After the Ball [Tone Questionaires]

1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?
--> Personal & violent

2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, experience anger or fear?
--> None of the above. The author just want us to feel the main character's love. How sweet and deep he was in love.

3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust characters or the narrator?
--> It's personal. The author likes the character.

After the Ball [Symbolism Questionaires]

1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
--> the clothing of Veranka
--> the guests and atmosphere at the ball
--> the sides of faces in humans

2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
--> the clothing of Veranka: her clothes's color is pink, and it tells of how she's still young and cheerful girl

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
--> Veranks's father: he represents how people change the mask when they are in different situation

4.Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
--> Yes, it tells on what riches use their time on.

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
--> The whole main symbol of the story is at the end.

After the Ball [Imagery Questionaires]

1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
--> "You say a man can't tell good from evil, that everything depends on circumstances determine everything. While I think everything depends on chance. I speak from my own experience."
--> "At the age of fifteen, she was already a remarkable beauty. As a young firl of eighteen, she was enchanting: tall, well formed, graceful, majestic- most of all, majestic"

2.Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
--> I felt happy and calm when the author described the atmosphere in the ball room. It's kind of relaxing.

3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
--> It would be sight. I just like a luxurious atmosphere, especially the ones that's in the Victoria era.
--> I think that the author wanted to let the readers know how beautiful the girl was, that's why she described it so elaborating.

4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
--> I think that it would help in explaining how fake Vassilievich's love was.

After the Ball [Point of View Questionaires]

1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or  may not participate in the events of the story?
--> It was a first-person perspective in Vassilievich point of view.

2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
--> It completed the purpose of the story because it was Vassilievich who still can't forget his love, and always unconsciously told the story. It started from that.

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
--> This sory doesn't have a narrator.

4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
--> To reveal.No.
 

After the Ball [Characters Questionnaires]

1.Who are the main character(s) in the story? What does main character look like?
--> Vassilievich          - he was handsome and rich
--> Veranka              - she was very beautiful and elegant; and gave a magensic aura
--> Veranka's Father -he was a fine man who Vernka slightly resembles

2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
-->Vassilievich           - he was deeply in love with Veranka
                                 - he lives alone                  
--> Veranka              - she also likes Vassilievich, but was a lot of times dragged to dance with another guy
                                  - she lives with her family
--> Veranka's Father - he worked as a colonel

3.What are some of the chief characteristics(personality traits) of character? How are those characteristics   revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexities of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
-->Vassilievich - he was a gentlemen. He thought that he love Veranka, but later when he knew that her father is not is good as he thinks, he became scared to really love her. He does not have enough will power with his love.
--> Veranka - she was somehow kind of demanding.
                    - they dance with each other to cummunicate
--> Veranka's Father - He was straight, and mature. But it is revealed that he was a cruel and cold man when Vassilievich saw him at night in the crime scene.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
--> Vassilievich had a conflict within himself. He doesn't know how he should continue to like Veranka. They stopped talking together little by little, until they don't face each other at all.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is this change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
--> There are some changes in Veranka and Vassilievich actions. Veranka became more thoughtful and Vessilievich doesn't follow his love again. It's not a plausible one. It did gave a sufficient time.

After the Ball [Setting Questionnaires]

1. Place- the geographical location of the story.
-->Inside the ball room at night
--> Outside the streets at night

2. Time
--> Around the time of Queen Victoria in England

3. Social Environment:
--> The upper class men and women

After the Ball [Plot Questionaires]

PLOT:


1.What is the Story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
--> Vassilievich fell in love with the girl at the ball, Veranka. He danced with her, talk with her, and faced her father. But later found out that her father was not as kind as he thought, rather, cold hearted. Sp he gave up on his love because he doesn't know what the girl is really like.

2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
--> Yes, chronologically

3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
--> The story was told like an interview(1st person).
-->Flashbacks are told often(the time when they first met before the ball).

4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
-->The story moves on with a slow pace

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forwar?
-->The thoughts of Vassilievich about how beautiful the girl was, continued the story.

6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
--> He had a conflict within himself(should he himself still like Veranka or not)
--> He did not resolve anything about the things he was confused about; but just ignore Veranka.

7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur?
--> Vassilievich found out that Veranka's father was not as kind and good as he thinks.
-->He saw what Veranks's father did while he was getting out from his house.

8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
-->The story goes on smoothly.
-->There are some flashbacks when they are dancing together(of how they knew each other).
-->After the ball, the incident began.

9. What use does the sotry make of chance and coincidence? Are those occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
--> The coincidences that happened are used to initiate the story. They made the reader knew more of why the incident became what they have become.