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The exposition of "A Day's Wait" is that Schatz is a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. He is stuck in bed with a fever of 102.
Climax.... The boy refuses to let anyone into his room, he had a white face and was staring at the foot of the bed. The father told him to take it easy and to not worry. The boy was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.
Resolution: The father explains to the boy that he is not going to die. It is like miles and kilometers and that they use a different thermometer where 37 is normal. The next day was very slack and the boy cried at little things that were of no importance.
Internal Conflict: The boy has conflicting thoughts about whether he is going to die or not.
Example.... Schatz had been waiting all day to die, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.
Example: It was a bright cold day, the ground was covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice.
Use of symbolism: Some of the quails represent death and the others represent life. Quails also represent all people with the flu and only two people die from it.
Example: "...I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day."
Example: "We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank."
1.) The quails represent life and death, but they also represent what in connection with Schatz?
2.) In the story Hemingway states that it is cold outside. What does the cold weather represent?
3.) What do you think made Schatz reach his coming of age?