY ANALYSIS (15 points)

Name: Matthew Jedrzycki Section: 1004

Short Story Title: Contribution

Directions: Read the short story given to you. Complete the entire table for ELEMENTS; however, for
the PLOT LINE, your teacher will assign ONE part of the plot for you to analyze. In your plot line
analysis, ensure to explain in details what is asked for. Please edit your work before submission.
Upload your analysis in your individual GDrive folder.

ELEMENTS
(​Identify​ what is asked for in each number)

1. Main characters

The shoe-mender:Protagonist

The owner of the shoe :Protagonist

2. Setting

Where: In the the mender's workshop

When: End of 1987 to the Beginning of 1988

3. Plot Summary

A shoe mender waited for months for a big payment from the shoe owner and debated with
himself if he should sell the shoes or not, but in the end he decided to fix his shoes for free.

4. Type of Conflict

Man vs Himself because he is debating with himself if he should sell the shoes or wait for
the owner
 5. Theme / Moral (lesson)

Don't claim ownership of something that isn't yours for instance, if someone told you to
hold on to something for them, it does not mean that it is yours.

6. POINT OF VIEW
​It’s the third point of view because the narrator used pronouns to talk about the characters for
example “he seemed a calm,patient,thorough, and hardworking person.”
It’s the limited type of third point of view because the narrator only expresses the feelings of one
character out of the two in the story.

PLOT LINE
(​BRIEFLY explain ​what is asked for in each number)

4. FALLING ACTION
A. What is the story’s falling action?
The falling action of the story is after the owner appeared to reclaim his shoes and​ revealed
himself as the owner

B. How would you change the falling action if you were the writer? Why?
​I would make the two characters fight, the reason being the shoe owner notices a stain on his
shoes just to make the falling action of the story a little bit more entertaining. (the reason for the
fight is quite shallow; how will this change affect the theme?)
C. Identify ONE figure of speech or idiom used by the writer in this part of the plot, and
explain its meaning.
I believe “The shoe mender’s jaw dropped” is a hyperbole which is a type of figure of speech,
because the narrator used exaggeration to describe the shoe mender’s feeling of being shocked
by the presence of the owner of the pair of shoes.

REVIEW answers
letter B does not have substance at all

7/10

- check tense (summary)

- answer in B is shallow
- answer in C: idiom
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