M. Necip TUN 2005104456 AE 221 FINAL 4. Discuss the plot of the story and decide about the climax.

Is the climax based on action, or on epiphany, as it is the case in Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog? This story has a linear plot, in which characters and the events of the story are going in one direction chronologically. I will try to discuss it using Freytag's Pyramid, which states that plot structure consist of five parts. In the exposition we meet with the main characters of the story, respectively Tub, Kenny and Frank. Then we learn that they were going to hunt deers. They do not seem to get along well, especially Kenny make both Frank and Tub uneasy by his remarks and behaviours. In the rising action Kenny starts to become more and more irritating and starts to shoot at different targets he said he hate (seemingly) erraticly. After he killed a dog that he said he hate, Kenny aim at Tub. Tub thought Kenny would shot him, hence he made a move first and shot Kenny. In the climax we learn that the owner of the dog asked Kenny to kill his dog, Kenny was joking and Tub had made a big mistake. Thus climax clearly based on an epiphany rather than an action. In the falling action Frank and Tub tried to get Kenny to a hospital despite the heavy snow. Tub and Frank started to get along with better. In the resolution they get lost in the highway, could not succeed in arriving hospital before it was too late. 8. Do you find any traces of irony (dramatic or verbal) in the story? Demonstrate. I found one instances of verbal and four instances of dramatic irony. When Kenny said, "I won't say a word. Like I won't say anything about a certain babysitter." he reveals that Frank has an affair with a babysitter, contradictory to proposition contained in the words themselves and that is a verbal irony. If we are to find the main event of the story that is without a doubt Tub shooting Kenny. Tub did this because as Kenny shot the dog, we (Tub, Frank and even reader) began to think that something was going absolutely wrong, and when Kenny aims at Tub, he had every reason to suspect that Kenny went crazy and going to kill him. However we learn in the middle of the story that Kenny shot the dog because its owner ask him to do it and it is ironical in dramatic sense because as I hinted before similar to Tub and Frank we the readers surmise that Kenny killed the dog out of sheer rascality but this assumption turn out to be wrong. The second instances of dramatic irony might be the fact that even Kenny kept saying "I'm going to the hospital" all the way long and he (probably like his friends) believe that, as the author informs us at the end of the story he was wrong, they could not arrive at the hospital at least before it was too late. The third and fourth elements of situational irony that I think I found at the story are not as clear as the first and the second one as they can be evaluated as cosmic ironies (irony of fate). I think it is very ironical that two of the hunters, who by definition (at least try to) kill animals , get scared to death when one of them killed an animal. The final element of irony that I will talk about is centered on the fact that contrary to what

is expected (panic,guilt,despair and blaming etc.) as the result of such a unfortunate event (shooting one of your friends), Frank and Tub became more relaxed and intimate to each other like they needed this incidence to become real friends. Especially the scene at the bar was very ironical, they shared personal secrets, ate a lot and make jokes while Kenny was in the death agony back at the car, breezing from the cold.