Micro fiction analysis (Radhya, Emily, Athalla)

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Group Members
• Radhiya
• Athalla
• Emily

Literary analysis questions
Elements of fiction

Alikes

1. Who/what are the characters in the work? What motivates them?
There are two young boys that comes from two different environment which is upper class kid and lower class kid.

2. What is the setting? How does it contribute to the meaning of the work?
India, it shows that child labour is still happening until now because their family needs money for their life.

3. How does conflict manifest in the plot?
It shows the morning routine of different two boys from where they start their day.

4. Describe the tone, mood, and atmosphere?
The Tone of this short movie is sad.

5. Who is the narrator? What is the point of view?
There is no narrator, For the point of view, we follow the morning routine of a middle class and a low class. It was third person of view in this short movie.

6. What is the theme, moral, point or life lesson on the work?
Theme  Seeing people’s life from two different perspectives.
Moral  Be grateful for what you have

Context

7. Who is the author/writer/director?
Author  Zeeshan

8. What is the genre?
The genre of this short movie is Documentary

9. What artistic, philosophical, ideological, or literary movement is this work a part of?
 Philosophical
Marxism: Marxism shows that everyone should be equal whether they are middle class or lower class.

10. How did the time period in which the work was created affect how and why it was designed?
The video was effective in deliver the message which is in only one minutes that get people to understand about it. …

Culture

11. Are you an insider or an outsider to the culture in this work?
We are an outsider to the culture that usually done in India because we’re not from there.

12. How does the work reflect a particular culture or cultural values?
Their behaviour or the activities they done almost every day from the morning until the ned of the day. The other middle-class kids go to school and the lower-class kids works to support their family economy.
Interpretation

13. What did the author want me to get out of this piece?
The Author trying to tell that there are lot of poor people, not only in India but in several countries but India has become poverty country and need lot to changes.

14. Do you understand that a work has a symbolic meaning as well as one that is literal? What characters or objects are symbolic (stand for other things)? For example, a rose may stand for love, and a thorn may stand for a painful aspect of love. What content - exact words, phrases, or passages - represents a symbolic expression?
Yes, work is a symbolic meaning that represents that people don’t give up easily. A symbolic expression that represent this short movie is “Morning teaches us that everything we do starts from our gratitude and dew as sincerity.” Which means that we must be grateful to what we have.

Deconstruction

15. What is a possible second meaning of the work? (contra #6, #13, or #14)
What people do in everyday life from the morning until the end of the day.

Personal response

16. What do you feel about the work? What do you think about it?
People need to be grateful for what they have and be happy about what they do & what they have.

Great to see this completed in class. Well done!