"Hey, Come on Out"

Dialogue

Theme

You can't throw away your problems. They will eventually come back to hurt you in the end.

With all of the dialogue, we can better understand what the author is trying to tell us. Also, with the dialogue, we can understand all of the characters thoughts and feelings. For example: In the story it says:

• "I wonder how long that shrine has been there."
• "I think it used to be right here."
• "No, looks like it was a little more over there."

Instead of all the dialogue they could have simply stated,"The villagers were confused about the hole." But to spice it up and to understand it a little better, they used all of this dialogue.

Role of Scientist

Future of the Village

The scientist wanted to fill the hole because he didn't know what it was, and that tells me that he is afraid of new or different things, or something he doesn't know about. In the story, the scientist says simply,"Fill it in." Then in the next paragraph it says,"Safer to get rid of something one didn't understand." This also shows that he is self conceded. If he doesn't know what it is, doesn't know what to do with it, or if it doesn't apply to him, then he doesn't care.

I think that soon on, in the future, the same thing will happen like what happened to the rock. All the nuclear waste and garbage will come back to their world, eventually. The people were too careless to worry about the bad things that come along with this "useful" hole. Bad things will probably happen to this village and in the end they will realize that it wasn't a good idea to use the hole for these reasons.

~Plot~

• Man VS Nature: In the end they will all have to deal with the environment after all the garbage that they threw into the hole comes out.

The climax is when the village starts to get bigger because of all the people who want to work for the man who owns the hole, and they have to build more buildings. One day a construction worker was standing on top of a building, and he looked up at the sky because he heard someone say,"H-ey, come on ou-t!" Then a pebble falls from the sky as well but he fails to notice. The readers realize that all the garbage is going to come right back into the city and cause chaos.

The rising action is when the people investigate. A young man yells down the hole to see if it was a fox hole or something. Then he throws down a pebble to hear when it hits the ground, but they never heard it. The scientist tries to figure out what it is and how it got there. Someone tries to use a rope to see how deep it is. When they figure out its an extremely big hole, the mayor gives it away, and people start throwing in old diaries, old papers, garbage nuclear waste, and everything else that they don't want.

The Exposition (introduction) of the story is the ending of the typhoon. It had washed away a shrine and now they found a big hole where it once was.

~Narrator~

There isn't really a falling action or denouement because the story leaves you hanging to guess and figure out the ending.

• Third Person Omniscient

Summary

Characterization

Concessionaire

• Greedy- He wanted the hole so that people could throw their trash in it and they would pay him to use the hole.

Text Evidence: They made a campaign sign saying," We've got a fabulously deep hole! Scientists say it's at least 5,000 meters deep. Perfect for the disposal of such things as waste from nuclear reactors.

Dwellers of the City

• Happy- They were getting a new shrine and meeting hall.
• Worried- All of these nuclear waste trucks were dumping bad things in the hole close to the village.

~Setting~

This story is about villagers in the 20th century. They were curious about a hole, made by a typhoon, where there had once been a shrine. The villagers all stood around the mysterious hole. Then a young man yells,"H-ey, come on ou-t!" He threw in a small pebble to see how deep it was. They figured out that it was a never-ending hole. The Mayor gave it to a greedy concessionaire. Soon, a business starts and people are allowed to throw all their old diaries, trash, unwanted items, and even nuclear waste and the whole time, he is getting paid for it. The small village flourishes into a large city. Because the city got bigger, they had to build more buildings. One day, on top of a building, there was a construction worker and he hears someone shout,"H-ey, come on ou-t!" Then (he didn't notice this , but...) a pebble falls from the sky. The innocent man has no idea what is going on, but the readers know now that everything that they threw away is going to end up back where it started...

• Small Village in Japan

"Nuclear power plants fought for contracts. The people of the village worried about this...Trucks rolled in over the road transporting lead boxes. Above the hole lids were opened and the wastes from nuclear reactors tumbled away into the hole."

~Mood~

Old Man

• 20th century

"Hey, Come

on Out"

• Wise-He knew they shouldn't have thrown the pebble in.
• Nervous/ Scared- he thought it would leave a curse on them when the guy threw the pebble in.

• Mysterious- We don't know what the hole is, how deep it is, where it came from, how it got there... It's all a big mystery.
• Happy(at the beginning)- They become a big city and flourish with many improvements.

Text Evidence: " You might bring down a curse on us. Lay off." warned an old man.

~Tone~

The tone is Neutral because the author just tells us a story that contains a cause ans effect.

By Shinichi Hoshi

By Sarah Pineda