Alone and All Together

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“…and they all lived happily ever after.” For children any story that ends like this is good one. Is it the fact that they lived happy lives that made it good? What makes a good story? According to a blog posted by Dave Hood a hook, a desire to achieve a goal, interesting characters, a conflict, a challenge, obstacles, and a resolution make a good story.(Hood) Based on Hood’s viewpoint Alone & Altogether would not be a good story because there was no clear goal. A high school student says a little differently, “A good story has a climate, hook, interesting characters, appropriate tone, resolution, obstacles, conflict, and challenges.” (Claire) Alone and All Together would be a good story if you were to look at it through Hannan’s view. The characteristics both these views have in common are that a good story should have a hook, conflict, resolution, challenges, interesting characters, and obstacles. Considering these things Alone and All Together is a good story because it has all of these features. Major contributors to making Alone and All Together a good story are its conflict, challenges, and resolution. The conflict in Alone and All Together is that Labibeh and her sister are not proud of being Arab. This is a major contributor to making Alone and All Together a good story because this conflict is common and relatable. The conflict in Alone and All Together is common in all nationalities. It’s also common in races and religion. An example of this conflict is when Geha says, “… when she called us by name it was by our Arabic name –Salma, not Salma, and Libibeh, not Labibeh.” (Geha56) In this quote “she” refers to Libibeh’s grandmother Sitti, so when Sitti calls Labibeh or Salma she calls them by their Arab names. If Labibeh or Salma were proud of their Arab heritage why would they change their names to sound more American? A different example of this

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