Literary Log

 

Title: "The Wife’s Story"

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre: short story and science fiction

Setting: wood and forest

Point of view: first person

Main character: husband, wife, sister and children

Theme: A wolf turns into a man

Mood: suspenseful, sad, sentimental and scary

Literary Device: situational irony and foreshadowing

Summary: The wife’s and her family have good relationship and also with her sister. After the wife and her husband married. The wife’s sister moved out. And they also have children. And the man that the wife married to be a good man, but he was a wolf that turns into man. At the end, the husband turn into man and the wife’s sister kill him. For the wife’s sister was jealous of the husband. She was also a wolf too. Because of her jealous and the excuse of husband turn from wolf to man. She killed the husband.

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