While working in a grocery store a man sees three girls in bathing suits. He watches and studies these girls the entire time they are in the store. When the girls are leaving his manager yells at the girls for the way they are dressed and this causes the man to quit.
What is the Plot?
100
First Person Point of View
What is Point of View?
100
Grocery store near the beach.
What is the setting?
100
Grocery store worker, three girls in swim suits, grocery manager.
What is the character(s)?
100
It is used to give the reader a feel for the setting and mood
what is imagery?
200
"Queenie" represented a leader, while the other girls acted as followers.
What is symbol?
200
John Updike tells the story from the first-person point of view.
What is narration?
200
John Updike uses this to create an image of the three girls walking around in the grocery store.
What is description?
200
The story is written in a "dreamy" ______.
What is Tone?
200
John Updike uses this to differentiate the one girl from the other two.
What is classification?
300
Sammy seems stuck in a dreamy state for the duration of the story, until he makes a snap decision at the end to quit.
What is stream of consciousness?
300
John Updike writes to make a metaphorical description that relates to reality. Can you give an example?
What is figuratively?
300
The store manager talks to the girls about how their attire is inappropriate. This pushes Sammy to quit, since he did not like how the manager embarrassed the girls.
What is Cause and effect?
300
Sammy left his job because of how the girls were treated and the girls did not notice what he had done. This is an example of ________.
What is irony?
300
The author writes in a descriptive ______.
What is style?
400
The story was written by a character named Sammy. This is an example of ______________________.
What is first person point of view?
500
Updike uses a this to explain one of the girls walking around the store "she was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it." he compared her figure to a "can" and "crescents".
What is metaphor?
500
Updike uses this to compare the store to a pinball machine because of its set up. " the whole store was like a pinball machine and I didn't know which tunnel they'd come out of. "
What is simile?
500
A narration with a narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character. Can you give examples?