Another April
Jesse Stuart
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.
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."
Point of View: First person.
Text Evidence: ""Who is he Grandpa?" I asked, but Grandpa just looked at my mouth working."
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