PLOT:THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE

1.   The Californian's Tale is about a lone wanderer who stumbles into a strange little town somewhere in California. He realizes that this town is almost deserted with very few residents in the area. He stumbles into a house, in which a man welcomes him in as a guest and invites him to stay for a few days. The house is described as very beautiful and decorated, which the owner's wife had decorated. The owner of the house is very fond and speaks highly of his wife, he tells the visitor that she is on vacation for a while. Eager to introduce his wife, the owner insists the visitor wait until an upcoming Saturday which is when his wife would come home. The visitor decides to stay and meet the wife of the house owner. On Saturday, a big welcome back party takes place to welcome the wife back from vacation and the whole town gets together. Little does the visitor know that the man's wife has been dead for nineteen years already, and that the man is mentally unstable. Every year, the husband gets in a mind state that believes his wife is coming home from vacation and the whole town throws a party to help him believe his wife is still alive. This is because the man cannot cope with the loss of his wife and refuses to believe she is dead, so the whole town helps him with his dilemma every year.

2. This story is arranged in a chronological

3.They are flashback, back in the time when the people told a boy that his wife had been dead for nineteen years.

4. They occur in the low-paced.        

5.His behavior really unstable that in every years, the husband still believe that his wife will be come back, so the whole town has to throws a party to help him believe his wife still alive.


6.      The conflict in the plot is all about the physical, and emotion. The man is believes that his wife will come back, so he is waiting for her every year. No one could make him to believe that his wife has died for nineteen years already. This conflict can’t resolve. The people in the town still have to continue do the same thing over and over the same thing. It’s also more subtle and complex than I thought before I finished reading.

7.The climax of the story is when he knew that the man’s wife has been dead for nineteen years already. The ending of the story is unhappy.

8.      These story also have the unity. All the people in the town help the man every year with his dilemma. It’s so obvious that this story teach us about the unity. This story also relevant to the total meaning of the effect because the man’s intellectual that he’s cannot accept what the truth is and effect is that he have to live like this for a whole life with the people in town to help in also. it’s not lead naturally to the next because a boy doesn’t knew that man’s wife has been dead for very long time he just knew from the people in the town afterward.

9.      The coincidence also occur in this story when the party for the man’s wife have to happen every year over again and again until the man will death. This make us complicate and surprise when we read through the story. It’s really improbable, because I think that the man will finally accept the truth, but at the end of the story he still can’t accept the truth