https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw elements of short story writing en-us 2019-02-26 00:40:25 UTC 2025-11-17 10:02:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335157033       The message or the lesson that authors use to teach readers with their stories.

      In the short story "Borders", the mother stood her ground when the officer asked her what is her citizen ship as an aboriginal people.
This spirit makes up the theme of the story which is "never forget who you really are no matter where you are"]]> 2019-02-26 00:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335157033 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335169016       To compare one thing to another with like, as, so, and resemble.

In the story "Borders", the author used word like to create a simile. "You see that bunch of stars over there that look like a fish?" It compared the stars to a fish.]]> 2019-02-26 01:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335169016 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335171563         To compare two things with out any special connection words.

In the story "Never Stop on the Motorway", the pedestrians were compared to worker ants.]]> 2019-02-26 01:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335171563 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335172127       Giving an life less object human traits and make them look like people.

In the story "Borders", the mother said "Coyote went fishing, one day." This gives coyote the human feature of being able to go fishing.]]> 2019-02-26 01:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335172127 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335173288       Use language to form a picture  or vision in the readers head.

In the story "Never Stop on the Motorway", imagery had been used to from a picture of the street. "When she drove onto the street, the stream of twilight traffic was just about keeping pace with the pinstriped pedestrians who, like worker ants, were hurrying toward the nearest hole in the ground"]]> 2019-02-26 01:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335173288 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335178326       The reason and the power which is behind the action of a character.

In the short story "To Build a Fire", the desire of surviving is the motivation behind the man. He had no choice other then death if he don't get back to the camp.]]> 2019-02-26 02:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335178326 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335202816       The event and the out come of what the character did or the story tells end up in a totally opposite way of what it should have been.

In the story "The Necklace", the protagonist Mrs. Loisel lost a necklace which her friend Mrs. Forestier borrowed her. Mrs. Loisel and her husband brought a new one to replace the original and paid it off over ten years. After that she met Mrs. Forestier on the street, and then she learned the necklace Mrs. Forestier lended her was a fake, and it only worth 500 francs.]]> 2019-02-26 03:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335202816 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335205986       The time, place, weather, and the reason of what things are like in the beginning of the story, it divide into emotional and physical settings.

      In the short story "To Build a Fire", the author used the winter of northwest mountain region of Canada as the physical setting of the story.

      In the short story "To Build a Fire", the author used the desperate feeling of the man to create a emotional setting to impact the reader's mood.]]> 2019-02-26 04:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335205986 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335206494       The event in the story that make things expand into a bigger picture.

In the novel "Fatty Legs", the event which effected Olemaun's life and changed the story drasticly was when her parents allow her to go to school.]]> 2019-02-26 04:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335206494 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335208897 *First Person Point of View
      To tell the story from the angle of "I".
*Second Person Point of View
      To tell the story from the angle of "You".
*Third Person Point of View
      To tell the story from the angle of "he, she, it, them"

      In the story "Fatty Legs", the author used first person point of view, so the reader know what the protagonist is thinking and how he/she feels.
      
In the story "To Build a Fire", the author used third person point of view to tell the story from a spectator's angle, the readers will not know how the charactor feel or what they are thinking.]]> 2019-02-26 04:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335208897 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335209521       A polite way of mentioning a person.

      In the noval "Fatty Legs", the Raven nun is very tart and mean，and the word raven is a good way of portraying the personality of the nun.]]> 2019-02-26 04:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335209521 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335210509       Use of language to create a feeling that influence the character and the storyline.

      In the story "To Build a Fire", the author created the atmosphere of desperation, and the pace slows down when the climax approches and this gives the reader a mood of curiosity of what is the fate of this man going to be.]]> 2019-02-26 04:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335210509 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335210872 *Protagonist
      The main character in a story who developed the most.
*Antagonist
      The character who work against the protagonist.
*Flat
      The character who doesn't develope much and stays the same through out the story.
*Round
      The character who is mostly same as real life people and have complex personality.
*Dynamic
      The character who change drasticly because of plot event.
* Static
      The character who doesn't change and have the same personality through out the story.

      In the story "Fatty Legs", Olemaun is the protagonist, she developed the most during the story.
      In the story "Borders", the officers are good example of antigonist. They helped the protagonist develope through out the story.
      In the short story "Never Stop On the Motorway", the youth in the black van is a flat character, he tried to help Diana through out the story, which never changed.
      In the story "To Build a Fire", the man was a round character because he fight for his survival and he act like a real life character.
      In the story "Necklace", Mrs.Loisel changed when she lose the necklace from her friend. She started to work hard and earned enough money to pay for the necklace.
      In the story "Fatty Legs",
the nun named sister Macquillan was very friendly and kind to everyone. This act of her never changed from the beginning to the end of the story.]]> 2019-02-26 04:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335210872 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335212235       To represent an object or a person with something else that has a similer yet deeper mean of.

In the story "To Build a Fire", the fire which the man build is a symbol of hope in the frozen winter.]]> 2019-02-26 04:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335212235 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335212508       The past of the character which they remeber during the middle of the story, that pulls them back in time and present it to the readers. 

In the story "Fatty Legs", Olemaun thought about her past childhood and the time where she get to play with her cousins freely.]]> 2019-02-26 04:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335212508 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335213663       To give hint or clue of what is going to happen next in the story.

In the story "To Build a Fire", the man is making a fire yet the snow on the branch on top of him is melting, yet he didn't realize. this gives the hint of the snow will fall and he cannot successfully build a fire.]]> 2019-02-26 04:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335213663 jiaomengqun https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335213814       To leave the reader with a secret and mysterious solution or ending that makes them think with their imagination of what is going to happen.

      In the story "Never Stop on the Motorway", the protagonist Diana got to her friend's house and stopped the youth whom had been following her, yet the real person who was life threatening was in the back of the car, leaving the readers to think about what would have happened if she didn't got warned by the youth]]> 2019-02-26 04:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jiaomengqun/uul6zg8csvtw/wish/335213814