Ch.1 discussion.

Pp.6
1. The personalities between the North Wind and the Sun are opposites. The North Wind, quick and to the point, tries to use brute force by blowing all his wind at the traveler. The Sun is more calm, thinks before it acts. The sun heats up the surroundings forcing the traveler to bear less items therefore dropping the cloak.
2. By blowing wind it makes things colder, as a result the traveler gripped his cloak closer. By holding on tighter, the wind could not blow it away. That is what made the method ineffective.
3. The sun heated up the surroundings, thinking before he acted.
4. The human served as the guinnea pig for the dispute. He was the judge and victim.
5. The moral explains how force cannot always be used to win, sometimes one must slow down and think of other ways to win, in this case persuasion.

Pp. 8
1. The exposition is the first sentence. Chuang Tzu uses two sentences to set up a dramatic situtaion.
2. He changed the subject because he already knew the answer. He does not answer the question imediately cause he wants the officials to understand his answer through the metaphor. Yes, the officials answering helps them to understand Tzu's reasoning.
3. He is calm, satisfied, and does not like to take all the time in the world.

Pp.19-20
1. Cash registers not facing the door. Older individuals carefully watching the registers.
2. He does not fully draw sammy as well as he does the girls. No.
3. Well when the girls first walk in, he starts to daydream over them, so one would start to think the story is going to be about the girls and sammy.
4. The feelings seem to grow, since he waits for them to walk in every day.
5. When the girls checkout and the supervisor walks in. The supervisor says "this isnt a beach, girls." This is the climax, because it all falls down to the end after this.
6. Sammy quit for two reasons, one was to try to get their attention and maybe bring them back for sympathy. Also, he might have felt his boss was too violent in his expression.
7. No. When the girls were directed from the meat counter, that might have been forshadowing of what was to happen.
8. Now he has nothing, no job and no girl he was dreaming over.
9. Its rare to see girls in bathing suits in a supermarket.