PLOT POINT PHOTO COMPILATION

Can you imagine losing your mom at a very young age, what would you feel? Lost yet hopeless is what this son feels, affected by drugs and gangs, losing connection with father this short story, “Father and Son” by Bernard Maclaverty has it all. The son is involved with bad people, and drugs; in a rough neighbourhood in Belfast, Ireland. His father wants to know what is going on in his life, but his son will not talk to him. The hardships of the father and his son shown in this story lead to a tragic ending. The, “Plot Point Photo Compilation,” is a project based on matching the various plot points in the story to different quotes, and photos. This post shows the general premise of the story through photos, and quotes.

1) Exposition

Quote: “This is my son who let me down. I love him so much it hurts but he won’t talk to me” (165).

Explanation: The father just wants to love his son throughout the whole story, and his son wants nothing to do with him. This sets up the events to come, and the setting of the story. It also reveals the characters to the reader.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Rising Action

Quote: “I had to go and collect you, like a dog” (168).

Explanation: The reader learns that the son has been involved with gangs, or drugs before. The father has also had to save his son before. Tension rises between the son and his father.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Rising Action

Quote: “Why do you always spy on me, you nosey old bastard?” (169).

Explanation: At this point, the father is very concerned about his son’s safety. He fears every night that something bad will happen to him. The son is overly annoyed with his father, abusing him, name calling and completely ignoring his dad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) Rising Action

Quote: “Today I thought you were dead” (168).

Explanation: The dad is so worried, and stressed about his son. He knows if his son does not change his ways something bad will happen to him. This foreshadowing makes the reader very anxious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) Rising Action

Quote: “Your fingers, are orange with nicotine” (166).

Explanation: The father understands his son is completely disobedient, and still abuses drugs. The son does not care what his dad thinks of him and completely ignores him. Their relationship is now completely broken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) Climax

Quote: “There is a bang … My son is lying on the floor” (169).

Explanation: Confusion is brought to the father, and the reader. His son’s life flashes before his eyes. This is the most intense part the story; the son is badly hurt almost dead. The father has no idea what had just happened, his son went from happy with his friends to dead in his father’s arms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Falling Action

Quote: “I take my son’s limp head in my hands and see a hole in his nose that should not be there” (169).

Explanation: The father realizes of his son’s death. All the stress, and tension has turned to pain, and the father has lost the only thing he had left. There’s no getting his son back now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8) Denouement

Quote: “My son, let me put my arms around you” (169).

Explanation: The story is resolved in a bad way. The son’s bad lifestyle has ended his life. All the father wants to do is hug his son for the last time.

 

 

 

 

Math Blog post week 2

This week in math, we learned how to do Arithmetic and Geometric sequences. I learned how to find the term number given the term but not the term number. First we would find all the variables needed to fit into our equation Tn= a+(N-1)xd. So given, A=2 D=4 and we dont know n. To do this we put 94 on the left side and solve from there. This is something i never knew, i would normally add 4 until i got to 24/94.

 

Two fishermen sketch

Character sketch
In the short story Two Fishermen, written by Marley Callaghan “K. Smith”, who is also known as Smitty is a character which, Michael Foster the protagonist is investigating him. Smitty’s job is a hangman, which may seem like his personality would be toxic, but it’s not. Smitty is a genuine person, he has 5 kids and a wife. His smile is so bright; he cares about everyone but his job portrays him as a bad person. Smitty spends his spare time with his kids, and fishing. Working all day is tiring and fishing is a good way for him to relax. He is an independent person, so he enjoys fishing by himself even when there are no fish caught. Michael Foster the protagonist of this short story, is writing a newspaper and needs something to write about; he wanted an interesting story so he chose the hangman. They both went fishing and although they didn’t catch any fish, “I promised my wife I’d bring her back some fish”. Smitty is a caring person that he was catching fish for his wife and not even for himself. Smitty has many features about himself, he knows how to kill of course, hunt and fish. Smitty believes in Capital Punishment hence why he is the hangman. Smitty wants to make new friends, so he decides to give Michael 2 fish after their first unsuccessful fishing trip. Michael takes the fish and gets stopped because Michael is “friends” with the hangman. Michael denies everything and continues running away; he eventually gets the fish snagged out of his hands, and gets thrown at Smitty. “The expression on Smitty’s face as he saw the fish on the road made Michael hot with shame and he tried to get out of the crowd”. Smitty was heartbroken so he felt nothing but hopelessness because he thought he made a friend that evening.

Capital Punishment in Two Fishermen

 

Capital punishment is when you get executed for doing crimes that are under the categories of murder, rape and treason. Capital punishment had many different ways of execution, one being shot. Based on what I know about capital punishment, I think that the story took place in 1865-1961 because, Thomas Delaney was sentenced to capital punishment for raping a woman which after in 1962 the only way to get capital punishment was by killing a parol or police officer.

Personally, I don’t think he should’ve been killed for his actions, because there are murders who kill people and don’t get sentenced to life or anything close to death. Although I don’t support murder at all, I don’t think it’s fair I think a life sentence is appropriate because he was protecting his wife.