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CHARACTER CAPTAIN

- Dorriza I. Malik

Helene’s husband/He - A typical man in a lonely long barn expecting to have a child. A very caring man especially to his wife named Helene. He’d been collecting packets of baby formula. He was good at salvaging. He never took anything for granted.

Helene - Her hair was cut quite short, her eyes were extremely pretty, gold-coloured, gold to green. Helene was very quiet mostly and she’d been a English teacher. She liked sardines in tomato sauce, and she was very polite.

Craig - The man that Helene’s husband shared with for a shelter. A rank bunker near the market, a sort of utility storage. He wasn’t clever or good at planning

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SUMMARIZER

- Junairy Caparro

The wind was coming from the east when he woke. The windows are boxed and clattered in their frames and also behind the storm boards. It is 23rd of December the morning was dark, or it was still night. He lay unmoving beneath the blankets, feet cold in his boots, his chest sore from breathing unheated air. The fire had gone out, the wood had burned too high or the flames had been extinguished by gusts. Coal was much better, it burned hotter and longer but it was hard to find and too heavy to carry. He pulled the blankets over his face. Get up, he thought. If he didn’t get up it would be the beginning of the end. “People who stayed inside got into trouble.” No one was going to help. Part of him understood who wanted to die outside, tossed about like a piece of litter, stripped of clothing by the hands of the wind, then lodged somewhere, dirt blowing dunes over your corpse? Crawling into a calm little shelter was preferable. Something hard clattered along the roof, scuttling over the slates, and was borne away. Whatever had been kept in check by the old Gulf Stream was now able to push back, unfurl and lash around. A bully of a wind, no wonder people had once created aerial gods, fiends of the air or the mountaintops. Even he took it personally, sometimes yelling uselessly at the force, his voice tiny and whipped away. Not often though, it didn’t really help.    

 When it came from the east a lot of the remaining house roofs went, and whole walls could topple. You had to be alert to the collapses. He turned on his side and shivered as the cold crept down his neck. He didn’t usually sleep in this room, but Helene was now in his. Another sizable object crashed past the house, splintering against the gable and flying off in separate pieces. Stillness seemed like a childhood myth, like the glory of August hay timing, or Father Christmas. Last night he’d slept restlessly, his dreams were violent; wars, animals stampeding, Helene being swept away. After a night like that it was hard to get up. Get up, then he thought, Buffalo. He pictured the buffalo. It was enormous and black-brown. It had a giant head and the shoulders of a weightlifter, a tapered back end small, upturned horns. He sat up, moved the blankets away, and then stood. He found the torch next to the sofa and switched it on.    

 The wind was quieter this side of the house, the leeside. Little skitters of soot came down the chimney and sparks rose from the cradle. He looked at Helene sleeping. Her hair was cut quite short, like his, but hers curled and was black. When they were open her eyes were extremely pretty, gold-coloured, gold to green. He imagined climbing on to the bed next to her and putting his arm over her shoulder. Sometimes when he was checking on her she woke up and looked at him. He knew she worried about the baby coming; that frightened him too. He was practical, and he’d found a medical book, but still Helene was very quiet mostly. She’d done well, he thought, lasting it out, but she didn’t seem to think so. He thought probably she hadn’t developed any methods to help, like picturing the buffalo, and he worried about her. She was probably thirty, or thirty-five. She’d been an English teacher, though not his; she liked sardines in tomato sauce, which was good because he had lots of tins.    

 She was very polite and always thanked him for the food. That’s all right, he’d say, and sometimes he’d almost add, Miss. She never said anything about what had happened to her, or the baby, but he could guess. No one would choose that now.     He had found her in the Catholic cathedral, what was left of it. There were two dead bodies nearby, both men; they looked freshly dead when he uncovered their faces. She was looking up at the circular hole where the rose window had been. She wasn’t praying or crying. He left some tea for Helen and always check the stock if it is enough even though it is unnecessary but it makes him calmer. The canned goods are piled for easier counting. A box contains delicate things inside. Helen loved reading, so many books had been destroyed because of poor climate.   

  The town's library had been demolished by a storm. He assumed that older buildings is more durable than these days, because people get tired and lazy. The man eat the salmon's eye. He need fruit but for the sake of love he might end up giving it for Helen. Having meals 2 times a day during winter is very important. Last Christmas he celebrated it poorly, but now Helen came to his life. After eating a small flakes and drinking the oil, he was planning a Christmas gift. He arrange the food and drinks for their simple dinner. He prepared his suit for the storm after he put it on he felt airtight, he wore helmet. There were 2 doors one is the north and other side is west. He stood at West, he opened the door and a strong wind hits him and begun his journey. He found the fifth house. The first house is his mother's house it's terrace is more Undesirable, he'd live in two a high ceiling once the big windows and roofs break the wind will easily  came in and destroy anything. there was a man name Craig, Craig was not good at planning. So as expected, bad happened. He tried to save anything, the avalanche walls makes his wrist fractured. He would go into the Golden Triangle a big Victorian houses. 

The wind made him crawl like a baby. He checked for the large incoming objects. Staying low is the best for increasing air resistance. He  clung to the cords of the building. This rope he'd put up himself, and he trusted it. After the farm there was a dangerous open stretch. One it was a town of magnificent tress and now they are dying. Suddenly a armored vehicle passed through, there was supposed to be more protection and organisation.     

When he got to The Huff he changed his mind and go back. Going back is a lot more harder. He'd be lucky if he don't break his neck. He gave his self a break then start crawling. The win taken him and throwing over. He felt dying and broken spines after he hit a rock. He evolved and became more skillful because of it. After 10 to 11 houses he starting to lose hope. After a long journey he found finally the selves full of book, he get one  and carefully open it and put in sack bag. He saw a mirror and look at the reflection. His knees hurt, he turned back away the mirror and go out the window to drive again in the snow.

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“Then Later, His Ghost” ^

-  Sarah Hall

Christmas coming, a man and a woman in a lonely longbarn expecting a child, a post-apocalyptic landscape, a journey out into the tempest. An exclusive short story by Sarah Hall.

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CONNECTOR

 - Junairy Caparro

The story of the Sultana's Dream is all about her journey or adventures just only in her dream while she was asleep in her bedroom. I connect this story to the movie entitled "Sharkboy and Lavagirl", because the movie also happened in the boys dream that the characters Sharkboy and Lavagirl are just in his dream. In Sultana's dream also the stranger that she called Sister Sara and the Queen are just part of her dream.

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LITERARY ARTIST

- Kisha Jamero

The flower represents femininity and the brain represents dream and technology and the different colors of the flowers represents creativity. This picture represents the main point of the story where as, their place were surrounded by flowers and ruled by women and they only use their brilliant mind and creativity in doing things to their place and men were designate and called only when needed and all those beautiful concept on their place , is just a dream of sultana.

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CHARACTER CAPTAIN

- John Goling

The Sultana - She is the main character of this story. The whole story happened in her dream. 

Sister Sara/ Stranger - She is helping the Sultana to think about why on their country is the man is the lord or the master. She is helping Sultana to change the Sultana’s mindset about gender equality. 

The Principal and her Students - they help the queen to make reality the queen’s Idea. 

The Queen - She leads her country to fight the enemy. Not by physical, but brain power.

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SUMMARIZER

- Dorriza I. Malik

One evening Sultana was lounging in an easy chair in her bedroom and thinking lazily of the condition of Indian womanhood. She’s not sure whether she dozed off or not. But, as far as she remember, she was wide awake. Sultana saw the moonlit sky sparkling with thousands of diamond-like stars, very distinctly.

Sultana used to walk with Sister Sara, when she were at Darjeeling. Many a time did they walk hand in hand and talk light-heartedly in the botanical gardens there. 

When walking Sultana found to her surprise that it was a fine morning. The town was fully awake and the streets alive with bustling crowds. Sultana was feeling very shy, thinking she was walking in the street in broad daylight, but there was not a single man visible.

Some of the passers-by made jokes at her.

She was enjoying the beautiful scenery of the place while walking with Sister Sara. They talked a lot of things about on how women rule their country, on how the men called women  "a sentimental nightmare" on how men laugh at women.

Everything was so beautiful the rights of women in their country is so perfect after their talked Sultana  was very much delighted to make acquaintance the Queen. After taking leave of the Queen, she visited the famous universities, and was shown some of their manufactures, laboratories and observatories.After visiting the above places of interest they got again into the air-car, but as soon as it began moving, Sultana somehow slipped down and the fall startled her out of her dream. And on opening her eyes, Sultana found herself in her own bedroom still lounging in the easy-chair!

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SULTANA’S DREAM ^

By:  Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein (1880 - 1932)

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CONNECTOR

- Dorriza Malik

 A Little Incident is all about a rickshaw puller who hits an old woman which caused her to fall and get hurt. Then he told the police officer to hand the rickshaw puller some cash. In the story he said until now the incident still keeps coming back to him. As I connect this story to a song entitled High Hopes by the band Kodaline, the story A Little Incidents talks about on how to survive or on how to get over on a past, a past that is full of misconceptions and lies. The song High Hopes by the band Kodaline give us hopes on how to forget all the bad memories that we had on our life but still remind us and coming back. This song is really beautiful that we can use as a inspiration in our daily live even in a little incident. We can say that problems are little incidents that comes in our lives but still our hopes to survive is high as a mountain.

Also, I connect this story to a novel entitled Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling, it talks about on how Harry Potter got his scar shape like a thunder in his forehead like in the the story A Little Incident, Harry got his scar in his forehead by a incident which is Voldemort cuss him by the used of a wand but fails.

The story A Little Incident, proved us that in our lives there are circumstances that we cannot forget but we can treasure and serve as a lesson and can used as a inspiration to face another incident in our lives.

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LITERARY ARTIST

- Junairy Caparro

I relate this drawing to the story of little incident as it portrays just like the puller in the story. The puller is injured along the story and cant continue to pull the rickshaw but the sad thing is he's just paid off for a few coppers to the man who hired him. Although he is just hired to pull the rickshaw, still the man who hired him dont have a conscience, that he didnt help the man who pull his rickshaw throughout the winter, collapse while pulling. Its a very sad thing to us people that we only need others just for our sake.

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PASSAGE PICKER

- Kisha Jamero

(1st Paragraph; Line 1-3)

"My heart does not seem to have been in the least affected by any of them and recollection now only tends to increase my ill temper and cause me to like people less as the day wears on"

It shows that someone hurt the persona from the past badly that affects the persona to feel cold hearted

(1st paragraph; Line 4)

"But once little alone is deep with meanings to me, and i am unable to forget it even now"

It shows the reader how badly the persona suffered from her past that leaves a mark on her mind

(Paragrap 8; Lines 1-2)

"It suddenly seemed to me that his dust covered figure loomed enermouse"

I chose this passage because it describes that the persona is changing and felt something that brings the persona back to being a good person

(Paragraph 8; Line 2)

"i felt bodily pressure over me, which came from his direction"

I chose this passage because it begins to show the persona's sympathy to the old woman as the puller takes her way to the police station

(Paragraph 8; Line 3)

"it seemed almost to push out from me all the littleness that hid under my fur-lined gown"

The passage shows that she finally feel the sympathy and realize things she did to from the past.

(Paragraph 10; Line 1)

"The wind had ceased entirely but the street has still quite"

It shows to the reader the struggle of the persona about her attitude towards the old woman and leaves something in her mind.

(Paragraph 10; 1st line)

"Till now the experience still burns in my memory"

It shows the struggle of person that happened to her that made her think of conscience .

(Paragraph 10; 2nd line)

"The political drama of these years is to me like the classics i read in childhood"

For her everything is just a story to tell and to remember.

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CHARACTER CAPTAIN

- Blstar Josol

The main character (Lu Hsun)- He does not have a care in his surroundings. He also do not like other people until the little incident hewas involved in. He was also the one who hired the rickshaw puller.

The rickshaw puller- The one pulled the rickshawwhere the main character was riding. He was the one who helped the old womanwhom he had collided with.

Old woman- A woman with streaks of white in hair and wore ragged clothes. She was hurt when  she and the rickshaw puller collided.

The Officer- he was the one who told the main characterto get another rickshaw.

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SUMMARIZER

- John Goling

It might have been a winter day The point when i procured a rickshaw puller with take me to the south entryway. The wind might have been exceptionally solid Furthermore irate Be that as then afterward An while, the wind directed. Those rickshaw puller went quickly, Also preceding we range our destination, an old lady went in front for us. Those old lady got caught of the rickshaw What's more fell of the ground. I let the puller that we must get setting off a direct result it could delay my journey, Be that as he didn't tune in on me yet, he went quickly, place down those shafts What's more delicately aided the old lady.

I didn't feel she’s harm. She’s only Imagining.

Those puller took those old lady of the closest police station. As they passed in, i felt inquisitive. A officer originated out from the police station and approached me. He said that i ought to kick an alternate rickshaw puller Since those puller can’t make me with my end any longer. Without thinking, i absent-mindedly get a huge fistful from claiming coppers, Also provided for it of the officer Also said that he if provide for it of the puller.

I strolled crazy of the spot. I wailing an illustration of the thing that completed i would. The reason needed i provided for them? and finished i contemplate myself after the thing that i did? i Might not address my identity or inner voice.

Till now, that background at present blazes in my memory.

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A Little Incident ^

By: Lu Hsun

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LITERARY ARTIST

- Dorriza Malik

Those three stars represents the three main characters in the story entitled A Day Off. Because they show us how beautiful life can be, they show us how the story flow amazingly. They let us know that the nicest things that comes in our lives are the unexpected ones, we just need to wait patiently until the right things comes. Life is beautiful, the only thing we need to do is to appreciate it until it shine like a star. Like, Zale, Abdu and Richard we can also do whatever we want but we should know also our limitations. Right things comes to those who wait so wait until you aimed it.

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CONNECTOR

- John Goling

The line “Wait for your call” refers to call that Zale is waiting for. The call can simply means that something is going to happen in their relationship with her husband. In the story, Zale and Abdu relationship has lost some spark and romance. This due to the contentment of Abdu to his wife, as he take her for granted after his work thinking that her role is only to serve him food and nothing more. This makes Zale unable to show her fondness to his husband as she knows that “he was dead to the world and that he needed a shave.” That call eventually didn’t came (“The call never came”) that’s why Zale decide to take a day off. This refers to the line “Ready to claim” as Zale was ready to take some steps in order to solve his problems as what the article(Drum) she had read suggests. The day off could help her find what she wanted to do and wanted too see in her life aside from being a housewife.

So eventually the day off help Zale to become a better person. The lines “I’m ready for it all, love I’m ready for a pain” suggests that she is now ready to face her husband with her new found identity. Further more she is now “ready for a pain” because before, she is afraid to tell her husband what she really wanted like cutting her hair.

The “behind the walls” and “I’m trying to change” lines refers to the change that Zale wants during her day off. In her day off, she hopes to recollect,redefined and reconnect her life. She recollect herself as a wife, redefined herself as a person, and reconnect herself to her husband and family.

The main points of the story heavily relies on the lines “Meet me again…In the rain” and “Got to find yourself alone in this world..You’ve got to find yourself alone.” The rain symbolizes depression and sadness, which can also be mean as the lowest point in a relationship. In which in Zale and Abdu’s case is their state of relationship at the start of the story. For me it implies that Zale wants to meet

The overall message of the story lies on the last lines of the song. “Got to find yourself alone in this world, You’ve got to find yourself alone.

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PASSAGE PICKER

- Junairy Caparro

(Paragraph 20; Line 1-2)

"I guess I'll just have to take things as they come."

It tells that the speaker or the character of the story let things happen the way it should be and just go with the flow.

(Paragraph 21; Line 1-2)

"But it's too nice a day to spend indoors."

In this line, the character tells that it doesn't mean that you stay indoors, its not fun or entertaining anymore. Its just like not all the time spending outdoors are a lot more interesting.

(Paragraph 24; 1st Line)

"The nicest things are the unexpected ones."

This line is related to our life, because as the character tells that the unplanned vacation, travels or happenings are the best and the most memorable.

(Paragraph 32; Line 4-5)

"A great deal can be crowded into a space."

As the character said, a plan or a deal will be settle and always be settled no matter what.

(Paragraph 33; Line 2-3)

"You never can be sure about husbands until you confront them with the fact."

The best line I picked in the story is this, it is because this statement that the speaker tells happens when couple is after their marriage. The husbands shows their flaws as the years goes by and tells them what that truth is. That's the time when the real them will be revealed.