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.
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