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Reading Analysis - Coggle Diagram
Reading Analysis
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Stop The sun
Story Elemets
Character
Protagonist: Terry, a curious teenager who wants to understand his father's struggles.
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Setting
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Place: Terry's home,school, a shopping mall, hardware store, kitchen and school librabry
Moral Value: From Compassion and understanding each other, it can help those who are hurting and who their loved ones.
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Conflict
Internal conflict: Terry struggles with his feelings of shame and confusion about his father's actions.
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Plot
Climax: During a conversation at the mall, Terry's father shared to Terry about his traumatic memory from the war where he witnessed soldiers die.
Falling Action: Terry realizes the depth of his father's pain and begins to feel compassion instead of embarrassment to his father.
Rising Action: Terry is determined to understand his father's odd behavior and even asked his mom and teachers about it.
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Exposition: Terry notices his father acting strangely and learns it is connected to his experience in the Vietnam War.
Reading Strategies
Rereading: I re-read parts where Terry's father is talking about the war, I noticed small details like his fear and sadness, and it helped to understand his pain more deeply.
Predicting: I predicted that Terry's father would eventually tell him about the war, and when he did, it made me realize how much Terry needed to know to understand his father's struggles.
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