Friday, June 13, 2014

Short Story Analysis

On the Sidewalk Bleeding
Characters:
Andy – (the main character)
            He is the main character in the story that was sixteen years old, and one of the Loyals, and approaching the road of death in the March rain because of stab and wound from a thief that did to him in the alley.
A thief –
            He was a man that robbed Andy in the alley during the March rain.
Laura – (minor character)
            She was a dancer and Andy’s girlfriend.
A drunken man – (minor character)
            He was the first person who saw Andy in the Alley. He did not call a cop because of misreading the message from Andy as he tried calling it.
Freddie – (minor character)
            A man that was trying to call a cop to help him by all his force as he found him that was a Loayl. He did not do that because Angela told him that she wanted to get home.
Angela – (minor character)
            She was a girl that was love with Freddie. As she saw Andy was hurt by someone, she did not try to help and told Freddie not to do it as well.
Old lady – (minor character)
            She was the last stranger that crossing the alley, and also she was the only one that did not notice him. It is because she was a little deaf.
A cop –
            He was man in the out of the alley that heard the calling from Laura. Then, he was going to help her to save Andy.

Perpetrator –
            Guardians are the perpetrator because they are another side of Roayls.

Rival gangs:
            The old lady, drunken man, and Freddie and Angela all of them are the rival gangs.

Plot line:
            In the beginning, Andy was a man that wearing a jacket that signed “Loyal”, and got stabbed from a thief in the alley. And then he was trying to cry for help as he was realized that he will be died soon. Also, he was missing his girlfriend, who called Laura that dancing at home at the same moment. Then, there was a drunken man that found him and was trying to call a cop, but he was gone and did not do that because he misread the messages from Andy. After that, there was a man called Freddie that kissing with his lover that called Angela. He found Andy was a loyal and got hurt there; he did not help him to call a cop even he wanted, it was because Angela stopped him. There was a deaf old lady was collecting materials from the garbage after the couple were gone, but she never noticed him. Afterward, he was understood that being one of the Loayls was a small thing in the world. Thus hated and refused to be one of them. At the end, Laura went down and found Andy was lying on the ground of the alley, she ran out rapidly in order to find a cop to get help. Finally, she did, found a cop that can save her boyfriend’s life.

Setting:
·         This event was occurred in the alley during March.
·         The main problem must be loyal. Before meeting the thief, he would like to be one of the Loyals. After that, he hated it and also refused to be one of them because he realized that it was a small thing in his world, and should not care about that much.

Conflict:
            There is little reason that can conflict in the story. Because he was a loyal, the thief stabbed him, Freddie wanted to help him.  It caused him not want to be one of them. He wanted to be himself, which was Andy, not a loyal.

Imagery:
            Andy has smelled the sickening odor alcohol as the man was passing the alley. Andy also noticed that he was drunk. Besides, he did misread the messages from Andy, and he thought he was drunk and laying there to get a rest. He did not notice that he was bleeding. We could image the setting of that moment. Throughout the alcoholicity that he had drunk, he could not standing stably and his words was nonsense. 

Andy was “Andy”, not a “Royal”
            For the reason of him that wanted to be Andy, not a Royal, was because that he wanted to be himself. Throughout this incident, he has already realized that being a loyal was the great pride, but it also was the insignificant things in the world. The thief stabbed him and some stranger wanted to help because he was one of the Royals.

Creative writing:

            After the words Andy said in his minds, "Rain is sweet, I'm Andy", the world entered into the paralleled universe. Began to change every things and moment, just returned to the time that he was not a Loyal yet. 

At this moment.........

"I cannot get into Royals, but why?" said Andy. 

"Just calm down," said Laura. 

"I can't, it is all my dreams," said Andy to Laura. 

After the talk, he ran away rapidly and meet a loyal. A few minutes later, he killed him by his anger and rage. Finally, his thoughts were suddenly changed as failed to be one of Loyals. He became a man who hated Loyal very much, and then he decided to be a guardian and started to become a murderer of killing Loyal. Finally, being of this was turned into the important thing in his whole life. 

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