Man from the South

1) Plot

Introduction: The introduction begins with the main character sitting in a deck chair with a beer, by the swimming pool in the evening.

Conflict (man vs man/man vs himself) (internal/external): The conflict is between man vs himself because the American is vs his own mind to see if he can beat the Jamaican which is also man vs man conflict since he bets to cut of the boys finger is he loses, but if the American boy does not lose he wins his car. 

Rising Action: The rising action is what causes the climax, when the American boy passes the lighter to the Jamaican man to light his cigar and when he says " Dat will not work in this wind" the boy responds "Sure it'll work. It always works." This leads to the bet which is the rising action. 

Climax: The climax is when the bet is happening, they countdown how many sparks the American boy can do without missing one and the tension is thick because if he loses, the Jamaican man will cut off his left pinky finger.

Falling action: The falling action in this story is in the middle of the countdown, while everyone's watching to see what happens a woman rushes in the doorway yelling " Carlos! Carlos!" which is the Jamaican mans name. She grabs his wrist and takes the chopper from him, interrupting the bet. 

Denouement: The final part of the story, the woman reveals the truth about the man and his betting, she says he has taken 47 fingers, lost 11 cars, he was threatened to be put away somewhere, so instead the brought him to Jamaica. The car was her car as well, since he has nothing left to bet with. 

2) Character

Protagonist (main character): The main character in this story is the man who is telling the story from his point of view, the narrator, 

Antagonist (force opposing the main character) : The antagonist is the American boy.

Static (remains the same): The static character is the main character, he stays the same throughout the whole story. 

Round (complex with many characteristics): The round character is the old man, he seems like an average man smoking a cigar but he starts acting strange when the American boy offers him a lighter and he begins to offer a bet that is different than your average betting.

Flat (single or simple characteristics): The flat character is the British girl, she just watched the bet and thinks it is stupid, she does not do anything else but stay in the background. 

Stock Character (stereotype): The stock character is the sailor in the story, who is focusing more on the British girl rather than anything else going on, 

Dynamic (changes throughout): The dynamic character is the old man since he goes ballistic over a bet, in the end his wife had to tell him to stop since it is a problem. 

3) Setting

Atmosphere: The atmosphere is very exciting then changes to scary. 

Time: 6:00 in the evening. 

Place: Jamaica.

4) Theme: The theme of this story is suspense. 

5) Point of view

First person: The person who is telling their point of view in the story is first person. 

Third person (omniscient, limited omniscient, objective/limited): None

Foreshadowing: "The man paused and examined his cigar, and I must say I didn't much like the way he was behaving. It seemed he was already trying to make something out of this, and to embarrass the boy, and at the same time I had the feeling he was relishing a private little secret all his own."