The Girl Who Hunted Rabbits
Theme: Family, Motivation and Hard work
Voice: A descriptive pretentious narrator’s voice
Mood: Hopeful, excited, fearful, tense, surpriseful and joyful.
Tone: Exuberant, Worried, fearful, and optimistic
External Conflicts
Man vs Man: The young men refusing to give the maiden some of the rabbits
Man vs Society: Her not being allowed to hunt and also her parents resisting her plans.
Man vs Nature: The maiden’s fight against the weather, specifically the snowstorm that couldn’t let her go back home.
Man vs Super power: The maiden’s fight against the demon.
Internal conflict: Trying to feed her family knowing that it is dangerous to venture out alone in the cold wilderness.
Man vs Self: The maiden putting herself down and giving up when the demon started trying to shatter the entrance of the cave.
Climax: When the demon lifted his ax and began to shatter the rock about the entrance to the cave and enlarged the hole to soon devour the maiden.
Resolution: Catching up their wonderful weapons, the two war-gods came upon the beast “ending his daylight” by flinging the huge body of the giant demon down into the depths of the canyon. They restored the maiden and her garments in addition to teach her new things, giving her sticks with rabbits and protecting her until she arrived at her village.
QUESTIONS:
What happened to the maiden’s brothers?
Is the main conflict internal or external, if external, which type?
How is the setting at the beginning of the story?
What is the genre of the story called like? or What is the story's genre?
Why do the maiden’s parents resist her plans?
By Sofía López, Step 8 Yellow
