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A Literary Analysis: I. Title

This document provides a literary analysis of the short story "The Coming of the King". It summarizes the key elements of the story including the setting of a playground, the characters of some children and a travel-worn man. The conflict is between the children and their dirty playground environment. The children work together to clean up the playground in anticipation of the King's return. When a man visits and places his hands on the children's heads, they feel warm inside. The theme is about working together to make positive changes.

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A Literary Analysis: I. Title

This document provides a literary analysis of the short story "The Coming of the King". It summarizes the key elements of the story including the setting of a playground, the characters of some children and a travel-worn man. The conflict is between the children and their dirty playground environment. The children work together to clean up the playground in anticipation of the King's return. When a man visits and places his hands on the children's heads, they feel warm inside. The theme is about working together to make positive changes.

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Performance Task 1

10 - Peace

A LITERARY ANALYSIS
I. TITLE
The Coming of the King

II. AUTHOR AND BACKGROUND


The Author of the story “The Coming of the King” is Laura E. Richards. And the
background of the story was
III. ELEMENTS OF THE STORY
The elements of the story have Characters, Setting, Plot, Conflict, Resolution, Theme,
Moral, Tone, Point-of-View

A. SETTING

Place: Playground

Time: When the sun sets

B. CHARACTERS

The Characters of the story was the children’s who cleaned their playground, The

King, and the man who had travel-worn clothes.

C. CONFLICT

It has Conflict with the Environment; Man versus Environment.

D. PLOT

a.) EXPOSITION

The Exposition of the story was the playground was sadly dirty, and in the

corners were scraps of paper and broken toys, for these were careless
children.

b.) RISING ACTION

The rising action of the story was when the kids started cleaning their

Playground. Their playground was kind a dirty and they thought


That the King would probably see their playground when he’ll back.

c.) CLIMAX

The climax of the story was when a man approached them. That scene you can

Think of like “What is Climax?” “What will going to happen between the man

And the children’s?” These kinds of questions will retain to their minds.

d.) FALLING ACTION

The falling action of the story was when the man laid his hand on the children’s

Heads for a moment, they felt warm to their hearts.

e.) RESOLUTION

The resolution was when the shines on his hair that looks like a crown of gold.

E. THEME

Working together to make positive changes

F. AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

To Persuade us to always clean our surrounding with or without visitors.

To Inform about us to always welcome everyone who need home for a while.

To Entertain us with the flow of the story

G. POINT OF VIEW

It was a third person’s point-of-view

H. TONE

The tone of the story was an overwhelming feeling of happiness.


I. MOOD

It was reflective and kind a cheerful.

IV. SELF-REFLECTION/REACTION

Honestly, I actually don’t know what my reactions are while reading the story, I kind a

Don’t understand some scenes. But I still managed to understand it well after

Researched the words or sentences that I find it hard and my brother helped me too. I

Understand some, but not the whole story, so it was kind a hard for me to understand it.

But all I can say is, that even you act kindly or trying to make positive reactions to you, it

doesn’t require a king at all or some sort of a superior title, but inly the warmth in our
hearts can be as golden as a crown.

V. VOCABULARY WORDS
( 5 difficult words from the story, give its meaning and use them in your own sentence)

 Mere – means pure and simple, nothing more and nothing less.
"questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals"

 Strewed - scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area


"leaves strewed the path"

 Cloak - an outdoor overgarment, typically sleeveless, that hangs loosely from the
shoulders.
"she cloaked herself in black"

 Pleasant - giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.


"they found him pleasant and cooperative"

 Herald - an official messenger bringing news.


"the speech heralded a change in policy"

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