Period+3+-+The+Old+Demon

Elements
Each group must explain the following story elements in complete thoughts and sentences.

The characters in the short story The Old Demon are Mrs. Wang, Little Pig, Little Pig’s wife, and A solider.
 * CHARACTERS:**


 * SETTING: The Village of the Three Mile Wangs by the flat banks of the Yellow River.**


 * THEME:** The theme of __The Old Demon is__ that seeing doesn’t believe just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not real. In the book Mrs. Wang didn’t believe in the Japanese until they bombed her town.


 * CONFLICT:**


 * CLIMAX:** The climax of __The Old Demon__is when Mrs. Wang and her family see the first airplane in the sky and things get chaotic and Miss. Wang cross the river and she can’t run anymore and she say go on I will catch up with you guys.


 * PLOT:**
 * 1) There was a war going on between Japanese and Chinese
 * 2) Mrs. Wang doesn’t care because she’s not directly affected
 * 3) She goes down to the river and notices its high for the year
 * 4) She and her grandson start talking about the Japanese with family around
 * 5) All go to bed
 * 6) Bombing occurs everyone is flipping out
 * 7) Wounded man comes up
 * 8) She decides he is Chinese
 * 9) She invites him in
 * 10) Her family tells her he is Japanese
 * 11) The Japanese come for the man
 * 12) She uses the river to wash everyone away including herself

-There was a war going on between the Japanese and the Chinese. Mrs. Wang an old Chinese women did not believe this because she had not seen any of it. Later her and her family was caught in the middle of it. When the attack began Mrs. Wang sent her family on and said she would soon catch up which didn’t happen. She didn’t believe in airplanes until one crashed in a field outside of her house. A soldier was injured in the plane and she tried to help him. Mrs. Wang didn’t know he was a Japanese soldier until she was told by Chinese soldiers. She did not care; she still tried to help the man who later died. She decided to go find her family so she climbed to the top of the dike to get a better view. As she got to the top he realized that the river had raised a lot in the past hour, then she looked over and saw the Japanese army was looking for anyone around. She know what she had to do, She had to take down the water gate and let the river attack the Japanese. She was not sure if she would get out of the way in time but she knew she must do it, so she did. Mrs. Wang died…

Web Links
Each group must add at least two (2) interesting web links to your wiki which provide others with greater understanding or insight about your short story.

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Quiz Questions
EACH member of the group is required to create one quiz question related to their story. Place your name in parenthesis after your question so that you will receive credit for it.

Q. What did the charecters go through?(Derek) Q. What did Mrs.Wang not believe in?(Monica)

Q what did mrs wang think of the wounded soldier?(bryce) Q: Where did the story take place?(Trevor)

Q.How did Mrs. Wang help the wounded soldier?(Courtney)

Q.When was the climax in the story?

Comments
You as an individual student need to make at least 2 comments on your wiki page and 1 comment on each other wiki page. (HELLO – we can tell who is making what comment, please be appropriate). These comments should be constructive and relate directly to the project.