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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The Possibility of Evil Point of View: 3rd person

Protagonist: Adela Strangeworth What type of character is the Protagonist? round, and dynamic Antagonist: Adela Strangeworth

Describe the setting In a town, on main street, during the summer.

Type of Conflict: Man vs Man

Describe the main conflict:

Strangeworth seems like a nice lady to the people of the town, but because of her amazing family history, and being self centered, this makes her kind of hate the people in her town. She writes evil letters to people in the town about how stupid they are, and what they do wrong.

Describe the Climax of the Story: When Linda, and the Harris boy picked up the evil mail that Adela Strangeworth dropped, and found out that she was causing all the problems when they delivered the mail for Adela to Don Crane.

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? The protagonist only changes at the end of the story when she receives her mail back, and found out that her roses were destroyed. She had to change because people found out about her secret that she was the one sending the evil mails that she used to try to help people. Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The relationship between the title "The Possibility of Evil", and "Self Centered" is that being self centered could make you become a bad guy. For example, in the story, Strangeworth was over proud of herself because of her family history, and this made her think that the town belongs to her and it is her job to keep the town peaceful.

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helped illustrate the theme of "self centered" because if Strangeworth was not self centered, she would not have sent all those evil mails, trying to help people but end up harming them.

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The climax of her secret getting exposed helped illustrate the theme of "self centered" because Strangeworth would not have known that she has done wrong with her letters without getting one back, and getting her secret exposed.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: Old Lady Stangeworth's getting deaf, like a falling leaf.

Metaphor: From halfway down the block __Miss Strangeworth could catch the heavy scent of roses__, and she moved more quickly

Personification: Instead she went into the light, __lovely sitting room, which still glowed__ from the hands of her mother, and her grandmother, who had covered the chairs with bright chintz and hung the curtains.

Symbol: The roses represented the good she had left.

Foreshadowing (give both elements): When the Harris boy found the letter and delivered it, we would think that Tom Crane would know that Strangeworth was the one that sent him the evil letter because the Harris boy and Linda saw her drop it.

Irony: The irony in this story is that Strangeworth thinks that she is helping people by sending them mail but she is the one causing all the problems.

Imagery: Miss strangeworth stopped at her own front gate, as she always did, and looked with deep pelasure at her house, with the red and pink and white roses massed along the narrow lawn, and the rambler going up along the porch

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. Humanities is related to being Self Centered because everyone that is human is always self centered sometimes. This includes not listening to others because you don't think they are worthy, or talk a lot about yourself.