By Laine and Amy

*Action – The Lemon Orchard

*Nature of the Conflict

*The conflict in this story is an external conflict.

*This means that the main conflict is between the two parties we are introduced to.

*It also means the theme/point of the story also comes from the problems between the parties.

*There is also a brief internal conflict, when the hotnot decides whether or not to respond, or at least how to respond.

*Story and Plot

*The exposition of the story mainly consists of the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.

*It introduces the people, setting, theme (although very surreptitiously) and the tone of the story.

*The Inciting incident could be considered as the moment when the “baas” starts to jeer and taunt the hotnot.

*The rising action includes when the baas continues to taunt the hotnot with the aid of his companions, and the hotnot makes the internal decision to not answer.

*The climax is then when the baas demands an answer at that moment or else, and the hotnot responds.

*That makes the denouement, the resolution, the rest of the story; however the ending is quite vague and indecisive, and leaves you wanting to know what happened.

*The plot is linear.

*Context

*The story is set in 1960s South Africa, during the Apartheid era.

*It is also presumed, from the opening of the story, that the hotnot has already been taken from his home.

*The story was written when seriously racist events were happening, such as persecution.

*The events in this story can be considered an extension of the other happenings.

*In a way, the author predicts, with this story, that the events will continue.

*And now, from the future, we can see that the apartheid era did continue on after this and these events, making the story an extended metaphor for the apartheid.