ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY by Marie https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92 en-us 2023-04-12 08:14:52 UTC 2023-04-13 03:14:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Characters https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551330638 The Poor Farmer (young Farmer)- Protagonist
The Aged Mother 
The Governor (despotic leader)- Antagonist ]]> 2023-04-12 08:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551330638 Setting https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331412 Shinano, At the foot of the moutain Obatsuyama “The
abandoning of aged
]]> 2023-04-12 08:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331412 Theme https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331656 Mother’s love, it is something that no one can explain because it is made with deep devotion, sacrifice, understanding and pain, it is selfless and endless]]> 2023-04-12 08:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331656 Point of View https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331846 Third Person point of view, because the author is the one who
narrates the story and uses he/she
]]> 2023-04-12 08:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551331846 Plot https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551332390 Exposition 
The story begins with a brief description of the main characters, the farmer and his widowed mother. They are poor yet they own a piece of land where they normally get their food. Their house is filled with happiness and peace. However, their happiness and peace is threatened by the governor's decree. The governor of Shinano, a despotic leader who wanted to remove aging people by death sentence gave his anxiousness.

Rising Action
It happened when the son was about to leave his mother on the mountain together will all her provisions. The mother was saying goodbye to her son and telling him that in order to go back to their house safely, he should look for the traces, which she have left while they were walking towards the mountain. She said she should look for piles of twigs which she earnestly made while his son is carrying her on his back.

Climax
The poor farmer after hearing his mother have said he immediately changed his mind and decided not to leave her mother alone in the mountain. He again carried her on his back and went back to their house. He hid his mother on a walled closest beneath the kitchen and gives her everything she needed. Time had passed and they were able to live safely until the governor again made a decree that the people of Shinano should make a rope of ashes for him. The mother teaches her son how to do what the governor pleases. He gathered the people together and told them exactly what his mother taught him.

Falling Action 
The governor was very pleased with the rope of white head ashes upon the stones. He conversed with the poor farmer and asked him where he obtain his wisdom. He told the governor that it was his mother who taught him. The governor then realized that Shinano also needs wisdom of the elderly.

Resolution
On the particular hour, the governor had abolished the decree that eradicates aging people. He gave them freedom to live and restores their peace.]]> 2023-04-12 08:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/s1922084/u4tbcmsmay521r92/wish/2551332390