SHORT STORY ANALYSIS (15 points)

Name: Jirapol Worrakitkanwasin (Kim) Section: 1004

Short Story Title: Poison by Roald Dahl

Directions: Read the short story given to you. Complete the entire table for ELEMENTS; however, for
the PLOT LINE, your teacher will assign ONE part of the plot for you to analyze. In your plot line
analysis, ensure to explain in details what is asked for. Please edit your work before submission.
Upload your analysis in your individual GDrive folder.

ELEMENTS
(​Identify​ what is asked for in each number)

1. Main characters
- Harry Pope (Protagonist, he didn’t do something bad.)
- Timber Woods (Protagonist, he tried to help Harry Pope and called the doctor.)
- Dr.Ganderbai (Protagonist, because he came and helped Harry.)
- The krait (Antagonist, in this story I think only the krait could be the antagonist.)
2. Setting
- Where : Harry Pope’s house
- When : Around midnight
3. Plot Summary
- There was a man sleeping in bed then a krait crawled to his bed and slept on a man’s
stomach.
4. Type of Conflict
- Man Vs Nature , the conflict was between Harry Pope and the krait. ​(was there really a
snake?)
5. Theme / Moral (lesson)
- You shouldn’t be too panic when you fac​ed​ ​the​ problem, tried to be patient and solved
the problem (​Like in this story, if Harry was so panic that the krait woke up and bit him
then he wouldn’t be safe.)
6. POINT OF VIEW
- 3rd POV - Limited
 PLOT LINE
(​BRIEFLY explain ​what is asked for in each number)

1. EXPOSITION
A. How do the characters’ physical, emotional, and mental characteristics affect the other parts of
the story?
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B.​ Do you think that setting is important in other parts of the story? Why or Why not?
- Yes, I think it is very important because we will know how the krait slept on Harry’s
stomach and we will know that why Timber needed to call the doctor
C. Identify ONE figure of speech or idiom used by the writer in this part of the plot, and explain its
meaning.
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- answers in plot line are incomplete

- reread the story
- 5/10
Revision

ELEMENTS
(​Identify​ what is asked for in each number)

1 Main characters
- Harry Pope (Antagonist, at first he thought that there was a krait on his stomach but
in the end he talked badly to the doctor)
- Timber Woods (Protagonist, he tried to help Harry Pope and called the doctor.)
- Dr.Ganderbai (Protagonist, because he came and helped Harry.)

2 Setting
- Where : Harry Pope’s house
- When : Around midnight

3 Plot Summary
- There was a man who thought that a krait was lying on his stomach so his friend called a
doctor to help him but finally there was nothing on his stomach.
4 Type of Conflict
- Man Vs Man, the conflict was between Harry and Dr.Ganderbai (in the end)

5 Theme / Moral (lesson)

- We shouldn’t talk badly to anyone even when we are angry​, w​e should talk to each other
calm​ly, so​metimes our words might affect the others’ feelings.
6 ​POINT OF VIEW
- 3rd POV - Limited

PLOT LINE
(​BRIEFLY explain ​what is asked for in each number)

1. EXPOSITION
A. How do the characters’ physical, emotional, and mental characteristics affect the other parts of
the story?
- Timber’s mental characteristics could lead the story into a good way because of his
kindness and caring of Harry.
- Dr.Ganderbai’s mental characteristics also made the story to be good because he tried to
find ways to help Harry.
- The story seemed to be bad in the end because of Harry’s emotio​n, h​e thought that
Dr.Ganderbai told him a liar so he shouted badly to the doctor “Why, you dirty little
Hindu sewer rat!” and that made the doctor felt bad and went home.
B​. Do you think that setting is important in other parts of the story? Why or Why not?
- Yes, it let the readers know where the characters were (like when Timber came back
home and saw that Harry was in bed and asked for some help).
C. Identify ONE figure of speech or idiom used by the writer in this part of the plot, and explain its
meaning.
- Imagery, the writer used this figure of speech for the readers to imagine the picture of
man who wore a pajamas with blue, brown and white stripes and slept in his bed.
- check answers: POV and B (understand the question well)
- check your punctuation: You are missing your FULL STOP.
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