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    This document summarizes and analyzes a short story titled "A Bus Ride". It identifies the main characters, setting, plot, type of conflict, theme, and point of view of the story. For the plot line analysis, the student was assigned to analyze part 2, the rising action. They explain that the series of events in this section are not easy to follow because the story is told through narration and the third-person perspective of the main character. They also identify the idiom "Life is so difficult" used by the writer and explain its meaning. Overall, the summary analyzes the key elements of the short story at a high level.

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    This document summarizes and analyzes a short story titled "A Bus Ride". It identifies the main characters, setting, plot, type of conflict, theme, and point of view of the story. For the plot line analysis, the student was assigned to analyze part 2, the rising action. They explain that the series of events in this section are not easy to follow because the story is told through narration and the third-person perspective of the main character. They also identify the idiom "Life is so difficult" used by the writer and explain its meaning. Overall, the summary analyzes the key elements of the short story at a high level.

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    This document summarizes and analyzes a short story titled "A Bus Ride". It identifies the main characters, setting, plot, type of conflict, theme, and point of view of the story. For the plot line analysis, the student was assigned to analyze part 2, the rising action. They explain that the series of events in this section are not easy to follow because the story is told through narration and the third-person perspective of the main character. They also identify the idiom "Life is so difficult" used by the writer and explain its meaning. Overall, the summary analyzes the key elements of the short story at a high level.

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    SHORT STORY ANALYSIS (15 points)

    Name: Phasin Ngamthanaphaisarn (Team) Section: 1004

    Short Story Title: A Bus Ride

    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

    There are a lot of charact​ers​ in this story but the main character is Lyda. In my opinion, She ​ was
    both protagonist and antagonist characteristic because the story happened by Lyda’s perspective
    so it would have good and bad thinking. For example, she thin​ks​ ​that the man who ​sacrific​es​ the
    seat for her is very good man. However, her perspective with the sick man was bad. ​This main
    character also the type of static because of her mind set and she does not change anything​ ​in the
    last of the story.

    2. Setting

    The situation of the story happened around the afternoon because Lyda wanted to go back home.
    The background was set in poor country where had several problem such as traffic jam and poor
    pollution. The writer se​ts​ the story in Manilla, Philippines early 1940s during the world war.

    3. Plot Summary

    Lyda ​took​ the bus to go back home. Along the way, she feel upset and found many situation that
    were good and bad and also poor and rich. she think that life is difficult, everyone is not the same.

    4. Type of Conflict

    The type of conflict in this story is Man vs Herself because Lyda reacted to the different situation
    by different feeling. Sometim​es,​ she stric​tly foll​owed her mind set. The story moved by her
    perspective.

    5. Theme / Moral (lesson)

    The writer want to represent the gene​ral​ human nature (selfish). She want to show the reader
    about people perspective and problem in their life.

    6. POINT OF VIEW
    It’s the 3rd point of view because the story was told by only Lyda perspective. It also ​omniscient
    because it show the story by narration technique. The reader was trapped in the main
    character’s mind. We only know the other character by Lyda thought.

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

    2. RISING ACTION
    A. Do you find the series of events easy to follow? Why or Why not?

    No, the series in this story​ do​ not ​ easy to follow because the writer wrote the story in to
    narration and use the 3rd person to explain. Moreover, the narrator u​sed​ the main character ​to
    tell ​the story by comparing between bus rider and human life that hard to understand. ​Also the
    word is​ hard to understand

    In my opinion, there’s no interesting event in this part because everything that happened in the
    story are so simple. In this part, Lyda just think about people around her in the bus and nothing
    happened.

    C. Identify ONE figure of speech or idiom used by the writer in this part of the plot, and explain its
    meaning.

    Idiom that I found in the story is “Life is so difficult”.​ It​ ​mea​n​ the real problem of life that can
    happens​ ​in everyon​e’s li​fe. The writer u​sed​ ​illness man who cough to Lyda to represent the hard
    event that make Lyda feel irritate. In contrast, she can’t show her bad mood because she k​new
    the true reason about that man(he will have a baby so he can not stop to work even if he sick).

    edit errors: SVA / missing LV

    review answers in B and C

    7/10

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