Literary Log
 
  1. Mood: scary, sentimental, suspicious
  2. Title: The Wife's Story
  3. Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
  4. Genre: A suspense story (short story, science fiction)
  5. Theme: A wolf turning into a man
  6. Point of view: First person
  7. Sestting: Wood, forest, cave
  8. Main Character: Wife, husband, sister
  9. Literary Device:  Suspense, situational, irony foreshadowing
  10. Summary:
    1. "The wife's story" is a suspense story.  In the story was not about a man turning into a wolf, but a wolf turning into a man.  The wife is a good wife that loves her family and has a good relationship with them.  The husband was a good husband, he was always gentle, didn't take things hard.  He didn't grouch and whine then thing didn't go his way he was just purely good to me, a hard worker and never lazy.  He had such a beautiful voice: and he'd lead off strong.  There was some talk about him, it's something runs in the blood they say and it may nver come out, but if it does, it's the change of the moon that does it.  Something comes over the one that's got the curse in his blood.  He's so weird, because he can turn to a human from wolf.  The sister is a wolf "she ran with her head low and mane high an dher eyes yellow as the winter sun" jealous angry evil horrifiying.  She loved with the wife and very close with her.  She don't like the husband because he's going to moved in to live with the wife, so she need ot move out.  One day, the wife saw th husband truning into a human, she'a think "I was last... scared suspicious thought he would turn back into an animal." But this is never going to happened, because the husband was killed by the sister, she bit him with her sharp teeth were in its throat.