The crowning of arthur

1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
-- the story is about Arthur, how he was born, taken care of and how did he pulled the sword out. The main events is probably the tournament, in which one's muct pulled the sword out to be the king, and arthur did and become the king.

2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, are they arrangeding another way?

--is it arrange chronologically in order, because the story starts from the past in which king uther likes igraine and they both have a son, later, when the arthur the son was grown he pulled out the sword and was crowned the king.

3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, sotries within the story used?
-- was basically a summarize version of "Le Morte d' Arthur", "The Crowning of Arthur" , There is  no flashback.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
-- It is fast-paced because the story itself comes from Le Morte d' Arthur as I mentioned.

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
-- The thoughts of King Uther is probably the one moving the plot forward, the liking that he have to Igraine.

6. What are the conflicts in the plot?Are the physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resoled? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
-- The conflict is king uther die and there is no king, by deciding who should be the king they set a tournament of pulling the sword, there are physical because no one has a strenght enough to pull out the sword. When arthur did pull out the sword the conflict was resolved and he was decided to be a KING.

 

7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur?

--The climax was arthur pull out the sword from stone.

 

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 unity, it is relevant because it relates to the end of story, the plot leads naturally to next stage.
9. What use does the story make of chanceand coincidence? Are these occurrences ouse to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
-- The story is make of chance because the sword is pull out of chance as the book mentioned, no nobles could pull out the sword, but arthur did so it is a pure chance. Yes, the story resolve when arthur pull the out sword successfully.

The crowning of Arthur

The age of orphans (summary)

THE BIRD BOY

The boy wants nothing more than his maman’s lap and a view of the birds that soar over his Kurdish village. Nameless, impressionable, and watchful, the boy soon becomes a man in a mountaintop ritual with his papa, uncles, and cousins. And as a man, he must join the male villagers when they march to war against the shah’s army. But the Kurds, fierce protectors of their homeland against centuries of invasion, fall to the shah; the boy’s father is massacred before his eyes. As the only survivor, adopted by the very soldiers that murdered his father, the boy begins a new life as Reza Pejman Khourdi - conscripted soldier for the new Iran. 

Ten years later, in Tehran, Reza is notorious within the Iranian army for his cruelty against Kurds, so-called rebels who fight against an Iran they cannot believe in. Promoted to captain, Reza is ordered to find a Tehrani bride and move back to Kermanshah, his homeland, to enforce the shah’s rule. Reza tells no one he is a Kurd, suppressing all memories of his maman’s tenderness and his baba’s bravery. He weds Meena, secretly hoping to banish his orphan loneliness in her genteel breeding. 

The Age of OROHANS