Chapter 1

p. 6

1. The North Wind has a mean, forceful, and furious personality. The Sun has a more gentle personality, but it is majestic and powerful at the same time.
2. He tried to use his own power to force the cloak off of the man; however, his method backfired, and the man clinched his cloak tighter because the North Wind was making him cold.
3. The Sun was successful because he created an atmosphere that made the man want to take his cloak off. The Sun did not force the cloak off of the man. The man took the cloak off himself.
4. The human is in this story to show that humans have a choice, power, and a will.
5. The Sun created a situation that persuaded to human to take off his cloak, and that worked. The North Wind, however, tried to force the cloak off of the human using his own power, but this actually made the human hold onto his cloak tighter.

p. 8

1. The exposition of this story is the part where it talks about Chuang Tzu fishing and approached by two officials. He uses one sentence to set up the dramatic situation.
2. He mentions the sacred tortoise because he wants to show the officials, in a simple story and words, why he does not want to be in the administration. He does not answer directly because he wanted to teach a lesson that would get across easier using a simple story. I think making the officials answer the question just shows the officials how blatently obvious it is that he would not want to be on the administration.
3. I think this story tells us that Chuang Tzu has a carefree personality, but I think it also shows us that he is a wise person too.

p. 19

1. I think the details at the checkout counter are very true to real life. The part at the beginning where he describes the woman who watches him ringing up the groceries and makes sure he doesn't ring one up twice is a very good description of how certain people are in real life. This close attention to detail makes the story more real and easy to relate to.
2. I think the author draws out the character of Sammy quite well. Sammy is kind for the most part, a good worker, a typical boy who wants to be noticed by the girls, and he has gumption. I think we get to see a lot more characteristics of Sammy, both good and bad, than we see in the doctor from "Godfather Death." We only get to see a narrow aspect of the doctor. We see that he is a doctor who wants to do what he knows he can do, and that is to save lives, and no threat will stop him from doing just that.
3. I would say the exposition is the whole part where it just talks about the girls coming in and shopping around. Queenie must be described with a lot of detail because she is the leader, so there must be a lot of focus on her so show the reader that she is important.
4. I think that at first Sammy was a little bit judgemental with the girls, but as he began to watch them more, he started to judge them less harshly.
5. The conflict becomes apparent when Lengel tells the girls that they weren't at the beach. The crisis is when the girls are arguing with Lengel, and then the climax is when Sammy quits his job.
6. Sammy quits his job so that the girls would notice that he does not agree with Lengel's policy. Then maybe the girls would like him. I also think he quit his job because he did not like it. It was boring, and being the hero gave him a reason or excuse to quit.
7. I think the part where he laughed at his boss telling the girls that the store wasn't a beach was a forshadow that he was going to show some sympathy towards the girls.
8. I think in the conclusion Sammy realized that now he was unemployed, his parents were probably going to be mad at him, and he did not even get a look of gratitude from the girls. He probably wonders if quitting was actually the best choice.
9. I think he is saying that supermarkets are kind of low class and people think working at a supermarket is the job that people do if they cannot find any other job to do.