Going Blind

Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

First is the reason why the writer chose the "Going Blind" story by Henry Lawson. The reason is the writer felt interested by the title "Going Blind" and by looking the title he became curious about what is the meaning behind the story. The writer wandering if the story "going blind" is about a person who is blind or in other words about a person with low visual ability.

The second is the story, the story is briefly about a meeting between two strangers in a dining room at a cheap hotel and both of them get introduce themselves. Next the story moved to the conversation about the bushman named Jack Ghunter. The bushman tells about him self and his life experience and what happen to him now and why he became blind. The story continues until the other person felt pity on the bushman and wanted to do something but he could not to. Even he has a problem with the payment. And the story ended with the bushman, the stranger, and Jacob the brother of the bushman Jack Ghunter, sat together and had a drink.

After that the part where the writer thinks is the most interesting part. The most interesting part is all of the story ,because the story tells about the life experience of an old bushman who has so many pain in his life and how did he survived in the time with his situation. Those parts are really interesting and amazing, to see an old bushman has such an experience in his life that the story is emotionally touched the reader.

Finally the writer will analyze the story systematically which contains five elements of fiction or plot (exposition, conflict, compilation, climax, and resolution), character (main character and subordinate character), setting (physical setting, social setting, and metaphorical setting), point of view, and theme.

Chapter II

ANALYSIS

I. PLOT

I.1 Exposition

According to www.playwriting101.com/glossary exposition is: The first act of a dramatic structure, in which the main conflict and characters are "exposed" or revealed. Also, any information about the characters, conflict or world of the play.

Trough the exposition, the narrator describes the situation where the story begin with the main character in a full-and-plenty dining rooms at a cheap hotel. The main character boarded and resided there at one shilling per night.

I MET him in the Full-and-Plenty Dining-rooms. It was a cheap place in the city, with good beds upstairs let at one shilling per night--"Board and residence for respectable single men, fifteen shillings per week." I was a respectable single man then. I boarded and resided there. I boarded at a greasy little table in the greasy little corner under the fluffy little staircase in the hot and greasy little dining-room or restaurant downstairs.

In the beginning the conflict has not yet started. In the story, the writer explained the experienced of the main character with the situation and with other things in the room that exist at the hotel.

I resided upstairs in a room where there were five beds and one wash-stand; one candle-stick, with a very short bit of soft yellow candle in it; the back of a hair-brush, with about a dozen bristles in it; and half a comb--the big-tooth end--with nine and a half teeth at irregular distances apart.

Later on the main character met with the subordinate and he seemed a little bit amazed with the man he met.

He was a typical bushman, not one of those tall, straight, wiry, brown men of the West, but from the old Selection Districts, where many drovers came from, and of the old bush school; one of those slight active little fellows whom we used to see in cabbage-tree hats, Crimean shirts, strapped trousers, and elastic-side boots--"larstins," they called them. They could dance well; sing indifferently, and mostly through their noses, the old bush songs; play the concertina horribly; and ride like--like--well, they could ride.

Both of the character introduce themselves and have a little chat about anything.

He seemed as if he had forgotten to grow old and die out with this old colonial school to which he belonged. They had careless and forgetful ways about them. His name was Jack Gunther, he said, and he'd come to Sydney to try to get something done to his eyes. He had a portmanteau, a carpet bag, some things in a three-bushel bag, and a tin box. I sat beside him on his bed, and struck up an acquaintance, and he told me all about it. First he asked me would I mind shifting round to the other side, as he was rather deaf in that ear. He'd been kicked by a horse, he said, and had been a little dull o' hearing on that side ever since.

I.2 Conflict

According to www.playwriting101.com/glossary conflict is: The heart of drama; someone wants something and people and things keep getting in the way of them achieving the goal. At times, the obstacles can be common to both the hero and villain, and the ultimate goal a laudable one for both parties.

The narrator explained about the conflict that happen in the story, that is a conflict with the main character that he felt pity about what happen to the bushman and he whish that he could do something for him.

Going in next day I thought for a moment that I had dropped suddenly back into the past and into a bush dance, for there was a concertina going upstairs. He was sitting on the bed, with his legs crossed, and a new cheap concertina on his knee, and his eyes turned to the patch of ceiling as if it were a piece of music and he could read it. "I'm trying to knock a few tunes into my head," he said, with a brave smile, "in case the worst comes to the worst." he tried to be cheerful, but seemed worried and anxious. The letter hadn't come. I thought of the many blind musicians in Sydney, and I thought of the bushman's chance, standing at a corner swanking a cheap concertina, and I felt sorry for him.

I.3 Complication

According to library.thinkquest.org/23846/library/terms/ complication is: A series of difficulties forming the central action in a narrative.

The conflict is getting worst because the main character realized that he could not help the bushman, that he could not do anything for him.

I went out with