https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w poster-type project for the short story The Test en-us 2017-08-30 14:03:10 UTC 2025-11-03 13:11:26 UTC hello@padlet.com 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682276 The plot goes as follows: Robert Proctor was driving with his mother on a usual, calm day. when out of no where, a blue convertible grazes him and sets him off course. He tries to regain control, but can't. As he's flailing around, a car with two people in it (it's driver and the sleeping girl) crash into him, killing him, his mom, the driver, and the sleeping girl. That's when he wakes up in a chair with the uniformed man standing over him. What Robert was in was a simulation to get his drivers license. He failed and because he felt no remorse after the death of the sleeping girl and the driver, he was dragged off to get "fixed". The exposition in The Test would be in the very beginning while Robert was relaxed and driving. The conflict was the accident itself and how he was going to get out of it. The rising action was while he was in the accident. The climax was when the car hit him and he woke up. The falling action was when he woke up and realized it was a simulation. The resolution was when he got dragged off to get "fixed".]]> 2017-08-30 14:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682276 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682454 These are the two literary elements I thought had a big role in this story:

Exposition- Exposition is the setting up of the time , setting , place and/or tone. It's used effectively in The Test because it does a really good job of making you think that nothing will go wrong. so it makes the accident unexpected. 


Tone- Tone is the overall feel of a story. It's used effectively in The Test because it shifts unexpectedly in multiple places. In the beginning , it's calming and relaxing. In the middle, it's suspenseful and jumpy. towards the end, it's calming again( in the sense that it's relieving to see Robert unharmed) but jumps right back into the terror when it's revealed he's a goner. ]]> 2017-08-30 14:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682454 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682531 The theme of The Test is to take death seriously. It's described in the story in how Robert p. was dragged off for not feeling remorse for the people he "killed". ]]> 2017-08-30 14:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682531 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682575 Robert Proctor-he is the main character and ultimately the disturbed one. 

Uniformed man- he's the man that runs the drivers ed system.

mom-the simulated mother of Robert.

sleeping girl-one of the two that Robert "killed" in his car crash.

driver- the other of the two that was "killed"]]> 2017-08-30 14:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183682575 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183695493 2017-08-30 14:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183695493 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183799203 These are the three discussion questions:

Do you think that us as a culture now are desensitized to death? explain why .

If you lived in this culture, how well would you do?

Do you think it was right for Robert to be dragged off? explain why.]]> 2017-08-30 19:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183799203 204596 https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183804442 by Theodore L. Thomas]]> 2017-08-30 20:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/204596/ijygazgny48w/wish/183804442