Chapter 1

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1. The North Wind has a more demanding personality. He is a short term thinker, and when he wants something done, he wants it done immediately. As the story shows, he tries to use force to get the traveler to takeoff his cloak. He also may be narrow minded because the only way he thinks to prove he is stronger is by using force. On the other hand, the sun looks outside of the box. His personality is more persistent and patient. He slowly puts his plan into action, and it ends up working in the end
2. Although the idea of trying to blow the cloak away from the man was smart, it ended up backfiring. The stronger the North Wind blew, the colder the traveler got, and the more he wanted to keep his cloak wrapped around him.
3. The sun was effective because he didn't use force, but instead made the traveler want to remove his cloak. The sun made the temperature very warm, and the traveler was too hot with the cloak on so he decided to remove it. The sun used persuasion instead of force.
4. The human is the guinea pig in the competition between the North Wind and the Sun. He is the controlled variable so that they both have a fair chance of winning the challenge. The human also makes it easier for readers to relate to the story. The reader can easily put themselves in the travelers shoes to see what they would have done in the situation.
5. The moral of this story was "Persuasion is better than force". In this fable, the whole paragraph leads to this conclusion. The North Wind tries to use force to win the challenge and he fails. The sun uses persuasion and convinces the traveler to want to take off the cloak and this tactic allows him to win.

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1. Exposition is the opening part that introduces characters and sets the scene for the story. This story is very short so doesn't have much exposition except for the first couple sentences. Chuang Tzu uses two sentences to set up the dramatic situation.
2.The protagonist changes the subject to provide a reason why he does not want to be a part of the government. He doesn't answer the question directly and immediately because he wants to provide an "out of the box" reason for his answer. Yes, it serves a purpose that he makes the officials answer a question because after providing this obvious answer, it makes them really look at Tzu's point when he turns the question around.
3. Chuang Tzu proves to be very wise. His personality seems as though he is very upfront and confrontational. He is not afraid to tell the officials his true opinion.

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1. The details that stand out to me as being particulary true to life were most of the ones that had to do with the three girls. Specifically describing the appearances of the girls and referring to the one as "the queen". This always can seen when a group of people are hanging out together, there is always an evident leader. I found it interesting how he took so much time describing every little detail of these girls. It shows the reader how close Sammy was paying attention to them in the book. The attention to close detail also helps expose the character of Sammy and the reader feels like they know him and are in the store with him when the events of the story take place.
2.Updike does a great job in describing the character of Sammy. He writes as though you know everything going on in Sammy's head. Sammy seems to have low self esteem, which is why he quit his job so that the pretty girls would notice him. He also is very critical, as he points out every little flaw on each of the girls. On the posivtive side, Sammy is somewhat heroic because he stands up for something that he believes is unjust. Sammy is less of a hero for wanting the girls to notice because it proves that he was doing it for attention and not just to make things right. Sammy is more thoroughly portrayed than the doctor in the "Godfather Death" because we are aware of this thought process throughout the whole incident. We know what reasons he is doing it for and witness the decision.
3. The exposition is the very first paragraph because it introduces the characters, sets the scene of the event, and gives the reader some insight as to what the story will be about. The detail of Queenie is important to the story because it shows the pedastol that Sammy puts her and the girls on, which makes it easier to understand why he makes such a rash decision at the end of the book.
4.Yes, as the story develops you can see him take more of an interest in the girls. He watches their every move, and by the end of the story you feel like he knows them. At the beginning he is just very critical of their appearances, but doesn't seem as interested in them as he turns out to be.
5. The dramatic conflict occurs when Sammy in finally in contact with the girls and the manager causes a seen. When the manager gets mad at the girls, the crisis in the story begins. The climax of the story is when Sammy quits his job.
6.Sammy quits his job to show the girls that he is standing up for them. He does this in the spur of the moment. Granted he might be doing it to prove a point to the manager, but the main reason was to create an image for himself that would impress the girls.
7. The fact that Sammy was so intrigued by the girls made me believe that he might end up doing something rash. The forshadowing to Sammy feeling sympathy for the girls is when he says "Now here comes the sad part of the story". It shows that he feels bad that the girls are singled out by the manager when it doesn't seem necessary. Also, as Sammy observes the girls ask for help finding diet peaches and are being checked out by a man Sammy says, "Poor girls, I began to feel sorry for them, they couldn't help it". This was forshadowing the sympathy that Sammy felt towards the girls.
8. The conclusion of the story proves that sometimes acts of heroism go unoticed, and that by doing something to prove a point you will not always be rewarded. When Sammy says "I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter", he means that he now realizes that sometimes you have to play the game, even if you don't agree with the rules. He felt sorry for the girls so he quit his job which will be a huge problem. His personality is going to have to become more passive and he is going to have to learn to sit aside and watch as things happen that he doesn't agree with.
9. Updike makes the comment that even in supermarket society there are rules that need to be followed and a hiearchy that exists. The supermaket society is paralleled with the real world.