Assignment in English

(a shawl for anita)

1.who narrates the story?

-The narrator of the story is the author herself. She is actually sharing the story of
her sister Anita and how she envied her for being so loved by their mother as
what she believes in since she is making a shawl for her. In the story the author
realizes that their mother do not actually have favoritism but she is making the
favor all for herself because all she wanted is to have something to get busy with
which the author did not realized at one.

2.who are the characters in the story?

-mother

-children

-anita

-sister

3.among the character, who is so frail but never stopped working?

-mother

4.what actions did mother does?

- A Shawl for Anita" My mother brought us up single-handedly. It was a Herculean

task for a woman so frail, dealing with three adolescent children. But she
managed. She never finished high school, but her deft hands had skillfully eked
out a living for the four of us. She was good at knitting. That tided us over until
the eldest got a diploma of teaching. Then she put up a sari-sari store to send the
other children to college. Mother wanted us all to start a college degree and she
had sacrificed much to see us through.

5.Who is the child that the mother take care the most?

-anita

6.in what way did the mother stay same?

-work & own house

7.why does anita keep on requesting something from the mother despite her
mother condition?

-she felt so useless because she had nothing do to

8.how did the events contribute to the development of the narrator?

- In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story’s point of view. If the
narrator is a full participant in the story’s action, the narrative is said to be in the
first person. A story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story is a
third-person narrative

9.what specific change happened to the narrator?

- The middle child and the narrator is the dynamic character

10.what kind of character in narrator?

-Lolita M. Andrada