05.03 Novel/Short Story Analysis Worksheet DIRECTIONS

Use complete sentences to respond to each question about your novel or short story.
When providing quotes from your text, include page numbers in parentheses.

Example:

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

The protagonist of my novel is a tough 16-year-old girl named Delaney, who is struggling to raise her little sisters.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.
“Although she was just 16 years old, Delaney had spent much of them providing for her sisters. She displayed the toughness—and weariness—of someone twice her age” (page 16).

Title of short story or novel

Author

Describe the setting of your novel or short story.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? Explain who is trying to do what.

Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed?

Provide at least two examples of dialogue in your novel or short story that support the type of conflict you have identified.

Explain how each example of dialogue supports the conflict.

Describe two examples of rising action events in your novel or short story.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answers.

Please help.
I don’t understand am I supposed to make my own novel? That’s the only question. Do I make my own story or am I supposed to go off of something?
Thank you