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~To Every Thing There Is a Season~

Significant Aspect Leo H

Rising Action

Falling Action

Climax

The climax is really close to the ending of the story, this is because he only knows for certain Santa does not exist in the very end of the story. Right after he finds out it would be the falling action where there is not much of.

There was not much of a falling action since it does kind of story which ends right off the climax. So the falling action is just someone telling him grow up and stop believing in Santa.

The rising action was mainly about the little boy hearing that Santa is fake. You can see the struggle of him trying to think Santa is real, while everyone around him is convincing hes fake by not believing in Santa. However deep inside him he wants to believe in Santa and hate to grow up and forget about it.

Alistair MacLeod

July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014

Plot

Conflicts

Setting

Well the story didn't tell us where the setting is but it is obvious that it is from some farm up north since it is really cold. It should also be close to the great lakes from what it tells us in the story.

The plot was about an eleven year old boy who doesn't know anymore to believe in Santa or not. He knows he needs to move on to be an adult and forget about Santa, however he also wants to stay as a kid and go to sleep thinking Santa will come to him.

Conflict type will be man vs self, this is because most of the story the boy is struggling to chose to grow up or believe in Santa Clause the whole time. So the antagonist is himself, while also being the protagonist.

(Age 77)

Whats special about the story?

The story is special since it is really slow, however even though it is really slow it attracted the readers attention most of the time. There were some literary devices like metaphors and similes but there were not a lot. It was really interesting to read because there was some fore shadowing about the little boy finding out Santa is fake.

Important Characters

Theme

  • The boy

-His point of view

-His story

  • The boy’s older brother

-The boy

-The boy’s older brother

-The boy’s father

  • The boy’s father

-Ill

-Helps boy become an adult

-Gives the boy advice

Symbols

Represents the boy’s childhood

Sleigh

Represents the boy’s adulthood

Package

  • Main theme of the story is transitioning
  • The boy is transitioning from a child to an adult
  • This is because he no longer believes in Santa
  • The boys presents no longer say "From Santa"

About Macleod

-Canadian

-North Battleford, SK

-Cape Breton Island, NS

-Scottish background

-Novelist, short story writer,

professor

(previously a minor+logger)

-No Great Mischief was voted Atlantic Canada's greatest book of all time

-Taught British literature@IU

-Taught Creative writing@UofW

Sources (MLA format)

"Remembering a Great Writer: Alistair MacLeod Dies at 77." The Globe and Mail. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.

"Alistair MacLeod." The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2015.

"Tribute to Alistair MacLeod | CBC Books | CBC Radio." CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, 13 Feb. 2015. Web. 23 Feb. 2015.

-Most recognized for short stories

-Patient man

-Most of his writing done in CB

-"The ear is a good editor"

-Unknown world-wide

-Died in Windsor, ON

literacy techniques

Imaginary:

Readers can imagine the since of a large family home celebrating the Christmas; the sight in the church; or the conversation between father and that boy by using the information and description throughout the story.

Irony:

The boy knew that Santa isn't

for real but still tried to believe it.

Metaphor:

"The snow fell between us and the doors and was transformed in shimmering gold beans"

"I think, that the drowning man waves desperately to the lights of the passing ship on the high sea's darkness.For without him, as without the man's ship, it seems our fragile lives would be so much more desperate.

Foreshadowing:

The mother

didn't allow them to open the

letters of Canada steamship

lines which came with the

cartons is actually because it

contained the christmas gift.

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