1. In "Long, long after school," by Ernest Buckler, there are many ways the title (long, long after school) helped me foreshadow what's going to happen in the short story. First, just by reading the title, it helps me predict that some event happened, it happened after a long time, and it occurred after school, or it gives me an idea that something that happened after a long time after school. Another example would be, Maybe two close friends met up after a long time after they graduated school. 2. Many conflicts have occurred in this story between the narrator (unnamed), and Wes. First, the initial conflict, during the middle of the story, Wes says that Mrs. Trethewey was beautiful, but the narrator disagreed with him,"She was so beautiful, he answered me, as if no other explanation was needed; she was not beautiful." Many events may contribute to the rising action from the initial conflict. One of the examples are, the narrator, and Wes may never be friends again. Another example, the narrator, and the Wes might end up going physical. What I mean by "physical" is that they might be physically fighting, and this might lead it to the rising conflict. In other words, the events occurred in this short story, can be unfolded by choice of the author. In my perspective, I think the author, used flashbacks to reveal the events in this short story. …show more content…
The theme of this short story is everybody looks at beauty differently. One of the main reason the author came up with his theme is that, to give me a lesson, and that lesson is that do not be prejudice against people opinions. What I mean by that is, when Wes said, Miss. Tretheway was beautiful from his appearances, as a person, the narrator was against Wes's