Term 4: Week 3 Plot Analysis

[Nurr]

Post the plot of the story - beginning, body and ending - in at least 10 lines.

[Tania]

Night Without End by Alistair Maclean Plot Analysis

A British Airways plane crashed on the Polar ice-cap, and three scientists from the weather station had to save the survivors before they died from starvation or exposure. So they decided to take them into their cabin. When suddenly the radio was smashed, Dr. Mason began to suspect everybody and decided to investigate who their guests were.
Soon he discovered that the plane’s pilot had been cold-bloodedly murdered because he found a bullet in his back, and the plane’s radio operator was killed that night. So he had to investigate the crimes and at the same time he had to travel with the guests through the ice towards the coast, without food and with a killer in the group.

[Rian]

The wizard Gandalf visits the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and invites him to join in an adventure to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their ancestral treasure, now in the possession of Smaug the dragon. Gandalf and Bilbo found a key nearby ,the key unlocks the trolls' secret cave, where the travelers find gold and weapons, Approaching the Misty Mountains, they take shelter from a storm in a cave that turns out to be the Great Goblin's cavern. The Goblins capture Bilbo and his companions and take their ponies and Gandalf kill the great goblin and safe the dwarves and Bilbo
finds a ring that he absentmindedly pockets.Bilbo puts on the ring and discovers its magical power. Pursuing the invisible Bilbo, Gollum inadvertently shows him the way out of the cave. Bilbo has the opportunity to kill Gollum, but decides his invisibility is an unfair advantage and, instead, leaps over his head through the mouth of the cave. depicts the encounter with Smaug the dragon, the object of the journey. The travelers can see the door to Smaug's lair in the side of the Lonely Mountain, but they can't open it until Bilbo suddenly understands the clues in Thorin's map. On Durin's Day, using the key from Thorin's grandfather, Bilbo enters the Lonely Mountain. He sees Smaug the dragon sitting on the treasure hoard and, despite great fear, engages him in conversation and emerges with a cup he has stolen from the hoard. At this point, Bilbo becomes, in effect, the leader of the group. He re-enters Smaug's lair and steals the Arkenstone, the precious gem of the hoard

[Wilson]

The book. Freddie's War is about a young man name Freddie who's a miner that went to Spain to make reports about the Spanish Civil War in 1936 under the official name as a reporter. In Spain, he met a brother and sister from the Marcos family who escaped from their hometown to get rid off the war. However ,when the war was getting worse, the Marcos's family brother "Alonso" join the republicans to fight the facist so the sister " Laura" and Freddie also volunteer as medical crews at the frontline. The last, the facist won and Alonso was captured but managed to escape to France. Laura and Freddie married and lived in London and re-join Laura's father.

[Jasmine]

The book I chose is The Joy Luck Club. After her mother Suyuan's death, thirty-six year old Jing-mei (June) Woo joins The Joy Luck Club. The club, which Suyuan founded in China during the war, consists of four women playing mah jong, eating good dinners, and gambling. Suyuan created the club as a way to improve the spirits of her friends during wartime. Her first husband died in the war and she was forced to abandon their twin baby daughters on the side of a road. Soon after, she met and married Canning Woo and moved to America. There, she restarted the club with three other women her age: An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. The four women and their daughters, who are about the same age, grow older together, and each mother/daughter relationship is full of sadness, anger and joy. June, for example, isn't sure she can replace a dead mother she hardly knew. Then she learns that her mother's other daughters have been found: they live in China, and the other women of the Joy Luck Club are sending June to meet them.

[Jasmine]

The book I chose is The Joy Luck Club. After her mother Suyuan's death, thirty-six year old Jing-mei (June) Woo joins The Joy Luck Club. The club, which Suyuan founded in China during the war, consists of four women playing mah jong, eating good dinners, and gambling. Suyuan created the club as a way to improve the spirits of her friends during wartime. Her first husband died in the war and she was forced to abandon their twin baby daughters on the side of a road. Soon after, she met and married Canning Woo and moved to America. There, she restarted the club with three other women her age: An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. The four women and their daughters, who are about the same age, grow older together, and each mother/daughter relationship is full of sadness, anger and joy. June, for example, isn't sure she can replace a dead mother she hardly knew. Then she learns that her mother's other daughters have been found: they live in China, and the other women of the Joy Luck Club are sending June to meet them.

[Jasmine]

The book I chose is The Joy Luck Club. After her mother Suyuan's death, thirty-six year old Jing-mei (June) Woo joins The Joy Luck Club. The club, which Suyuan founded in China during the war, consists of four women playing mah jong, eating good dinners, and gambling. Suyuan created the club as a way to improve the spirits of her friends during wartime. Her first husband died in the war and she was forced to abandon their twin baby daughters on the side of a road. Soon after, she met and married Canning Woo and moved to America. There, she restarted the club with three other women her age: An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. The four women and their daughters, who are about the same age, grow older together, and each mother/daughter relationship is full of sadness, anger and joy. June, for example, isn't sure she can replace a dead mother she hardly knew. Then she learns that her mother's other daughters have been found: they live in China, and the other women of the Joy Luck Club are sending June to meet them.

[Jasmine]

The book I chose is The Joy Luck Club. After her mother Suyuan's death, thirty-six year old Jing-mei (June) Woo joins The Joy Luck Club. The club, which Suyuan founded in China during the war, consists of four women playing mah jong, eating good dinners, and gambling. Suyuan created the club as a way to improve the spirits of her friends during wartime. Her first husband died in the war and she was forced to abandon their twin baby daughters on the side of a road. Soon after, she met and married Canning Woo and moved to America. There, she restarted the club with three other women her age: An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. The four women and their daughters, who are about the same age, grow older together, and each mother/daughter relationship is full of sadness, anger and joy. June, for example, isn't sure she can replace a dead mother she hardly knew. Then she learns that her mother's other daughters have been found: they live in China, and the other women of the Joy Luck Club are sending June to meet them.

[Shannon]

The book is called "American Crime Stories"-Lazy Susan.
There is this woman called Susan Carpenter. One day she got robbed and so, she decided to learn how to shoot. She was so mad at the robber for taking her "hard-earned" $50. She actually is very lazy and didn't do much work except her bosses and customers like her. In the first week of learning how to self-defence, she was thought how to scream and run fast. The next week, she learned how to use keys and nail scissors as weapon and the week after identifying mugger and mugging victims. After these 3 weeks of training, she has gotten confident and went to watch the movies by herself. That day, she saw a man looking suspicious but now, instead of being robbed, she robbed that men. Now, lazy Susan has quitted her job and found an easier way to find money.

[Tiffany]

I have just read the book entitled 'Dolphin Music'. The main character is Saul. He is a member of BEACON, an anti-terrorist group. His hobby is to hear music written by dolphins. One day, he visited an elderly woman called Ruth Hunter, and she reveals that she is a member of terrorist group and tortured dolphins in a room called 'Music Room'. The dolphins creates beautiful music before they were suffered to die. After he knew that, he plan to rescue all the dolphins in the Music Rooms with his friend, Sue. Although they took a hard time to let the dolphins escape from the Music Room, but they succesfully did it.

[Jade]

Book : Pride and Prejudice

Charles Bingley, a rich single man, moves to the Netherfield estate, the neighborhood residents are thrilled, especially Mrs. Bennet, who hopes to marry one of her five daughters to him. When the Bennet daughters meet him at a local ball, they are impressed by his outgoing personality and friendly disposition. They are less impressed, however, by Bingley's friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, a landowning aristocrat who is too proud to speak to any of the locals and whom Elizabeth Bennet overhears refusing to dance with her.
As Darcy grows more interested in Elizabeth, Elizabeth continues to despise him and is instead attracted to George Wickham, a handsome and personable militia officer. Wickham tells Elizabeth that his father worked for Darcy's father and that he and Darcy grew up together. Stating that he was favored by Darcy's father, Wickham claims that Darcy disobeyed his father's bequest of a clergyman's revenue to Wickham out of selfish resentment. Wickham's tale makes Darcy appear not only proud but cruel, and Elizabeth accepts Wickham's account without question, disliking Darcy even more because of it.
Bingley returns to Netherfield and soon asks Jane to marry him. Jane, of course, accepts, and Mrs. Bennet's exultation is only lessened by her irritation at Darcy's occasional presence. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's happiness for her sister is interrupted by a visit from Lady Catherine De Bourgh, who has heard a rumor that Darcy and Elizabeth are engaged, which they are not. She lectures Elizabeth on the imprudence of such a match, and then demands that Elizabeth promise not to accept any proposal from Darcy. Elizabeth refuses, causing Lady Catherine to tell Darcy about Elizabeth's impertinence and to scold him about the folly of an engagement between them. Lady Catherine's description of Elizabeth's response to her demands gives Darcy hope that Elizabeth has had a change of heart. He proposes again and Elizabeth happily accepts.

[Samantha]

The book that i read last week was Windows of the Mind. Each of these highly entertaining stories centres around one of the five senses. They meet a well-known broadcaster whose blindnessis her power, a war hero who hates noise and wants silence, a wine-taster who has an acvident, a university lecturer whonlearns Tai Chi, and a magazine journalist who smells like scandal and will do anything for a good story.