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Assignment: Analyze the story and plot in Tuesdays with Morrie using the reader-response framework.
a) What do you learn in the text's introduction (exposition)? How does this impact your initial reaction to the text?
b) Who is the protagonist in the plot? In what conflict is he or she engaged? If the plot were told in a chronological fashion, would this individual still be the protagonist? Would the conflict remain the same? How would these changes affect your reaction to the text?
c ) Who or what is the antagonist? If the plot were told in a chronological fashion, would this individual still be the antagonist? Would the conflict remain the same? How would these changes affect your reaction to the text?
d) What events are included in the rising action? How does the author's decision to include these specific events impact your thoughts and opinions about the text ?
e) What is the climax in the text? If the plot's events were organized differently. would the climax remain the same? What impact would this have on you, as a reader, and your reaction to the text? What events are included in the falling action of the text? How does the author's decision to include these specific events impact your thoughts and opinions about the text?
g) How and why does the plot deviate from the chronological order of the story's events? What impact does this have on you, as a reader, and your ability to understand the plot?
h) Does the plot contain any causal or superfluous events (events that provide additional information that could be left out, without affecting the course of events)? What role do they play in the plot? If these causal events were not included in the plot, what impact would this have on you, as a reader?
i) Are there any other events that you think should have been included in the the text? text? What purpose would they serve? How would they improve or enhance
j) Are there any events that you think should have been removed or omitted from the text? How would these changes improve or enhance the text?