:) directions use complete sentences to respond to each question about your novel or short story. when providing quotations from your text, include page numbers in parentheses. example describe the protagonist of your novel or short story. the protagonist of my novel is a tough, 16-year-old girl named delaney who is struggling to raise her little sisters. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. although she was just 16 years old, delaney had spent much of her life providing for her sisters. she displayed the toughness and weariness of someone twice her age (page 16). novel or short story title: what is the title of your novel or short story? title: 'wonder' author: r. j. palacio who is the protagonist of your novel or short story? describe the protagonist. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. who is the antagonist of your novel or short story? describe the antagonist. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. describe the main conflict in your novel or short story. which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you described?

Title of short story or novel the youngue delany

Author you

Describe the setting of your novel or short story.

The setting of my story is in an urban area  and the current situation where life is fast-passing and constantly changes  where the character often feels that life is ahead of them

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

“Poverty is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women." (page #5) 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”.  

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

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 is that a young 16 year-old-girl was dealing with poverty ,despite her father’s hostility to some of her decisions,delany is simply struggling to cope under painful and difficult circumstances You have never been a good father to us" (page #3)The story portrays conflict with others. The author (you) 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 #7) 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”.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe an important piece of the backstory from your novel or short story.

The backstory consists of delaney's father's childhood.the author (you) 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 himself from his daughters. "I was never meant to carry this burden, I still think about her, I do." (page #10)

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

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 #9)The author (you) 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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