What are some of the symbols in the story?

Ans: There are many symbols in the story: Gillian, Hayden, Blind man, and the main symbol, money.

Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?

Ans: Money is a symbol. In the story, Gillian doesn't know how to use it. The money means a lot to everybody. Just like in the story, his uncle want Gillian to know the meaning of the money, so he comes up with the $50,000 so that he will learn how to use it.

Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?

Ans: Gillian represent the people who waste a lot of money. Hayden represent nothing, because she doesn't talk or show the feeling in the story.

Do aspects of the story’s setting seem symbolic? In what way?

Ans: Yes, in the story, characters and things are seem to be symbolic.

Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?

Ans: Yes, one main symbol is used throughout the story which is money, the symbol does not change but the one who use the symbol change it. (Gillian)

Tone

What is the author’s attitude towards actions or events?

Ans: The author attitude towards the actions is from the Gillian. Gillian has been a spendthrift boy. Before, he spend a lot of money, so I think that the author want us to learn from what Gillian did.

Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, and to experience anger or fear?

Ans: I think the story is tragic. I think that the author want us to feel confuse when the story had twist and change.

What is the author’s attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator

Ans: I think that the attitude of the author, showing compassion to the character. He did not like or dislike the character, but he also didn't support the idea of the character.

Imagery

What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?

Ans: There are one scene that I like the most, when the blind man change the story, the blind man change Gillian mind and the whole story just twist.

Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed or angry? Why?

Ans: The image that blind man change Gillian mind makes me feel surprise and confuse, because only one man can change another man mind and changes the whole story.

Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?

Ans: My two senses, hearing and seeing. I could see and hear when the characters are talking.. The author want we to feel like him,just as we are part of the story but we don't act as a character.

How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
Ans: My imagery makes me feel that I'm in the part of the story. I could understand the character's feeling.

Point of View

What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story and refers to himself as I? Or is the story told from a third person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story.

Ans: It is the third person perspective, which narrator is not in the story.  

 

What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?

Ans: The advantage of the third person is, we could know what is bad and good of the person. The author will make we see other point of view.

Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?

Ans:The narrator know the story very well, especially Gillian. He have the limite of character and event in the story.

Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?

Ans: Yes, the author use point of view to reveal the conflict. The misery thing in the story is that when the woman get the 50,000 dollars, she didn't reply anything back. I want to know her feeling.

SetC

Who is/are the main characters in the story? What does the main character look like?
Ans: The main character is young Gillian. He look like a cheerful improvident man.
Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
Ans: He lives in the city and he lives alone. He dependent on his grandfather.
What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes, and values. What is the main character's attitude toward his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
Ans: The main character is very spoiled, he spend the money wastefully in the story. The way he thought and the attitudes is like a person who don't care about the money. He doesn't know how hard it is to earn the money. He is happy most of the time but he feels sad at the end.
What sort of the conflict is the character facing? How is the conflict revealed? If it resolved? If so, how?
Ans: The character is facing the internal conflict because he must spend the money that his uncle gave him wisely, but he doesn't know how to spend it. The conflict is resolved by, the young man gave all of the money to the woman.
Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
Ans: The main character's friend change a large one. It change the whole story. He change the main character thought and make him decide to give all the money to the woman.

B. SETTING
Place: the geographical location of the story - a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.
Ans: A city, a large city, both indoors and outdoors.
Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
Ans: It was in the late 1900s.
Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class. ( lower, middle, or upper class.)
Ans: The location of the story is in the New York City. I think the main character is a middle class, because when his uncle dies, he has $51,000. That's not too much and not too little.

One Thousand Dollars

What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how they are related to each other?
Ans:  The story is about a young man who is very spoiled, his uncle died, but he inherit  $51000. His uncle decide to test him by giving him only $1000, but if the boy waste it then the other $50000 will give to the girl that he loves.
Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
Ans: Yes, the story is arranged chronologically.
How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
Ans: It is a normal narrated
Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
Ans: Slow-paced
How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?
Ans: At first, the boy don't know what to do with the money, so he ask the advice for his friend, then his mind change.
What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex? 
Ans: I would say the main conflict is the internal conflict because he doesn't know how to spend the thousand dollars he has been given. It is also emotional conflict, because the boy should deal with the money.
What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
Ans: I think the climax of the story is when the boy give all the money to the girl. The ending of the story is indeterminate.
Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
Ans: The plot is unity.
What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or resolve the story? How improbable are they?
Ans:  The coincidence of the story is when the boy met his friend and his friend just change his mind. It change simply change the story. It is improbable because he just give the girl $1000.