GSP168: Explain the Plot and Identify Which of the Seven Plot Types it Follows: Literature and Society: An Introduction Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

Short Story Menu:

• ‘A New Sensation,’ by Wang Gungwu (110-17)
• ‘The Running Game,’ by Tan Mei Ching (468-72)
• ‘Malaise’, Toh Hsien Min (588-89)

1. Explain the plot and identify which of the seven plot types it follows.

2. Discuss the genre by giving brief examples of conventions and audience expectations of that genre used in the text.

3. Create a Freytag analysis of the narrative to demonstrate your understanding of the concept.

4. Relate the story, setting, and characterizations in the narrative to the social context of modern Singapore.