Birthday By: David Wong Louie

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BirthdayByDavid Wong Louie

• Presented By
• Eddie Love, Jeamea Williams, Crystal Smith

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Summary

• Story is about a man (Wallace Wong) fighting with
  another man (Frank) for the affection of a little
  boy (Welby) on his birthday
• Theres a man beating on the door (Frank) and
  another sitting in a room (Wallace)
• Its a childs birthday (Welby)
• Wallace came to get Welby to take him to a
  baseball game
• Frank will not allow it
• Wallace hides in Welbys room
• Discovers Slyvie comes back home to Frank
• Wallace decides to leave but helps make cake
  first

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Major Characters

• Wallace
• Narrator of the story
• Stubborn
• Caring
• Naive

• Sylvie
• Mischievous
• Commitment issues
• Immature (irresponsible)

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More Characters

• Frank
• Caring Sharing
• Jealous
• Mature

• Welby
• The focus and reason
• Innocent

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Title Significance

• Birthday
• Welbys birthday was the event that spawn the
  actions of the narration
• Allowed all the events to happen

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• DESCRIPTION OF THE STORY
• Detached Autobiography
• Told from Wallaces point of view (narrator)
• Tone simple
• Reliable Yes, the events he told were because it
  was his story

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Opening Closing

• OPENING
• Narrator is inside of Franks house and theres a
  confrontation b/w two characters
• CLOSING
• Wallace decides to leave but before he does to
  helps make the birthday cake

• Focus
• Author focuses on Wallace still being the house

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Wongs Transformation

• Matured
• At peace

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Theme

• Maturity and Growing up

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Allusions

• Sorry there wasnt any

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Symbols

• Radio Slyvies immaturity
• Baseball tickets competition
• Cake tranquility, peace, end

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Authors Goal

• To tell a story to express growing up and
  maturity

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Our Reactions

• Confused- in beginning
• Felt sorry- at the end