Tutorial: Group Assignment

Topic: Analysing characters in the short story, ‘My Friend Luke’ by Fernando Sorrentino

Name:
1. NUR ILYANA QALISYA BINTI MUHAMMMAD IKHSAN (2020990387)
2. MAZWEEN MAISARRA BT MOHD ARIF (2020990331)
3. NUR MAISARAH BT HAMZAH (2020973277)
4. WAN AMALIN BINTI WAN MUHAMMAD BADRODIN (2020955309)

CHARACTER TRAITS
1) LUKE

No Characteristics Evidence

(What do you think about Luke?) (Why do you say so?)

Sweet, shy, 40 years old, short,
skinny, short-sighted
I have a friend who must be the sweetest, shyest
person in the world. His name is brittle and
ancient (Luke), his age modestly intermediate
(forty). He is rather short and skinny, has a thin
moustache and even thinner hair on his head.
Since his vision is not perfect, he wears glasses:
they are small, round and frame-less.

Thoughful In order not to inconvenience anyone, he always

Timid (not confidence)
Respectful of other people
People have lack of respect for
Luke
walks sideways.
He speaks with a very thin, subtle voice, so
inaudible that it is hard to tell if he is speaking at
all
He has never interrupted anybody.
On the other hand, he can never manage more
than two words without somebody interrupting him
1 Clever
2 Do not like to be troublesome
3 Hardworking in his job
4 Not love sports
5 Not selfish
2) LUKE’S WIFE
No Characteristics
(What do you think about Luke’s
wife?)
1 Thin, choleric, nervous woman
2 Bad-tempered person
3 A person who are considerated
3) LUKE’S SON
In bus, His eloquence is always effective and
some mortally ashamed passenger gets off at the
next stop.
Instead of saying 'Excuse me', he prefers to glide
by one side.
Even his salary is ludicrously low, but he still stays
behind in the office every day and works for
another three or four hours:
Luke is a tiny, sedentary, squalid person and has
never been interested in sports.
Luke has stopped buying his newspaper and (an
even greater sacrifice) The Reader's Digest, his
two favorite publications because his salary is
ludicrously low.
Evidence
(Why do you say so?)
His wife is a thin, choleric, nervous woman who,
as well as having an unbearably shrill voice,
strong lungs, a finely drawn nose and a viperous
tongue suffers from an uncontrollable temper and
the personality of a lion tamer.
Luke's wife has decided that Juan Manuel must
not do his secondary studies in a state school
after don Aqueróntido cut Luke's salary yet again
because do not want to burden Luke.
No Characteristics Evidence

(What do you think about Luke’s (Why do you say so?)

wife?)

1 Tall He is tall, blond, intelligent, distrustful, sarcastic

and has a fringe.
2 Intelligent

3 Distrustful Juan Manuel is not entirely true that he only obeys

his mother.

LUKE’S IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOUR ON THE BUS AND THE RESULTS OF THESE

BEHAVIORS

No Luke’s behaviour Result

He requests a ticket and begins to look for his money, It causes a fight between him
slowly. Then he pays with the largest possible number of and the bus driver
small coins, which he delivers a few at the time, in
varying amounts and at irregular intervals.
When winter comes, Luke always travels with the He has developed a chronic
windows wide open cough that often forces him to
stay awake entire nights
During the summer, he closes his window and will not He has ended up with first-
allow anyone to lower the shade that would protect him degree burns.
from the sun
1 Because of his weak lungs, Luke is not allowed to smoke It will clogs up his windpipe
and, in fact, he hates smoking. In spite of this, once and makes him cough.
inside the bus he cannot resist the temptation to light up
a cheap, heavy cigar
2 Sundays he dedicates to football and tortures the rest of It causes passengers to feel
the passengers with the noisy broadcasts. very disturbed.
3 To this end, he puts his hands in his pockets so that his It will make his neighbors feel
elbows will remain firmly embedded in his neighbours' uncomfortable
ribs.
4 If anyone is reading, they are easy prey for Luke. It results dissatisfaction to the
 Watching him or her closely, Luke places his passenger and can cause a
head near the light so as to throw a shadow on the fight between them.
victim's book. Every now and then he withdraws
his head as if by chance.
5 The moment he sees a woman with a child in her arms They will be grateful to meet
or a weak, elderly person climb on board he immediately Luke who has a good heart to
stands up and calls very loudly to the front passenger to help them.
offer them his seat.

Question:
Why do you think Luke’s personality with people who are close to him (Luke’s wife, Juan
Manuel and don Aquerontido) differ from the passengers on the bus? Write your answer in not
less than 100 words.

-Luke’s personality with people who are close to him different from the passengers on the bus
because he doesn’t want people be like him.Her wife is a choleric person.Other than that,his
manager at work is the person that violent because her boss give him so much work but pay low
salary .Luke’s treated people in the bus the moment he sees a woman with a child in her arms
or a weak,elderly person climb on board he immediately stands up and calls very loudly to the
front passenger to offer them his seat.