Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > English
Students' Story Writing Project
Nova Juthi:
Title: The title of this story is “The Victim”. The title is very much appropriate with the theme and plot of the story. As the whole action of the story takes place surrounding the main character, Jerin and in the last part of the story we find that she is ultimately the victim of dowry system, so we can obviously consider the title very much relevant to the story. There is a relationship between the title and the story.
Theme: The story deals with a social theme and it is dowry. The story brings out the problems of our society. It is a realistic story. The story presents the malpractice of dowry system which is very contemporary and relevant to the social perspective of Bangladesh.
Plot: The story is about a girl whose marriage is fixed with a boy named Rumel. The boy assured the girl that he will not demand any dowry. But when his parents went to that girl’s house to fix their marriage, they demanded a huge dowry. Her parents were able to give half of their demanded materials like television, refrigerators, furniture. But Rumel’s parents were not satisfied with only these things and expected more household gadgetry. When the girl, Jerin, informed rumel about this matter, he told her to fulfill his parents demand. At last we see that Rumel’s parents refused to get their son married with this simple girl Jerin. Though Jerin became very shocked observing human character, at the same time she became surprised thinking about how many the materialistic things could be important to some people rather than emotion and commitment.
Characters: There are seven characters in this story. Jerin is the central or main character and protagonist of this story. There are also some minor characters like Rumel, his parents, his uncle, Jerin’s father Monir Mia, his wife.
Point of view: The story is narrated from 3rd person point of view.
Setting: The place setting is in Nandigram, Natore. That means the whole action of the story took place at that place.
The events of the story took place at several times like 10 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m.
Language and style: The language of this story is formal and standard. There is no use of dialect and the language is easy. There are also a few use of complex sentence. But there are some grammatical mistakes in this story.
The diction of the story is not so much standard or catchy. The writer uses simple, lucid and common words. I also found a wrong use of word like the writer wanted to mean the word “renowned” but he/she wrote “renounced”. It makes me sometimes confused. Overall I can say that the story needs more editions.
Technique: There is no use of irony and symbol in this story.
Dialogue: There are a few dialogues in this story. The conversations are between Rumel and Jerin; Rumel’s parents and Jerin’s parents; Rumel’s uncle and Monir Mia. I think the dialogues are properly used and these make the story lively. The dialogues were enjoyable.
Structure: Though the story began soundly, the story turned into its pathetic movement when the parents of Rumel did not show any interest to get their son married with Jerin, the central character of the story. This is the turning point or summit of the story. Later then we find that Jerin was surprised noticing all the incidents happened with her especially when she heard from a reliable source that she might have been trapped after being married by the greedy family. But at last Jerin’s family got relief when they came to know that Rumel’s family was not like that as they thought. Jerin’s parents thought Rumel’s family as a decent family but the real thing was that the boy was drug-addicted his father was a psycho.
Evaluation: By considering all the facts I should mark the story as a good one. It is a well-written story. The concept as well as the presentation was nice. The theme was contemporary. The characters played their role perfectly. The story attracted me so much that I became curious to know the end while reading. I think as a member of a civilized society we should not treat the issue lightly rather we should awake our soul, ethics and moral values which are sleeping. The women should concentrate on their education and career rather than getting married at an early age.
arifulhaq:
Review of Story
Title: The title of this story could have better if it would be “Necessity knows No Laws” since the main character of this story has to go through the adversity that paves the way to be corrupted.
Theme: The theme is about a boy who is struggling hard to make a solution of life. For a better living a man even has to accept the illegal advice of bad company. Whenever we go through this story, we find an inner conflict within the character.
Plot: Here, the character is well concerned about his position. So, before undertaking any adventure he has to think over it again and again. The boy Hassan is very humble and ordinary in sense. But he had to go through experience. The adversity paves the way to be corrupted in spite of his having conscience.
Setting: There is no definite setting here.
Point of view : The story is written in the third person point of view.
Language: Here, the standard language is used. Sometimes, phrases and idioms are used to make the story attractive. But there have been several mistakes in diction. Subjects-verb-agreement is missing to some extent. But, it is a silly mistakes. Over all, it is well- constructed.
Dialogue: There are several dialogue among the characters. For example-
Hasan:where is your driver? You have to come with me brother.
Apurbo: Where I have to go sir ?
Apart from, these dialogues some phrases and idioms are used. E.g. hand to mouth, sixes and sevens, at a stake. All these bear negative meaning. That means this story is tragic one.
Techniques: There have a chronological order of this story that is the character shapes his dream and falling from the crest to the nadir of the bottom, when his mother falls in sickness and he is caught up as guilty. Apart from. That there are several techniques in diction to make us realize the tragic end of the story or the down fall of the character.
Evaluation: The story is very unique in sense and very contemporary. It is very common in day to day life. It may expect a good figure up to grade A. In a word, it is very interesting story to us.
Submitted By:
Ariful Haq, ID:142-22-336
Jafar Ahmed, ID: 133-22-288
Md.Mamun Miah, ID:133-22-296
sharifex:
Review of the story of “Rose”
Submitted by Group B
Md. Shariful Islam (133-22-290)
Sarmin Sultana (133-22-291)
Razia Sultana (133-22-289)
Aniqa Akhter (133-22-287)
The title of the story is “the title of the story of Rose” is appropriate because Rose is the main character of the story and it is a story of her life. Main theme of the story is man dominating society, emancipation of woman and a strong mentality of a confident woman. Jack represents the male dominate society who is unable to thinking equality of his wife role in the family. On the other hand Rose represents the confident and strong personality. She is not broken heart when she fallen any crises. She struggle in the difficulties of the society and save herself. She is aware of her individuality and believes in woman’s freedom. It is a story of Rose who is an orphan. She fallen love with a rich man Jack and marry him. Although she is devoted towards her husband try to solve his problem but her husband think she is not equal like him and did not share anything with her. He leaves her alone in Australia. In this crucial moment of the life Rose stand up with strong mentality. She able to stand her own feet but for a work permit she decide to does a fake marriage with George. In the mean time Jack back the country and aware about the entire incident. After some misunderstandings he able to understand depth of Rose’s love for him. Then they start a new life. Total number of character is seven in three major characters Jack, Rose and George one minor character is Marie. Rose is the central character of the story. She is the protagonist also. Although she is a orphan girl but she has confident and strong mentality. She is a round character. When she fallen any crisis she does not know what to do but because of her strong mentality and confident she solve her problem. She is devoted towards her husband. George is another major character of the story. He is co-worker and friend of Rose who secretly love her. He helped her when she fall any problem in a work place. When he aware about Rose and jack’s misunderstanding because of him he solves their problem and sacrifices his love for their happy conjugal life. He is a round character. Rose’s husband Jack another important character of the story. Although their marriage is a love marriage but he cannot think Rose is equal like him. He represent male dominate mentality. He does not share his problem and thoughts with rose. But at the last part of the story he able to change his mentality and leave Melbourne to start a new life with Rose. Marie is a minor character. She is a good friend of Rose and help her when she fallen crisis. Mr. and Mrs. smith both are minor character, they have no any significance role in this story. The story has been taken place in Melbourne, Australia especially in the airport. Because in the airport, Jack leaves Rose alone, Jack leaves Rose alone, Rose work at the airport’s shop and in the same place they leaves Melbourne to short their new life. The way of narration is third person singular nimber. Steve is another minor character of “the title of the story of Rose”. He is a friend of Jack. He has a phone call in the first part of the story. Without the phone call he have no role in this story.
In this story both formal and informal languages are used. Informal languages are used for day to day conversation between the characters. Two informal words are found- ‘guy’ and ‘yeah’. Replaced these two words it is better to use ‘person’ and ‘yes’.
Day to day conversation is present through dialogues in this story. The dialogues are appropriate.
It is the story with happy ending. The climax of the story is when Jack knows about the fake marriage of Rose and George. A few symbols like lifeless, crossroads, fresh, innocent beauty are used in this story.
It is a normal social story. Although Rose tried to establish herself in the society but at the last point she accepted Jack’s domination over her who leaved her all alone one day. She sacrificed her career and leaved Melbourne to start a new life with Jack. Happiness comes with sacrifice of Rose.
saiyed:
Title:
The following title is very much close to the subject matter or plot of the story. Because at last we have seen that the protagonist Ayesha starts his life in a new way. Therefore it is appropriate or suitable for the story.
Theme:
The subject matter or the theme of the story is social problem. And that social problem is none other than early marriage and how it destroy an innocent life. Early marriage is life a curse for society. It is considered as a obstacle for our development process. At the same time the story also highlights how we could we reduce or protest against this social evil
Plot:
In the story we find the following event, like a girl named Ayesha got GPA- 5 in her J.S.C exam. As for this reason awarded as a meritorious student of the year where the chairman is the chief guest. The chairman fall a kind of attraction for Ayesha and made up his mind to marry this girl by hook or crook. On the other hand Tarun is young boy who worked in a secular society is trying to enlighten the villages. When Ayesha’s father discuss this matter with his wife then she refused the proposal. The next morning Mr. Rahim went to chairman’s house and told that they rejected the proposal. Therefore the chairman became very angry and ordered some sycophants to kill Ayesha’s father which they did. After that the chairman threatens Ayesha’s mother to give her daughter’s marriage with him otherwise she will lose her children in the same way she lost her husband. Therefore she forcedly agree with his proposal. And the climax of the comes when Ayesha learns that he is going to marry the old chairman. Therefore her two friends along with Tarun came to the Weeding ceremony and stop the marriage. Then the police arrested the chairman and Ayesha’s mother revealed that the chairman killed her father. Then Tarun help’s Ayesha to target all this and start life with new hopes and desires.
Character:
There are basically seven characters. Among them three major characters and four minor characters. The major characters are:
Ayesha: The protagonist of the story. A young fun loving girl through which the story centers around. She is a dynamic character.
Tarun: A young boy who worked in the secular society to enlighten villages. He is also dynamic character.
The chairman: The chairman is the antagonist of the story who made evil plan to marry Ayesha and therefore he has been doing all the evil deeds.
The minor characters are including:
Rehana and Parven: Two friends of Ayesha whom helped her to stop the marriage. They are static character but at last they changed action which proved them to be as dynamic character.
Mr. Rahim and Mrs. Rahima: Father and mother of Ayesha. Besides these there are police officer, villagers and sycophants are also plays significant role.
Point of view:
The story has been written from third person point of view.
Setting :
The whole Story takes place Rasulpur . And most of the scene occurs in the evening.
Language:
The Author used formal English but there is also mentioning of some informal language. One thing that is more important to say that if the author uses some dictions then it would be more beautiful and enjoyable to read.
Style:
The author tries to follow the rules of Standard English in their writing. But sometimes we have seen some grammatical mistakes and use of preposition.
Dialogue:
The author uses some interesting dialogues here which adds new dimension to the story. At the same time it makes the story more lively than it really is. For example the dialogues between Mr. Rahim and the chairman sounds interesting.
Technique:
The writer uses mostly irony here. Like the chairman wants to marry Ayesha but she doesn’t know it.
Structure:
The story certainly follows the structure of atypical story has. For example it has foreshadowing, raising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Like here at first we have discovered that there is a description of the village. Then the raising action comes when the chairman decided to marry Ayesha and send proposal to his father which they refused. And then the climax comes when Ayesha learns that she is going to marry the old chairman. And finally the resolution when Ayesha’s mother revealed the truth and Ayesha starts his life in a new way. In other words she starts his life in a new way.
Comment:
The story has made huge impact on the reader’s mind. It raises awareness among them. And the same time it helps them to protest against all kinds of social crime. Overall it an enjoyable story to read.
Submitted By:
Group-F
Saiyed Atikur Rahman ID: 141-22-312
Md. Mahmud Hossain ID: 141-22-311
Himadree Shekhar Banik ID: 141-22-313
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