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Creative Writing

Formal Critique

Formal Critique: Luz Mery Felipe

Title: The Wife’s Story             Author: Ursula  K. Leguin

Plot: The story is about a family of werewolves and how the wife finds out her husband is not completely one of them.

Since the husband was half human, is there any chance their children can turn out like him? 

Characters: the characters were well structured which added more suspense to the story and made it more interesting. At first the author made us think  that they were all humans and that the husband was somehow evil (when the daughter was scared of him) or even cheating on his wife but as the story went on we were able to find out that they were werewolf which was a twist some of us were not expecting. 

Was the daughter scared of her dad  because she had seen him as a human? 

Point of View: the point of view is from the wife’s perspective.

Why didn’t the author add the husband’s point of view? That would have showed us how the husband felt as a human. 

Setting & Context: the wife mentioned her husband’s dad lived in Whitewater Way, is that a place where others werewolves live or where humans live? 

Voice & Style:  after the third paragraph (which is when I found out they were werewolves) everything was more than clear. The author did a great job at describing everything, I was able to picture the whole story in my head especially the part where the husband becomes a human. 

Dialogue: The dialogues were one of the things that kind of confused us all, they made the characters look as if they were actual humans, more like a couple with some misunderstandings.