Wednesday, 12 October 2011

ASSIGNMENT silk scarf

PROTAGONIST: Mr Sakur

ANTAGONIST:  Mrs Nebo

THEME: 
Firstly,the theme or the message is that you can always get or do whatever you want simply just because you have the money or because you posses power. Example Mrs Nebo is the wife of a soon to be Minister  which gives her the power, plus she arrives in a Mercedes being driven by a chauffeur which makes her rich. secondly, that sometime you have be highly ethical and stack to your own rules and laws, like Mr Sakur had a law that under no circumstances will anyone pay with a cheque at his shop and he stood firm till the last minute.

6 WORDS
HUDDLE: Discussion group crowded.
FUNDAMENTALIST: Strict adherence to any set of believe.
PHILOSOPHY: The rational investigation of the truths and principles and being, knowledge, or conduct.
PROTESTED: An expression or declaration of objection or disapproval often in opposition if something is powerless to prevent or avoid.
INTENT: Is to intent or purposefully do someting.
OUTFITTERS: Clothing store.

SETTING DESCRIBING THE CHARACTER'S EMOTIONS
 Mrs Nebo and Magret went on a shopping expedition to the plaza and bough several items which shows how excited they were .

Mrs Nebo went to Mr Sakur's Boutique to buy a scarf she has been looking for,she felt a sense of satisfaction.

DETAIL
OPENING:Mrs Nebo goes shopping in style with a Mercedes, 2 bodygaurds and a friend.

RISING: Mrs Nebo buys a beautiful Indian dress and she needs a scarf to a silver scarf to match the dress and she finds the scarf in Mr Sakur's boutique .

CLIMAX: Mrs Nebo wants to purchase the scarf but she can only pay with a cheque and Mr Sakur's refuses to accept a cheque under any circumstance as he feels its the only right and fair thing to do.

DENOUNCING: When the shopkeepers buy the scarf and give it to Mrs Nebo as a gift from the traders.

ASSIGNMENT through the tunnel.

1 .PROTAGONIST- JERRY
ANTAGONIST-

2 .THEME:
Set yourself goals and be willing/able to achieve them no matter what the costs are be able to work hard for a positive out come. eg Jerry's aim was to swim across the tunnel, he trained himself how to hold his breath under water for 2 mins. He achieved his aim even though he bled, another thing is that we should not feel like we are hold back certain things we should be able to do anything.

3. 6 WORD
LOOMING: To come into a view as a massive, or indistinct image.
PESTERED: To harass with petty annoyance.
WRIGGLE: To turn the body with sinuous writhing emotionally.
INCREDULOUS: Is to disbelieve.
THROBBING: Feel pain in a serries of regular beats.

4. DIFFICULT PASSAGE
NONE

5. SETTING REFLECTING THE CHARACTER

- Jerry feels amused for being at the beach.
- in the sea while swiming with his new friends they made a way for for to swim which made Jerry feel a sense of acceptance.
-Jerry became terrified when he thought his friends were drawning beneath him in the water caves of the rock. 
- Jerry goes home from the beach and after waking up he has lunch with his mother which shows respect.

6. THE DETAIL OF THE STORY

OPENING: Jerry goes to the beach with his mom on holiday.
 RISING: is when jerry starts to wonder off alone on the beach looking for friends and swimming alone.
CLIMAX: When jerry finds a tunnel and gets determined to swim through it no matter what to a point where he trained himself into holding his breath.
DENOUNCING: Jerry succeeds swimming through the tunnel and goes home and tells his mother about it at lunch.

Sunday, 9 October 2011

THE SILK SCARF by: Ahmed Essop

SETTING:

place: The event took place in Oriental Plaza, Johanusburg, at a shopping center owned by Indians.
Time: Last days of apartheid.

PLOT:
            
Mrs Nebo was a high medium height woman of class, she and her friend Marget went on a shopping expedition in the local plaza area owned by Indians, being escorted by two build up me with. They bought several items like shoes, jewels etc, after that she saw a beautiful Indian dress in the window and decided to buy it and for the dress she needed a silk scarf but just not any silk scarf, she refused many until she came a Boutique shop owned by an Indian man Mr Sakur. Mrs knew it was the scarf that she had been looking for and decided to buy it but she did not have any cash on her so she decided to pay with a cheque. Mr Sakur refused as he was running his business according to his laws rules which one of them was “No cheque, No credit”. Mrs Nebo felt offended as she was used to paying with cheques and none of them ever bounced .Marget , Mrs Nebo’s  friend tried to convince the shop keeper by telling him about what status Mrs Nebo and her husband has in the country and how important it is that she gets the silk scarf on cheque, Mr Sakur still refused not caring about who she is, Mrs Nebo felt humiliated and decided not to leave the shop without purchasing the silk scarf she came for . Several shopkeepers who heard the dispute went over to the shop trying to convince Mr Sakur to just stake the cheque, even to a point where they had to remind of how their shops were smashed before and he still refused until the local shopkeepers decided to buy the scarf and give it to Mrs Nebo as a gift from the traders, she smiled and thanked them.

MAIN CHARACTER:
-Mrs Nebo is a medium height, wife soon to be foreign  minister.
-She was very rich and lived in a white suburb of Houghton.
- she was a stubborn woman who cared more about her integrity.
Mr Sakur was an Indian man who owned a boutique in the plaza, he was very persistent about sticking to his laws.