Ernest Hemmingway

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A Days Wait

• Ernest Hemmingway
• Abby Barra, Brittany Meeks,
• Jeri Pautler

2
Characters

• Schatz
• 9 years old
• Pale boy
• Brown hair

• Father
• Likes hunting quail
• Nice, kind, loving father

3
Setting

• The house
• The boys room

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Plot

• Climax
• the dad figures out that Schatz thinks hes going
  at 44º to die since in France Celsius they die
  and temp.
• Schatz has a 102º Fahrenheit

• Resolution
• The dad explains the difference between Celsius
  and Fahrenheit
• and the boy is relieved and starts to cry.

5

Conflict

• The conflict of the story is that Schatz thinks
  he is sicker than he really is because the
  degrees in France is different then it is where
  he lives.

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Point of View

• A Days Wait is told by the narrator, the
  father. This means that it is in first-person
  point of view. This affects the story since the
  readers dont understand why Schatz thinks hes
  dying.