The Case of the Missing Will

The Case of the Missing Will
Agatha Christina

Theme: Discovery. Answers are sometimes hidden in plain sight.

Text Evidence:Then he lighted the fire and held the plain inside surface of the envelope to the flame. In a few minutes faint characters began to appear.

Summary: an orphan Violet Marsh was left her uncle's will. Now she's trying to outwit a dead man. Using her book smarts against his common sense she hires a detective to play the game for her. Resulting in her coming out on top.

Characters: Captain Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Miss Violet Marsh, Uncle Andrew, and Mr. and Mrs.Baker

Conflict: Character v.s. Character-trying to find where the uncle had hidden the will.

Figurative Language: Metaphor-comparing the uncle's wits to niece's 

Point of View: First Person.

Text Evidence: "I am not a great admirer of the so-called New Woman myself, and, despite her good looks, I was not particulary prepossessed in her favor."

Home.

Home

 Edgar A. Guest

Theme: "Home is Where the Heart is"

Text Evidence: "Until somehow yer soul is sort o' wrapped round everything,"

Summary: Home is not where or what you live in it is what you chose to make it where your heart truly lies.

Characters: Author.

Setting: Is where YOUR home is.

Conflict: Character v.s. Self- finding your home.

Figurative Language:(simile) comparing home and objects and money values.

Point of View: Third Person.

Text Evidence: "Ye've got t' weep t' make it home ye've got t' sit an' sigh.

Mama and the Doctor's Wife.

Mama and the Doctor's Wife

from Mama's Bank Account

Theme: Ambition and deception. Mama tricked Mrs.Beauchamp by bartering a man who could do Mrs.Beauchamp's house work for free.

Text Evidence: (Mama took a deep breath. "Just as soon he is able, Madame Beauchamp." "What?" Mama put her hand on Papa's shoulder. "This is the man.")

Summary: When papa falls ill and needs help from a specialist mama doesn't have the money. With some clever thinking mama gets the help mama needs.

Characters: Papa, Mama, Author, Dagmar, Dr. Johnson, Nels, men from ambulance, Christine, Miss Durant, Baby Kaaren, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Trina, Mr. Thirkelsen, Aunt Marta, Uncle Ole, Aunt Sigrid, Uncle Peter, Madame Beauchamp, Dr. Beauchamp, and the nun's at the hospital.

                                                                                                    Conflict: Mama doesn't have the money.

Point of View: First Person.

Text Evidence: "Dagmar and I began to cry, but for once Mama didn't pay any attention to us."

An Unfortunate Lily Maid.

An Unfortunate Lily Maid

L. M. Montgomery

Theme: Coming of age event each event shows how Anne learned a new lesson in each and is starting to grow up.

Text Evidence: "I've learned a new valuable lesson today. Ever since I came to Green Gables  I've been making mistakes, and each mistake has helped to cure me of some great shortcoming."

Summary:When Anne is playing with her friends she gets into some trouble. While pretending to play dead she gets herself into a life threatening situation when her boat starts to leak. Help arrives and teaches Anne a new lesson.

Characters: Anne Shirley, Ruby Gillis, Jane Andrews, Diana Berry, Gilbert Blythe, Marilla, and Mathew.

Setting: Diana's pond.

Conflict: Person v.s.fate. Anne being in the sinking dory.

Figurative Language: Hyperbole (exaggeration)

Point of View: Third person.

Text Evidence: Anne and Diana had spent most of their playtime that summer on and about the pond.

Another April.

Another April
Jesse Stuart

Theme: The theme of this story is that with patience a unlikely friend can be made.

Text Evidence: "That terrapin has spent the winters under that smoke house for fifteen years," Mom said. "Pap has been acquainted with him for eleven years. He's talkin' to that terrapin every spring."

Summary:  Every year Grandpa welcomes spring, and every year he welcomes his "old friend". Now Grandpa has his curious grandson wondering about this friend only to find out it's a terrapin.

Characters: Grandpa, Mama, the Grandson, and the terrapin.

Setting: An old farm around 1942.

Conflict: Grandpa's old age is starting to get to him.

Figurative Language: Personification (a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristic)

Point of View: First person.

Text Evidence: ""Who is he Grandpa?" I asked, but Grandpa just looked at my mouth working."

The Naming of Cats.

The Naming of Cats

T. S. Elliot

Theme: Discovery, discovering the cats personality and name.

Text Evidence: "But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,

Summary:  Character v.s. Nature. This poem is about the naming of cats and the type of names the cat could have.

Characters: The author

Conflict: Choosing the right name for a cat.

Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification.

Point of View: First Person

Text Evidence: "But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,"