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The Ambitious Guest (Exposition) (Aslı Katak) (Students: Yağmur, Gamze, Fatih, Ayşegül, Esin, Sude)

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The Ambitious Guest (Exposition) (Aslı Katak) (Students: Yağmur, Gamze, Fatih, Ayşegül, Esin, Sude)

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Hello everyone! We wanted to analyze the story telling techniques from “The Ambitious Guest” by Nathaniel Hawthorne!

Let’s start with the exposition part:

In this part of the story, the narrator simply talks about a family and the current situation of their living conditions . If we need to summarize it,

“This family had found happiness in the worst place in all of New England. They had built their home high up in the White Mountains, where the wind blows violently all year long

The family lived in an especially cold and dangerous spot. Stones from the top of the mountain above their house would often roll down the mountainside.

No other family lived near them on the mountain. But this family was never lonely. They enjoyed each other's company, and often had visitors.

Lonely travelers, crossing the mountains on foot, would step into the house to share a hot meal. sometimes, the wind became so wild and cold that these strangers would spend the night with the family. The family offered every traveler who stopped at their home a kindness that money could not buy.”

As we can understand from this part of the story, narrator did not talk anything about the rising action. And only explained what’s going on with this family, and how dangerous the place they’re living in. Also talked about their happiness even though they’re living in such dangerous spot. And talked about their visitors of course. There is not much happening in this part. Nothing interesting… yet. But things gets interesting in the rising action part. Which leading us to the thought of “Maybe the exposition part is written with “The Mountain” story telling technique since things getting interesting in the next parts of the story.” Well, this thought is not wrong, but there is one more thing! And It’s “Nested Loops” technique since the story goes around the “Living in a dangerous spot” situation.

That’s our analyze from the exposition part! :)

(Students: Yağmur, Gamze, Fatih, Ayşegül, Esin, Sude)

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It’s time for the Rising Action part,

In this part , The young man is taken to the home. The father of the house talks about their life in the mountains. And the young man was getting ready to tell his secret.

‘’The father took the young man's travel bag. "Are you going to Vermont?" the older man asked.

"Yes, to Burlington," the traveler replied. "I wanted to reach the valley tonight. But when I saw the light in your window, I decided to stop. I would like to sit and enjoy your tire and your company for a while As the young man took his place by the fire, something like heavy footsteps was heard

outside. It sounded as if someone was running down the side of the mountain, taking enormous steps.

The father looked out one of the windows. "That old mountain has thrown another stone at us again. He must have been afraid we would forget him. He sometimes shakes his head and makes us think he will come down on top of us," the father explained to the young man.

'"But we are old neighbors," he smiled. " And we manage to get along together pretty well. Besides, I have made a safe hiding place outside to protect us in case a slide brings the mountain down on our heads.

As the father spoke, the mother prepared a hot meal for their guest. While he ate, he talked freely to the family, as if it were his own.

This young man did not trust people easily. Yet on this evening, something made him share his deepest secret with these simple mountain people’’

In this part of story. The young man was taken to home and the family took care of the young man. Father explained their life in mountains and what they had lived. At the end, The Family was happy in their life although life’s difficulties. The young man felt good in that house. In the end of the part, the young man prepared himself to telling his secret. So, this story can be written with ‘’In Medias Res’’ technique. Because writer didn’t tell us the secret directly. The secret was hidden in 3 sentences. Writer wanted to make us feel more curious.

This is our analyze for the rising action part. Hope you all like it!

(Students: Yağmur, Gamze, Fatih, Ayşegül, Esin, Sude)

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We think that this story (the ambitious guest) was written using "The Mountain" story telling technique.
We're going to explain the development part in this paper. In this part of the story we get to understand the morale of the story (that being "wanting to be remembered" or "the fear of being forgotten") and build up last bits of tention before the dramatic ending (the signature of "The Mountain" story telling technique) happens, we listen to everyone's fears and wishes for postmortem, e.g. Father's wish of a gravestone over his grave to show that he lived an honest life or the Old woman's fear of not being buried in best of her clothing.

To summarize the part;

Even though he didn't trust people that easily, for some reason that evening young man decided to share his secret with the family, his secret was that he was ambitious (this is also where the title of the story comes from), meaning that he wanted to do something remarkable/memorable/monumental and not be forgotten, he had a fear of being forgotten as we can understand from his own words "So far, I have done nothing. If I disappeared tomorrow from the face of earth, no one would know anything about me. No one would ask 'Who was he? Where did he go?' But I cannot die until I reach my destiny. Then let death come! I will have built my monument!", With these few sentences he also mentions a "destiny" now we can't possibly be sure if that is the destination he was heading to or some other goal but we think that it was most likely the place he was heading to before he had decided to accommodate in the family's house for the night but anyways, that's besides the point.
Athat, all the family members start sharing their fears and wishes for postmortem like mentioned before the summary.

(Students: Yağmur, Gamze, Fatih, Ayşegül, Esin, Sude)

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Last but not least, here it is the falling action part!! Now let’s take a look at it, shall we?

𝐀 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐭  𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬.

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞!"

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞.

“Without any  explanation  or anything, we can see that there is a tragedy happening. A landslide occurs and everyone starts to panic, trying to run away. The family manages to hide in the secret spot the father built before.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.

"And the reason why we think ‘False Start’ has been used as the story telling technique is that because of the last sentence of this paragraph. We expected it to destroy the house too but it didn’t, surprisingly.”

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.

“First a landslide, now the house is on fire. When we just thought it was going to end with only that, another tragedy occurs; meaning, not only ‘False Start’ , we have another story telling technique there is used here. It kinda reminds of “The Mountain” story telling technique, doesn’t it?"

(Students: Ferda, Melisa, Nisa, Esma)

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Osman Teacher( E.Naz, Begüm, Ebrar, Nisa Nur)

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Osman Teacher( E.Naz, Begüm, Ebrar, Nisa Nur)

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Hello everyone! We wanted to determine the storytelling techniques from”the Gift of the Magi”by O.Henry.

Let’s start with the exposition part:

In this part of the story we are seeing a poor but happy family.They wanted to buy gifts for each other because the next day is would be Christmas.But there is a big problem.Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents.That was all.And it’s not enough to buy something nice and rare.So she must earn some money but how?The next part will be the answer of this.

In this part,the writer seems to want to explain that poverty is not related to happiness.And we think so.Also the writer wanted us to get excited fort he next part.We think he’s very good at this.In this part we can easily see the bound of love between the main characters of this story.Because both of them wanted to buy something nice and rare things for each other.

We think this part can be written with”the Mountain”storytelling techniques.Because there are too many dramas an feelings is in this part.Also the events would be more interesting in the next part.

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Let’s continue with the action part!

In the exposition part we said”Della must earn some money but how?”And now we can see the answer of this question: Della was so desperate to buy her lover a fine and rare gift because she didn't have enough money. While dancing down the street, she stumbled upon a sign by chance. The sign said "Madame Sofronie. Hair Goods of AllKinds”.Della had beautiful hair and it was her most precious thing. But without a second thought, she walked into the store and offered to sell her very special hair.That was the answer.She earned some money and with a happy expression she went to buy a gift for her lover.She found a beautiful chain- simple round rings of silver.It was perfect for Jim’s gold watch.At the same time Jim was also looking for a nice gift.He found a comb for Della’s beautiful and precious hair.It was perfect for her.But Jim didin’t have enough money for buy this comb.So he sold his special gold watch.(Which was his family heirloom.)

In this part, we can clearly see the love of both people for each other. Because they both gave up what was most precious to each other.Their love more important than any stuff and we think this is very lovely. We think this part can written with “the Mountain”storytelling tecniques.Because as in the exposition part there are too many dramas and feelings in this part too.

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The Ambitious Guest - The Mountain - Teacher Martina 

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Hello everyone! We wanted to analyze the climax part of the story - "The Ambitious Guest" (by Nathaniel Hawthorne) by using the story technique - "Sparklines"

First, let's go over the exposition part:
In this story part, the storyteller explains how the family up in the cold White Mountains in New England met an interesting young stranger who appeared during the winter wind:

"On that December evening, the wind came rushing down the mountain. It seemed to stop at their house to knock at the door before it roared down into the valley.

The family fell silent for a moment. But then they realized that someone really was knocking at their door. The oldest girl opened the door and found a young man standing in the dark.

The old grandmother put a chair near the fireplace for him. The oldest daughter gave him a warm, shy smile. And the baby held up its little arms to him.

"This fire is just what I needed," the young man said. in my face for the last two hours." "The wind has been blowing in my face for the last two hours.”

In this part of the story, the family is wandering who was knocking at their door. As soon they opened the door of the home, in front of them stood a young man who was soon welcomed in the home because of the family tradition that was running around from the day they moved to the White Mountains. At the end of the story part, young stranger thanks the family for welcoming him indoors and explains them how the wind was so huge that it covered his face for two hours. After covering this part of the story, we decided that the closest technique that resembles it was the "Sparklines" because the family hoped that the wind shook the door, but it was a young (man) stranger who was looking for a place to spend the evening.

This is how we analized the climax part of the story. We hope that you'll appreciate it! 😉

Students: Ivan, Marijan, Zvonimir, Dominik and Domagoj