Comprehension
- The boys always dreamed of carrying the water, and the only way you can carry the watter was if the teacher thought you where strong enough to carry the water, the liked carrying the water because that meant they were one of the big kids
- The boys were shocked and mad to hear the girls might be carrying the water, so they didn’t let them play softball anymore, and writing threats off all kind to the girls, but the girls just stuck together and helped each other out.
Elements of fiction
- The story is being told by a girl, but her name was not told, Miss Ralston didn’t really give an answer, but she did say “I will think about that”. The story is being told in a third person point of view.
- The setting starts off in the school classroom, but after it was around the softball field, (EVEDENCE for the class room: “in our school the bucket of water was on the other side of the room behind the teachers desk” PG:4)- (EVEDENCE of the softball field: “the first thing that was clearly evident that Monday morning that the boys had decided not to let us girls on the field at softball anymore). The conflict was mainly person V.S person because the boys didn’t let the girls play softball anymore and bullying them because, Alma asked “why can’t the girls carry the water?”
- The protagonist is the girl who was telling the story, she was not defined
- On that Friday everything changed when Alma Niles asked the teacher “why cant the girls carry the water” the boys were angry at that question because something of theirs were being threatened something that they value a lot, and so in a response they ganged up on the girls. The thing that made the boys angry, was Miss Ralston response to Alma Niles’s Question, she gave her and the class her regarding about the question, that the fact that the girls might start to get the water, that set the boys off. The theme that the author was trying to deliver was that “women can do it too”.