A Grave Problem

Theme: greediness and  inconsistence

Characters

Main characters:

Ø  Mrs. Hata : very patient,  give more attention to her family (Protagonist)

Ø  Haruo: obedient, helpful, hard worker (Protagonist)

Minor character:

Ø  Masako : very helpful, daring to tell the truth  (Protagonist)

Ø  The priest: very greedy, inconsistent  (Antagonist)

Ø  Mr. Akagi: deceitful, very greedy  (Antagonist)

Ø  Mr. Norman: very greedy, inconsistent  (Antagonist)

Stages of plot

Exposition:

§  Story started when the writer wanted to bury her husband dead body.  She met the priest to tell that she wanted to bury her husband dead body at the temple.

Complication:

§  The complication of the story happened when the writer met the priest and wanted to bury her husband dead body but the pries did not allow her  even  he asked her  to move the bone of her parents in laws to another temple.  She had to pay him very expensive and she could not  pay him. She was shocked because this never happened when her  husband was still alive. So she decided to sell her kimonos to Mr. Agaki  because she did not want to use the money saved by her husband for buying the grave. The money was  only for her and her son, Haruo, not for buying her husband grave.

Climax:

§  The climax started when she sold her kimonos  to Mr. Agaki but he gave low price to them.  Eventhough  he was her husband’s friend ,  he did not help her  by giving the proper price of kimonos when she really needed a help.  On the other hand, he deceived her by giving them lower price which was very below standard of price.

Anti climax:

§  Anti climax started when Masako, Mrs. Hatta’s  husband sister, came to her house and knew some kimonos spread in the living room. She told her about what had happened,  like the priest did not allow her to bury her  husband dead body and Mr. Agaki who gave low price to her kimonos. And then Masako offered  her to sell the kimonos to her friend’s shop and to see the greedy priest. Luckily she got more money which will be more than she had needed.  Masako still accompanied her to go back to Mr. Agaki to take her kimonos home and he was surprised and puzzled with Mrs.Hata did that he actually had not expected her  back so soon to him. And then they decided to the priest to pay the money that he wanted as quickly as possible.

Resolution:

§  The resolution started when Mrs.hata got a phone from somebody who had her son repair his TV set. Both of them went to the man  but on the way they got an car accident. Their car slipped because of snowing .  They had the car repaired but Haruo did not bring enough money.  Mr. Norma, the owner of Auto Repair Shop, was in doubt whether they could pay or not.  That was why he asked them to pay directly.  All of her husband’ friends  changed after   her husband  death.  Finally Mr. Hata and Haruo were very relieved after  everything was done well.

Moral lesson :

v  We must not be greedy

v  We must always remember to somebody who has helped us

v  As the leader, we must be a good person because many people will always pay attention with what we do

Evaluation of the story:

The setting of the story was in Japan. The content of the story is very good. It consists of social critics happening in Japan and many areas in the world.