Emma’s Rug

Book title: Emma's Rug

Author: Allen Say

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Emma

b. Antagonist: Her mother

c. Foil character: Her teacher and classmates

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Internal narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Emma was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby.

b. Conflict: No

c. Rising action: She was good at painting and doing well on every contests.

d. Climax: Emma's mother cleaned her dirty rug and she was going to crazy.

e. Denouement: Emma threw all her prizes and works away.  Suddenly, she

didn't know what to draw.

f. End: Emma finally grew up.

Summary

        A little girl named Emma, who was good at painting but very shy.  She has a rug which was just like her friend.  She sometimes stare at it for a long time.  She love the rug very much!  One day her mother thought the rug was really dirty and threw it in washing machine.  When Emma found her rug became clean, she was angry and sad and cried out.  She threw all her paintings and awards and even her rug!  From then on, she grew up and never need any rug.

Reflection

    When I read the book, I thought of myself in my childhood.  Because I liked painting and had a rug, too!  Wherever I went, I always brought my rug with me.  I couldn’t believe if I hadn’t have the rug in my life until the naughty boy laughed at me.  I was angry and embarrass when he took my rug away in front of the class.  From that time, I had never brought it to any places .  Although the rug was still in my home, I hadn’t relied on it any more.  I thought I was as independent as Emma was.

 

Willy The Dreamer

 

 Book title: Willy The Dreamer

Author: Anthony Browne

 

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Willy

b. Antagonist: No

c. Foil character: No

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Willy was asleep and had  copious dreams.

b. Conflict: No

c. Rising action: No

d. Climax: Willy's dreams were more and more interesting and strange.

e. Denouement: Willy dreamed his past and future.

f. End: Willy woke up from his dreams.

Summary

    Willy had lots of interesting dreams.  He dreamed he was a film-star, a singer, a wrestler and so on.  He also dreamed he could fly but couldn't run.  Finally, he dreamed his past and future.

Reflection

    I dream almost everyday.  And I like to dream, they just like movies.  Sometimes it's funny or terrify and sometimes it's realistic or beautiful.  From the book, I recall the dream that I have ever had.  In that dream, I was a superstar, and I could sing and dance really well.  My fans cheered me as I closed to them.  When I got up, everything came back to reality.   However, I still enjoy it very much!

 

 

 

 

My Friend Rabbit

Title: My friend Rabbit

Author: Eric Rohmann

 

Analysis

Character:

Protagonist: A rabbit

Antagonist: A mouse

Other character: other animals

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: First-person narrator (the mouse)

Plot:

a. Setting: The mouse borrowed his plane to the rabbit and they played together.

b. Conflict: When the rabbit threw the toy plane, it got stuck in the tree.

c. Rising action: The rabbit came up with a idea, and he stacked up the animals to get the toy plane.

d. Climax: As the mouse got the toy plane, the animals toppled down.  They were angry at the rabbit.

e. Denouement: The mouse borrowed the toy plane to the rabbit and they were sill friends. 

f. End: The toy plane got stuck in the tree again. 

Conflict: Protagonist against the difficulty he encountered.

Summary

    The rabbit always made trouble.  Whenever he wanted to solve the problems he made, the others would come out.  However, the mouse still shared his toy plane with the rabbit, because  they are really friends.

Reflection

    This book made me remember Tina, who had been my best friend since I was in elementary school.  She was naive but negligent. We played together, read together, and even took a bath together; even so, she made trouble just like the rabbit in the storybook, too! I still remembered one time, when she put paints on my doll, she broke its leg carelessly! I was shocked and angry at that moment, and I didn't want to talk to her for a long time.  However, she kept saying sorry for me, and I knew she was not on purpose, so I forgave her.  Now we are still friends and keep in touch.

 

 

 

 

      

Piggybook

Book title: Piggybook

     Author: Anthony Browne

Analysis

Character:

a. Protagonist: Mrs. Piggot

b. Antagonist: Mr. Piggot and two sons

c. Foil character: No

Setting: Backdrop setting

Narrative point of view: Omniscient narrator

Plot:

a. Setting: Mrs. Piggot did the housework and went to work for her family everyday.

b. Conflict: Mr. Piggot and his sons were not only lazy but also having no gratitude to Mrs. Piggot.

c. Rising action: Mrs. Piggot left them.

d. Climax: They didn't know how to cook and how to clean the house and found they couldn't live without Mrs. Piggot.

e. Denouement: They hoped Mrs. Piggot to come back.

f. End: They began to help Mrs. Piggot to do the housework and they were all happy.

Summary

    There were a father, mother and two sons in Piggott family.  At the beginning, Mr. Piggot and his sons was lazy.  They never did housework except for Mrs. Piggot.  One day, Mrs. Piggot couldn’t stand for it, and left home for a period of time.  Mr. Piggot and his son didn’t know how to cook and do housework, so their house became dirty.  Finally, Mrs. Piggot came back and they did the housework “together”.

Reflection

    When I take Piggybook, I was attracted by the cover of the book.  The mother carried Father and two children on her back, it was strange and unusual!   I found the pictures in the book were meaningful, each of them reveal signs about what would happened latter.  I thought the writter of Piggybook was attentive.

    I liked this book because it told me women could do more things that men did as usual.  And womem played important role in families.  I also liked the pictures.  When I reading, I found Father and two sons in the story were turning to pigs slowly, for example: readers could see some of furniture was turning to pigs at first and then shadows became pigs, too.  At last, three of them changed into pigs!  It was really interesting!