Initiation: Author
Sylvia Plath
Initiation: Major Characters
-Millicent Arnold-Tracy (Friend)
Initiation: Setting
fall at Lansing High (early school year)
Initiation: Plot
Millicent is getting initiated into a sorority she ends up with the toughest 'big sister'. She gives her really hard tasks and puts Millicent in a tough place. Millicent begins to question whether or not she even wants to be in the sorority.
Initiation: Theme
be yourself and your true friends will accept you for who you really are; do what makes you happy, not others
Initiation: Conflict(s)
-Man vs. Man-Man vs. Self
There will Come Soft Rains: Author
Ray Bradbury
There will Come Soft Rains: Major Characters
The Maclellen House
There will Come Soft Rains: Setting
-Post-nuclear fallout - future (2026)
There will Come Soft Rains: Plot
the daily routine if a smart home without it's owners..
.there will be no tomorrow for humans
There will Come Soft Rains: Theme
Man destroys all technology and advances in war
There will Come Soft Rains: Conflict(s)
-man vs. himself-man vs. man
Searching for Summer: Author
Joan Aiken
Searching for Summer: Major Characters
-Tom (husband)-Lily (wife)-Mr.
Noakes
Searching for Summer: Setting
Molesworth, England
Searching for Summer: Plot
newlyweds searching for the sun, post-nuclear war
Searching for Summer: Theme
appreciate what you have because you don't know when it will be gone
Searching for Summer: Conflict(s)
-Man vs. man-Man vs. nature
One Thousand Dollars: Author
O. Henry
One Thousand Dollars: Major Characters
-Bobby Gillian-Miss Hayden
One Thousand Dollars: Setting
-New York City-early 1900's
One Thousand Dollars: Plot
Gillian's Uncle died and left $1,000 and if he spends it will he gets $50,000 more, but if he spends it badly he gets nothing and it goes to someone else...
Gillian doesn't know any of this except for that he has his rich uncles $1,000.
One Thousand Dollars: Theme
learn to appreciate what you have and be greatful for it
One Thousand Dollars: Conflict(s)
Man vs. self
Everyday Use: Author
Alice Walker
Everyday Use: Major Characters
-Dee (older sister)-Maggie (younger)-Mama
Everyday Use: Setting
the Deep South
Everyday Use: Plot
Dee comes home to visit and decides it's time to divide up the heirlooms. Dee wants them for all the wrong reasons and Maggie gets upset with her
Everyday Use: Theme
the meaning of heritage; knowing what you have and where you came from, whether you see it or not, it has meaning behind it and it is a part of you
Everyday Use: Conflict(s)
Man vs. man
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Author
Bessie Headd
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Charaters
-Brelle (black) (political prisoner)-Hanne (prison warder) (white)
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Setting
-South African prison camp-1980's-Apartheid
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Plot
New tough guard takes charge of span one, group of African political prisoners.
He punishes the one prisoner with glasses, Brelle, then Brelle catches him doing something and blackmails him to get what he wants
The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses: Conflict(s)
Man vs. man
