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Personification

Onomatopoeia

Noun

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

"She lifted the lids of the garbage cans delicately, and she did not hear Andy grunt because she was a little deaf and because the rain was beating a steady relentless tattoo on the cans."

"The jacket was a stupid meaningless thing that was robbing him of his life."

Imagery

Repetition

Noun

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

"He thought of her face, her brown eyes, and the jet black hair, and thinking of her he forgot his pain a little, forgot that blood was rushing from his body."

"He lay on the sidewalk with the March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body."

Figures of Speech

Falling Action

Simile

Hyperbole

Noun

Quotes

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Andy takes off jacket and dies.

"The old lady carried an umbrella with broken ribs, she carried it like a queen."

"Man, what rain," the boy (Freddie) said. "You could drown out there."

  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification
  • Repetition
  • Simile

"And now, standing with the cop, she looked down at him, and the cop rose and said, "He's dead," and all the crying was out of her now."

Climax

"It seemed very important that he take off the purple jacket."

"If we get a cop, the Guardians will find out who."

Denouement

Theme

When Andy takes off his jacket.

Laura finds Andy.

"She found him in the alley a minute past midnight."

"It seemed very important to him that he take off the purple jacket. He did not want them to say, "Oh it's a Royal." With great effort, he rolled over onto his back. He felt the pain tearing at his stomach when he moved, a pain he did not want to think was possible. But he wanted to take off the jacket."

Policeman arrives at the scene.

“The cop slung the jacket over his arm. He took out his black pad, and he flipped it open to a blank page. “A Royal," he said. Then he began writing“

Plot Diagram

Initial Incident

The main theme of this story is the importance of self-identity. In the story, Andy, a member of the Royals gang, is stabbed by a rival gang, the Guardians and left on the sidewalk to die. The Guardian that stabbed him did not know anything about Andy, other than the fact that he was a Royal. Everybody sees Andy as a Royal and that is the reason that he was stabbed and wasn’t saved. If he wasn’t wearing the Royal’s jacket, he wouldn’t have been judged by a label.

From this, we learn that it is important to be ourselves and not have labels define you. It also teaches us that we have to be careful of labels and not to associate with bad influences such as gangs, because different groups give you different reputations. Instead, we must avoid the labels and develop our own individuality.

There are a few events in this story that illustrate this theme. For example, Andy meets the couple, Freddie and Angela, who refused to help him because they noticed he was a gang member. In the climax of the story, Andy wanted to take off his jacket because when he dies, he did not want anyone to see him as a Royal who was stabbed, but as Andy. At the end of the story, when the cop and Laura find Andy, the cop writes off Andy as a Royal, and seems to think it’s okay because he’s part of a gang.

In all these examples, Andy was instantly judged as a gang member, although they did not know anything about him. Andy just wanted to be himself, but the label of being a Royal stopped others from knowing who he truly was.

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The echoing footsteps of the drunken man at the end of the alley way and Andy gargling blood.

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"He heard footsteps at the end of the alley, and he lifted his cheek from the sidewalk and looked into the darkness and tried to cry out, but again there was only a soft hissing bubble of blood on his mouth."

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Rising Action & Turning Point

Exposition

Rising Action

  • Problem
  • Setting
  • Characters
  • Mood/Atmosphere

1. The drunk man comes

"He lifted his face slightly and looked up at the man, and in the rain-swept alley he smelled the sickening odor of alcohol and realized the man was drunk."

Problem

Mood/

Atmosphere

2. The couple

"The couple came into the alley suddenly."

The problem in the story is Andy vs. himself. He fights his himself and contemplates who he wants to be characterized as.

"I'm Andy, he screamed wordlessly. For Christ's sake, I'm Andy!"

The mood of this story is sad, depressing and slightly sketchy.

"He had been stabbed ten minutes ago. The knife had entered just below his rib cage and had been drawn across his body violently, tearing a wide gap in his flesh."

3. The old lady

"An old lady stopped at the other end of the alley."

Setting

Characters

Turning Point

The setting of this story takes place in a back alley located in New York on a rainy March night. The story illustrates Andy lying on the sidewalk bleeding at 11:30pm.He is bleeding because a rival gang member has recently stabbed him.

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Andy, he is the protagonist and antagonist in the story. This is because he battles himself throughout the story

"He was 16 years old, and he wore a bright purple silk jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read The Royals. The boy's name was Andy." - Introduction of Andy

In the beginning of the story Laura is also introduced and she is a supporting character;Laura is also featured towards the end of the story when she finds Andy.

"He wondered if Laura would be angry" - Laura first introduced

Some side characters in the story include the drunk man, the young couple (Freddy and Angela), the old woman, and the policeman at the end of the story.

"The man came down the alley. He had not seen Andy yet." - The drunk man first introduced.

"The couple came into the alley suddenly." - First introduction of the couple

"An old lady stopped at the other end of the alley." - Old lady introduction

"The cop picked up the jacket and turned it over in his hands" - Laura brings a cop to Andy.

When Andy realizes he's going to die

"What good was a title if you were dying?"

"It was 11:30pm, but he did not know the time."

"They would move to a clean project in the Bronx, or maybe they would move to Staten Island."

"He heard footsteps at the other end of the alley..."

On The Sidewalk Bleeding

Written By Evan Hunter

Presented By Layla & Alex

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