TASK PERFORMANCE

PORTFOLIO

Oclarit, Princess
M501

Professor:
Ms. Mariemel Oyao
 PRE- FINALS

ALICE IN WONDERLAND CRITICAL ANALYSIS

1. What is the relevance of the story in this era when it was published and at present?

I think its relevance in the present era is that, it shows how hard adulting can be. There are lots of things
that you going to be curious about just like Alice when she enters the wonderland. She experienced so
much things and meet a lot creature along the way but at the end of the day she has learned so much about
it. And that is exactly what is happening to people growing up in this era.

2. Who are the characters in the story and its characteristics? Describe their behavior, social norms,
and beliefs.

• Alice
The seven-year-old protagonist of the story. Alice believes that the world is orderly and stable, and she
has an insatiable curiosity about her surroundings. Wonderland challenges and frustrates her perceptions
of the world.

• The White Rabbit

The frantic, harried Wonderland creature that originally leads Alice to Wonderland. The White Rabbit is
figure of some importance, but he is manic, timid, and occasionally aggressive.

• The Queen of Hearts

The ruler of Wonderland. The Queen is severe and domineering, continually screaming for her subjects to
be beheaded.

• The Cheshire Cat

A perpetually grinning cat who appears and disappears at will. The Cheshire Cat displays a detached,
clearheaded logic and explains Wonderland’s madness to Alice.

• The Duchess
The Queen’s uncommonly ugly cousin. The Duchess behaves rudely to Alice at first, but later treats her
so affectionately that her advances feel threatening.
• The Caterpillar
A Wonderland creature. The Caterpillar sits on a mushroom, smokes a hookah, and treats Alice with
contempt. He directs Alice to the magic mushroom that allows her to shrink and grow.

• The March Hare

The Mad Hatter’s tea-time companion. The March Hare takes great pleasure in frustrating Alice.

• The Gryphon
A servant to the Queen who befriends Alice. The Gryphon escorts Alice to see the Mock Turtle.

• The Mock Turtle

A turtle with the head of a calf. The Mock Turtle is friendly to Alice but is exceedingly sentimental and
self-absorbed.

• Alice’s sister
The only character whom Alice interacts with outside of Wonderland. Alice’s sister daydreams about
Alice’s adventures as the story closes.

• The Knave of Hearts

An attendant to the King and Queen. The Knave has been accused of stealing the Queen’s tarts.

• The Mouse
The first Wonderland creature that Alice encounters. The Mouse is initially frightened of Alice and her
talk about her pet cat, and eventually tells the story of Fury and the Mouse that foreshadows the Knave of
Heart’s trial.

3. What is the Point of View in the story?

It’s a story about "variations on the gender argument" and that it "continually amazes us with its
modernity." The story of Alice falling down a rabbit hole and discovering herself in a funny and nonsense
world appears to be quite guileless as a fable. The underlying theme, of a girl growing up away from
home in a world that appears to be dominated by chaos and folly, is pretty terrifying. Alice is constantly
presented with numerous scenarios involving many kinds and interested creatures while being alone. She
has received no assistance from her family or the rest of the world.

4. Does the story portray the author’s childhood life? justify or prove your answer.

Yes. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson really loved children and dedicated his works for them. Alice, Henry
George Liddell's daughter, was the source of his greatest inspiration. Alice Liddell recalls reclining on
Carroll's couch for hours, listening to him tell fascinating tales of dream worlds. Carroll told the initial
version of what would later become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland during an afternoon picnic with
Alice and her two sisters. When Alice got home, she yelled that he needed to write down the narrative for
her.

5. What are the social issues involving and how does it affect the characters in the story?

In everyday-Victorian England, Alice represents a typical child. This child, Alice, has not been exposed
to diversity, but rather to the concept of solidarity. The form of cooperation that was all too common
throughout the Victorian Era, particularly in the parenting of children. In Victorian England, children
were trained to follow the rules set by adults and to ask no questions. Children growing up at this time
were restrained by these types of limits, which included not just physical but also mental restraints, such
as their imaginations. Carroll was no stranger to this ideal or the likes of it; in fact, he wrote Alice in
Wonderland specifically to break the Victorian-era England's creative 'norm.'

6. What are the traditions/culture of this era that is shown in the story of the different characters?

All Victorians' culture is built on the foundation of rules and manners. Different etiquette styles are
present depending on different social circumstances, such as attending a wedding or engaging in a
conversation. In fact, being well-mannered is as vital as, if not more important than, academics in a
woman's education. Through his various personalities, Lewis Carroll defies this conventional standard.
Alice is the conforming Victorian in the text and the 1951 animation, and she is plainly disturbed when
she is confronted to a disorderly Wonderland with no defined rules. She tries to maintain her demeanor,
but quickly discovers that having decent manners (aside from the monarchy) is frowned upon by
Wonderland's creatures, and communication has become a source of irritation for Alice.
STORY ELEMENTS: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
HUCK ANALYSIS
1. What is the relevance of the story in this era when it was published and at present?

- Twain developed and inspired the American literary canon, which millions of people still
appreciate today. Huck Finn has taught young Americans right from wrong, the importance of country,
and friendship via a story that continuously questions the notions of the nineteenth century American
South.

2. Who are the characters in the story and its characteristics? Describe their behavior, social norms,
and beliefs.

• Huckleberry “Huck” Finn

The novel's protagonist and narrator. Huck is the thirteen-year-old son of a local drinker in the Mississippi
River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Huck is conscientious, bright (though formally uneducated), and
willing to arrive to his own conclusions about important topics, even if these findings violate society's
conventions, as he is frequently forced to survive on his wits and is always a bit of an outsider. Huck is
still a boy, however, and is influenced by others, particularly his creative friend Tom.

• Tim Sawyer

Huck's companion and the hero of Tom Sawyer, the novel to which Huckleberry Finn is apparently a
sequel. Tom serves as a counterbalance to Huck in Huckleberry Finn: creative, domineering, and prone to
wild schemes based on adventure tale plots, Tom is everything that Huck is not. Tom's adamant belief in
the "authorities" of romance novels leads him to commit acts of utter insanity and heinous brutality. Tom
is aligned with the "civilizing" influences that Huck learns to see through and finally abandons due to his
dogmatic commitment to society's traditions.

• Jim
One of Miss Watson’s household slaves. Jim is superstitious and occasionally sentimental, but he is also
intelligent, practical, and ultimately more of an adult than anyone else in the novel. Jim’s frequent acts of
selflessness, his longing for his family, and his friendship with both Huck and Tom demonstrate to Huck
that humanity has nothing to do with race. Because Jim is a black man and a runaway slave, he is at the
mercy of almost all the other characters in the novel and is often forced into ridiculous and degrading
situations.
• Pap Finn
Huck’s father, the town drunk and ne’er-do-well. Pap is a wreck when he appears at the beginning of the
novel, with disgusting, ghostlike white skin and tattered clothes. The illiterate Pap disapproves of Huck’s
education and beats him frequently. Pap represents both the general debasement of white society and the
failure of family structures in the novel.

• The duke and the dauphin

A pair of con men whom Huck and Jim rescue as they are being run out of a river town. The older man,
who appears to be about seventy, claims to be the “dauphin,” the son of King Louis XVI and heir to the
French throne. The younger man, who is about thirty, claims to be the usurped Duke of Bridgewater.
Although Huck quickly realizes the men are frauds, he and Jim remain at their mercy, as Huck is only a
child and Jim is a runaway slave. The duke and the dauphin carry out a number of increasingly disturbing
swindles as they travel down the river on the raft.

• Widow Douglas and Miss Watson

Two wealthy sisters who live together in a large house in St. Petersburg and who adopt Huck. The gaunt
and severe Miss Watson is the most prominent representative of the hypocritical religious and ethical
values Twain criticizes in the novel. The Widow Douglas is somewhat gentler in her beliefs and has more
patience with the mischievous Huck. When Huck acts in a manner contrary to societal expectations, it is
the Widow Douglas whom he fears disappointing.

• Judge Thatcher
The local judge who shares responsibility for Huck with the Widow Douglas and is in charge of
safeguarding the money that Huck and Tom found at the end of Tom Sawyer. When Huck discovers that
Pap has returned to town, he wisely signs his fortune over to the Judge, who doesn’t really accept the
money, but tries to comfort Huck. Judge Thatcher has a daughter, Becky, who was Tom’s girlfriend in
Tom Sawyer and whom Huck calls “Bessie” in this novel.

• The Grangerfords
A family that takes Huck in after a steamboat hits his raft, separating him from Jim. The kindhearted
Grangerfords, who offer Huck a place to stay in their tacky country home, are locked in a long-standing
feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons. Twain uses the two families to engage in some
rollicking humor and to mock a overly romanticizes ideas about family honor. Ultimately, the families’
sensationalized feud gets many of them killed.

• The Wilks family

At one point during their travels, the duke and the dauphin encounter a man who tells them of the death of
a local named Peter Wilks, who has left behind a rich estate. The man inadvertently gives the con men
enough information to allow them to pretend to be Wilks’s two brothers from England, who are the
recipients of much of the inheritance. The duke and the dauphin’s subsequent conning of the good-hearted
and vulnerable Wilks’s sisters is the first step in the con men’s increasingly cruel series of scams, which
culminate in the sale of Jim.

• Silas and Sally Phelps

Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle, whom Huck coincidentally encounters in his search for Jim after the con
men have sold him. Sally is the sister of Tom’s aunt, Polly. Essentially good people, the Phelpses
nevertheless hold Jim in custody and try to return him to his rightful owner. Silas and Sally are the
unknowing victims of many of Tom and Huck’s “preparations” as they try to free Jim. The Phelpses are
the only intact and functional family in this novel, yet they are too much for Huck, who longs to escape
their “sivilizing” influence.

• Aunt Polly
Tom Sawyer’s aunt and guardian and Sally Phelps’s sister. Aunt Polly appears at the end of the novel and
properly identifies Huck, who has pretended to be Tom, and Tom, who has pretended to be his own
younger brother, Sid.

3. What is the Point of View in the story?

- The novel's ultimate messages of friendship, independence, and an ever-growing longing for
personal freedom have had a lasting impression on this country. Many people believe that The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows the reader that rugged individualism is as fundamental an
American belief as universal freedom.

4. Does the story portray the author’s childhood life? justify or prove your answer.
- Yes. In the novel, Twain expresses his anti-slavery ideas through Huck's moral growth and his
experiences with Jim and the southern slave society. Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn are good
instances of this because they both had comparable childhood struggles, were anti-slavery, and shared
similar social ideas.

5. What are the social issues involving and how does it affect the characters in the story?
- Mark Twain was recognized as a humorist, and he utilized comedy to bolster his arguments about
what he saw as the major issues of the day. Living during the Civil War, he saw and chose to highlight
issues such as slavery, child abuse, religion, and family feuds. Mark Twain conveys his disdain for some
of these severe social issues in Huckleberry Finn, yet he never loses his sense of humour.
6. What are the traditions/culture of this era that is shown in the story of Miss Watson and Widow
Douglas?
- The Widow Douglas, and her sister, Miss Watson, try to “sivilize” Huck by teaching him
manners and Christian values which portrays elders of this era.

JOURNAL
 FINALS
SUMMARY OF “THE LITTLE PRINCE”

The narrator, a pilot, crashes into the Sahara Desert with his plane. A tiny boy emerges out of nowhere
and asks him to draw a sheep while he tries to repair his motor and watch his dwindling stock of water
and food. The author then discovers that this "little prince" is from Asteroid B-612, where he left a rose
and three volcanoes.
The rose was the prince's most valued asset, but her turbulent demeanor and fickleness had worn him
down, and he chose to leave his tiny world. The flower, to his surprise, was visibly unhappy to see him
leave, but she encouraged him to keep going.
The prince traveled to different worlds and encountered interesting people, including a monarch, a vain
guy, an alcoholic, a lamplighter, and a geographer. He went to Earth on the advice of the geographer, but
landed in the Sahara Desert. He made no friends there, but a snake warned him that he could use the
snake's bite to return to his home world if he ever needed to. He encountered a fox who taught him that in
order to understand others, we must "tame" them; this is what distinguishes things and humans. The fox
adds, "The vital is invisible to the sight."
The narrator begins to like and admire the young kid, amazed at how vulnerable he appears despite his
solemn demeanor. He and the youngster find a well and drink from it, saving the narrator's life, but just as
he's about to gleefully tell the prince that he's fixed his engine, he comes across the prince discussing
poison with a yellow snake. The plan is for the prince to reconcile with his rose, but the narrator finds this
heartbreaking. Despite this, the child allows the snake to bite him and collapses in the sand. When the
narrator is unable to locate his body the next day, he hopes that the boy is still alive.
The narrator returns to his life, but he never stops wondering about the prince and hoping that he would
return. He requests that readers contact him if they ever meet the prince.

The Little Prince is one of the story's main characters. After leaving his
home planet and his beloved rose, the prince embarks on a voyage around
the universe.

The Narrator is the little prince's best friend.

The Rose – has difficulty expressing her feelings for the young prince.

The Fox - assists the prince in focusing on the important things in life.

The Snake - speaks in riddles and is reminiscent of the Bible's snake.

The Baobabs - depict the dire danger that awaits those who are too sluggish
to work.
Characters
The King - claims to be the supreme ruler of the universe.

The vain man is lonely and seeks attention from everyone.

 The Drunkard is a melancholy character, but he is also foolish because he
drinks to forget his troubles.

Businessman- owns all the stars

The Lamplighter - the only person the prince believes he could befriend.

The Geographer is a person who refuses to learn anything about his own
world.

The Railway Switchman - has a different perspective on life than the

unhappy

The Salesclerk - represents the modern world's erroneous emphasis on

saving time and cutting corners.

The Roses in the Rose Garden - first convinces the prince that his bloom
isn't real.
Rising Action The prince began his journey to other planets and landed on Earth in search
of mankind, but he first encountered the Fox.

Climax The prince recognized the Rose's worth, and the Fox revealed his secret to
him.
Falling Action Due to a snake bite, the narrator met the prince and was sent back to
heaven.

Outlining
Themes
1. The danger of narrow-mindedness
2.Exploration awaken a person.
3. Being in a relationship entails a certain amount of responsibility.
Motifs
1. Narrator’s drawing
2. Taming
3. Being serious
Symbols
1. Stars
2. Train
3. Desert
4. Water
Setting
1. Sahara Desert
2. Outer Space

Summarizing
The narrator, a pilot, crashes into the Sahara Desert with his plane. A tiny boy emerges out of nowhere
and asks him to draw a sheep while he tries to repair his motor and watch his dwindling stock of water
and food. The author then discovers that this "little prince" is from Asteroid B-612, where he left a rose
and three volcanoes.
The rose was the prince's most valued asset, but her turbulent demeanor and fickleness had worn him
down, and he chose to leave his tiny world. The flower, to his surprise, was visibly unhappy to see him
leave, but she encouraged him to keep going.
The prince traveled to different worlds and encountered interesting people, including a monarch, a vain
guy, an alcoholic, a lamplighter, and a geographer. He went to Earth on the advice of the geographer, but
landed in the Sahara Desert. He made no friends there, but a snake warned him that he could use the
snake's bite to return to his home world if he ever needed to. He encountered a fox who taught him that in
order to understand others, we must "tame" them; this is what distinguishes things and humans. The fox
adds, "The vital is invisible to the sight."
The narrator begins to like and admire the young kid, amazed at how vulnerable he appears despite his
solemn demeanor. He and the youngster find a well and drink from it, saving the narrator's life, but just as
he's about to gleefully tell the prince that he's fixed his engine, he comes across the prince discussing
poison with a yellow snake. The plan is for the prince to reconcile with his rose, but the narrator finds this
heartbreaking. Despite this, the child allows the snake to bite him and collapses in the sand. When the
narrator is unable to locate his body the next day, he hopes that the boy is still alive.
The narrator returns to his life, but he never stops wondering about the prince and hoping that he would
return. He requests that readers contact him if they ever meet the prince.