RUN+Strategy+DB

1. First complete the ** chart below ** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || Gus is at school and is informed about his Thanksgiving project, Gus needs to decide on something to be thankful for but leaves him thinking. || An elephant named Tara and Bella become close friends. || What has changed? || The closing situation differs from the opening situation because Gus escapes from the Bully being the problem because thanks to the turkey, they were saved. In the opening situation the problem starts when they cannot decide what to be thankful for. In the opening, the problem of the story is developing, In the closing, that problem is resolved. || The closing situation differs from the opening situation because in the opening situation there was joy when Tara met Bella and became the best of friends but in the closing situation of the story there is conflict between the two characters when they are separated from each other in cause of Bella's spinal cord injury but fortunately, the conflict of the story is resolved when Bella recovers of the injury and both Tara and Bella are reunited. || How is this achieved? || I do see the story in one character's point of view because in this story, Gus is the main character and is always being directed at when the problems are at hand. For instance, one problem was that his friend and himself couldn't decide between each other for what to be thankful for but in the closing situation the problem of the story is resolved by Gus choosing the turkey for the one thing he is thankful for. || Yes, I do see the story in Bella's point of view because the dog is the one that the problem is being laid on and it depends on her health if the relationship between Tara and Bella would continue. ||
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus couldn't think of anything to be thankful for. || Bella suffers a spinal cord injury and her friend, Tara is concerned. ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Both of them can't decide on what to be thankful which leads to the problem || They are being separated from each other while Bella suffers a spinal cord injury. ||
 * How is this resolved? || Gus discovers a new best friend with the turkey and becomes thankful of him, Thus, giving him something to be thankful for. || Bella is cured of the injury and they can see each other again ||
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view?

2. Then, by paying particular attention to the visual images in the stories and the ways in which these provide clues to the meaning of the stories, write a paragraph explaining how you "read" the stories to get the full meaning of each of the stories. You may find it useful to consider some of these factors: // **Feliz dia de Gracias, Gus!** // ** Paragraph Here ** : I think that the color of text of the whole story seems to use calm, collected, and childish with lower case bold letters. The composition of the whole story i think is a theme of a childish picture book. The setting of the story is known at the beginning which is in a classroom.The ??
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)


 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here ** :