"Top Man"
The name of the two men who lead the attempt to climb K3.
Osborn and Nace
The kind of animal that Algernon is.
Mouse
The continent on which you would find a veld.
Africa
The name of the narrator's second cousin.
Cathy
The occupation of Orla's father.
Firefighter
Term for two characters who highlight each other's qualities.
Character Foil
The story's inciting incident
Charlie's surgery
The name of the dying animal and the name of the animal that is eating it.
Buck, ants
An important piece of historical context.
Food Stamps
The name of the musical artist whose concert Orla almost attends.
Reeba Shah
The story's antagonist
K3
The name of Charlie's factory "friends".
Joe Carp and Frank Reilly
Epiphany #1
Control, Power
What the hammer is.
Symbol of quiet power.
The number of the bus Orla spends much of her time riding.
27
The Freytag's Pyramid term that comes directly after the falling action.
The resolution
Term for a story made up of letters.
Epistolary narrative.
What the boy has to take responsibility for by the end of the story.
Shooting the buck
The kind of cakes Granny was making.
Rum cakes.
What the constellation drawing symbolizes for Orla.
An outlet, an escape
The name of the narrator
Frank
The city that Charlie says he will leave at the end of the story.
New York
The number of miles the boy runs at 4:30 in the morning.
4
The common fable that Cathy uses to prove a point about perspective.
Goldilocks
The name of the record store. Pronounced correctly!
Trafalgar Records