"Cherry Coke & Mint Pulao” (Plot & Details)
He becomes suspicious because he remembers seeing a shipment come in the day before.
What detail makes Shivam doubt his father’s excuse about needing Cherry Coke?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
It symbolizes the suffering and exploitation society accepts to maintain its happiness.
What does the child in the basement symbolize in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”?
The Festival of Summer: processions, bells, parades, horses, joy.
What details describe Omelas at the beginning of the story?
Reverse chronological order.
What plot structure does “Currents” use?
She avoids eye contact and quietly says she doesn’t know.
How does Mom first respond when Shivam asks about Dad going back to the store?
The author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
It symbolizes the lingering trauma and the weight of what the witnesses cannot forget.
What does the drowned boy’s hand slipping off the stretcher symbolize in “Currents”?
They directly addresses the reader and imagines the city into existence.
Who is the narrator?
“Before that…”
What repeated phrase structures the story and affects pacing?
He notices the bags under her eyes and counts the creases in her skin.
What detail shows Shivam is seeing his mother in a new way?
Giving human traits to something non-human.
What is personification?
It symbolizes the pain and permanence of change, love, and growing up.
What does the eraser tattoo symbolize in “Eraser Tattoo”?
The suffering that society hides or accepts to maintain comfort.
What does the child in the basement represent?
It emphasizes tragedy by revealing the ending first, then showing the causes.
How does the reverse order influence emotional impact?
It symbolizes the pull of American culture and Dad’s public image.
What does the Cherry Coke most likely symbolize?
The struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The ants symbolize power, cruelty, and the girl’s attempt to control a world she does not understand.
What do the ants symbolize in "Random Sample"?
Refusal to accept happiness built on someone else’s suffering.
Why do some people walk away from Omelas?
Gary thinks he sees seaweed, but it’s the boy’s hair resurfacing.
What detail shows the moment Gary witnesses the drowning?
He returns home, embraces his mother, and tells her, “I know. I know.”
What moment reveals Shivam’s changed understanding of his family?
A universal idea or message about life that the story explores.
What is theme?
Food can represent comfort, memory, or cultural identity.
How can food act as a symbol in literature?
We do not know, but they seem to.
Where do the people who walk away go to?
The human chain that forms to search for the boy’s body.
What event marks the community’s attempt to save the Filipino boy?