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Title: The Young Delany
Author: Yourself
Describe the setting of your story: The setting of the story is in the urban areas and the current situation where life is fast-pacing and constantly changes where the characters often feels that life is ahead of them. (you can insert the time and place that you like in here)
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Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.
"Poverty is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women." (page #) Delany's childhood is described as a time of great deprivation, but of good humor and adventure as well. Despite constant poverty, a criminally irresponsible father, and the death of her mother, Delany is a loving sister who retains her sense of humor. Delany must sacrifice her standards of dignity and class in order to provide for her sisters. Still, she never lowers her expectations for her family—she raises them to be well-behaved, conscientious, kind, and hardworking.
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Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed?
The conflict of the story would be how a young girl of 16 years old dealt with poverty, despite her father's hostility to some of her decisions. Delany is simply struggling to cope under highly difficult and painful circumstances. "You have never been a good father to us" (page #)The story portrays conflict with others. The author (yourself) makes it clear that Delany's first priority is her sisters' welfare.
Describe the antagonist from your novel or short story.
Delany's father strives to reach beyond the limitations forced upon him by poverty. He becomes determined to achieve success in life and to provide for his family and, indeed, he is relieved to leave school at age fourteen in order to get a job. Though he does not explicitly acknowledge it, Delany's father is burdened by the necessity of acting as a father figure for his family. He starts to suffer from an overwhelming sense of guilt. "The burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own." (page #) He worries that by sinning he has doomed himself and the people he loves. He channels the disappointments of his difficult life into self-recrimination. He escapes his fears and guilt by reading, watching movies, listening to the radio, and daydreaming.
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Describe an important piece of the backstory from your novel or short story.
The backstory consists of Delany's father childhood. The author (yourself) writes his memoir in the present tense from the perspective of a young boy. The memoir often distances Delany's father, the young boy who simply wanted to have family, to a man who lost his wife and whose guilt and disappointment causes him to distance from his daughters. "I was never meant to carry this burden, I still think about her, I do." (page #)
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Describe an early development in the plot and explain why it is important.
Delany increasingly condemns his father's irresponsibility but worries also about the morality of her own behavior and her sisters; she determines to make a success of herself. "Delany grows determined to prove that he can succeed and earn people's respect". (page #)The author (yourself) also withholds the information that Delany's mother has died until the later part of the story and that her mother's death was the cause of her father's actions.
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