SHORT STORY ANALYSIS (15 points)

Name: Chayanan Anu-ekjit Section: 1004

Short Story Title: One Good Turn
Directions: Read the short story given to you. Complete the entire table for ELEMENTS; however, for
the PLOT LINE, your teacher will assign ONE part of the plot for you to analyze. In your plot line
analysis, ensure to explain in details what is asked for. Please edit your work before submission.
Upload your analysis in your individual GDrive folder.

ELEMENTS
(​Identify​ what is asked for in each number)

1. Main characters

Chalong is a static protagonist because he always help the poor people.

Nicomb Surasak is a static antagonist because he had a fight with Chalong and acted bad to the
poorer people. He might changed a little to be more responsible because he came back to his wife
and treated her but in my perspective, he did not change, he just acted nice to his wife but he
remained the same. He was still mad at Chalong and did not want to acted good at him.

Beggar is a static protagonist, she was poor and everyone acted bad to her until Chalong helped
her.

Mr.Sang (Coffee shop’s owner), Shopkeeper is a dynamic antagonist. At first he met Chalong, he
was mad at him because Chalond did not gave him money but he became Chalong’s good friend

Policeman is a static protagonist, he stopped the fight of Chalong and Nicomb and he was a good
friend of Chalong.

2. Setting

Thailand : Coffee shop, Chakravat road

End of the rainy season : about November, Noon (In the morning) 11 o’clock

3. Plot Summary

Chalong was going to the coffee shop then he fought with Nicomb on the road. He arrived at the
coffee shop then helped the beggar and her daughter to get food and gave them money. He met
the beggar again and it turned out that the beggar’s husband was Nicomb and they gave money to
Chalong for thanks.

4. Type of Conflict

Man against society :

Chalong had to face the problem of the society which was about the inequality and social classes.
The rich acted bad to the poor and the poor was afraid of them.

5. Theme / Moral (lesson)

Society satire
People can not be judged by their social statuses. We can not act bad to poor people and it is also
to the rich people. We can not say that the person is better than the person because they are
poor or rich.

6. POINT OF VIEW

3rd point of view (Omniscient) : The story was told by the narrator and there were some dialogues
of the characters.

PLOT LINE
(​BRIEFLY explain ​what is asked for in each number)

2. RISING ACTION
A. Do you find the series of events easy to follow? Why or Why not?

Yes, it is because the story took place in Thailand, so it was more easy to follow by the settings
and the Thai words. The actions and events in the story were also simple which made it easy to
understand.

B. Which series of events do you find most interesting? Why?

It is when Chalong had a fight with Nicomb. It was so Thai when the people were telling them to
fight each other like they were watching the Thai-boxing program.

C. Identify ONE figure of speech or idiom used by the writer in this part of the plot, and explain its
meaning.

The writer used a lot of “imagery” to picture out the actions. For example on the Chalong and
Nicomb’s fighting part, “Nicomb’s face changed from scarlet to purple,” it made us see how mad
was he.