Assimilation and A Plague of Tics Discussion

A Plague of Tics

Naomi L Medley starts her response with what the plot is all about and captures the reader as well as draws their interest to read further. Using the words peculiar to describe the urges of the young boy draws the attention of the reader to find out more. In the second line, she makes the reader realize that the boy has a condition, informing the reader that the boy is not normal. The reader could be drawn back a little by the statement. However, the next line talks about the urges that constantly haunt the boy, which are quite interesting. Thus, she gets back the attention of the reader while managing to help the reader understand the plot. By mentioning that the urges cause the conflict in the story, she introduces the conflict in the story. The next line follows to show the conflict, where the boy cannot understand why other people such as the teacher and his family find his behavior out of ordinary.

In the second paragraph, the response provides a rising action, where the urges continue to haunt him. She clearly explains the continued urges as the rising action, providing the reader with information about what they would expect from the story. This tells the readers that the conflict heightens as the story progresses. She uses examples to further talk about the increasing conflict, where his father, pushed to the edge threatens him if he ever does that again. The response further indicates that this is not the end of the rising action, by citing what the boy feels which brings the story to a further conflict and almost climax when he realizes that hitting his nose provides the same satisfaction. This seeming as the climax, the response continues to say another possibility is realized when he goes to college. After interacting with his roommate and realizes that he can fit in with others. Resolution comes in shortly after the falling action when he starts fitting in with others.

Assimilation

Yui Hasunuma starts by giving a personal response of the story. The response states the feelings or the emotions evoked when reading the story. The response does not introduce the story. Rather, it talks about the main character. Despite the story being centered on this one character, the plot the story and events that build it are not introduced. Instead, it describes the story with words such as impulsive. The second paragraph is more about personal feeling towards the story. The response focuses on the one character yet again, giving details of personal feelings about her character, choosing focus on her infidelity and lack of a moral character.

Despite the story being more about the one character, Mary Lynn, the response does not provide an introduction of the conflict. The rising action is not indicated either, and it tells so much about the character’s negative traits such that a reader will almost have all her details. More so, the response makes assumptions about her life such as her upbringing, a partying girl, easy woman, a drama queen and careless woman among others. this are quite baseless assumptions, which are based on personal feelings to wards the character. Additionally, the response is not well organized to show the introduction, conflict, rising action and resolution. Towards the end, the response tries to explain that this depiction of the character helps to create the story. However, this is destroyed it is based on yet another personal assumption about her life in the past that we do not know from the story. It would be hard to tell whether the character did this out of love in the past considering the author clearly states it was an act of rebellion. The whole response is about the feelings of the person towards the character, and it may seem as though it evokes a certain emotion towards in reader, which may have been experienced in the past.