LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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Melinda Alice wishes for beautiful clothes and earrings.
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Melinda Alice leaves for school early so she can study for a test.
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Melinda Alice almost crushes a snail beneath her shoe.
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Melinda Alice wishes for her next thousand wishes to come true.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The climax of the story is when Leita gets so sorrowful that she starts talking in her sleep screaming for Rhea, her sister, to take her with her. So, Mr. Peters wishes Leita into a swan again and sets her free!
Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the ultimate moral of ‘The Three Wishes’, in the last analysis, is found in the husband’s words at the end of the fairy tale: one should wish for nothing and either be happy with one’s lot or strive to improve it oneself.
Detailed explanation-3: -The falling action of the book is when Jackie, Charlie’s sister, comes to visit, she has a fun summer with Howard, and a social service lady comes to take Charlie back to her mom because her mom is “back on her feet". The resolution is when Bertha makes it so that Charlie can stay with her.
Detailed explanation-4: -What are Melinda Alice’s first 3 wishes? To have 1, 000 wishes, to be perfectly dressed and to have pierced ears and earrings. Melinda Alice’s conflict is that she is not prepared for her math test. The setting is a sidewalk on the way to school.