Week Three

Reading Two: "We Real Cool"

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin grin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

1. Read the first few paragraphs and then stop. What potential for conflict do you see here? What do you expect to happen in the rest of the story?

I guess I see this story as everybody starts out as pure then as humans we grow in a world of sin and choose what muse to live life by and eventually everything comes to an end. 

2. What is the inciting incident or destabilizing event? How and why does this event destabilize the initial situation?

The choices of humans are sinful and looked down on; "We sing sin".

3. How would you describe the conflict that ultimately develops? To what extent is it external, internal, or both? What, if any, complications or secondary conflicts arise?

As humans we have to come to terms in life and find forgiveness and a muse to finish our life in. This story is bother external and internal. The story expresses feelings within the being of a human and the physical choices that humans make.

4. Where, when, how, and why does the story defy your expectations about what will happen next? What in this story--and in your experience of other stories--created these expectations?

The story starts out as a pure baby, a struggling teenager, a learning adult, and a dying elder person. I guess just how the story is told that give this pattern the layout I see the story in. from "We Real cool" to "We Sing sin" to "We Die soon".

5. What is the climax or turning point? Why and how so?

I feel that the sentence "We Sing sin" is the climax, because then the story starts going more in to a reflection of the past story to coming to an end of the stories life.

6. How is the conflict resolved? How and why might this resolution fulfill or defy your expectations? How and why is the situation at the end of the story different from what it was at the beginning?

"We Jazz June"; the story is coming to a resolution of life acceptance of everything that has happened. That the past is the past and the author experienced life with no regret.

7. Looking back at the story as a whole, what seems especially significant and effective about its plot, especially in terms of a sequence and pace of the action?

This goes back to the whole person's life is laid out within the sentences. The story starts out with a pure life, leads into a rebellious life, to a conclusion life.

8. Does this plot follow any common plot pattern? Is there, for example, a quest of any kind? Or does this plot follow a tragic or comedic pattern?

The pattern follows a humans life pattern from growing up from a baby to an elder. The beginning to the world and the ending to the world. The quest within this story is just living life.