Generic Structures

a. Orientation: The story is set on a dark and cold winter night in a big and dangerous city. A cheeky monkey is walking down a dark street and falls into a stinky sewer.

b. Complication: The monkey is trapped in the sewer and cannot get out. A foolish chicken comes along and the monkey tricks it into jumping into the sewer with him.

c. Resolution: The monkey uses the chicken to climb out of the sewer and leaves the chicken behind.

d. Moral value: The moral of the story is that one should not be greedy and should be careful of others who may try to take advantage of you. Additionally, the monkey's actions show that it is important to not leave others in a bad situation and to help those in need.

Language Features

a. Specific Hours: Night

b. Adjectives: dark, cold, winter, big, dangerous, cheeky, shivering, deep, creepy, fat, terrified, foolish, silly, stinky, warm, clean, brainless.

c. Noun Phrase: the big dangerous city, a cheeky monkey, a dark street, the bottom, stinky litter and goo, deep dark stinky sewer, a foolish chicken, the chicken's back, the cold dark stinky sewer.

d. Conjunctions: and, as, because, but, so.

e. Adverb of Time: later, while, just, now.

f. Adverb of Place: down, there, here, up.

g. Adverb of Manner: nicely, quickly, just.

h. Simple Past Verbs: was walking, tripped, fell, hit, was trapped, walked, saw, replied, decided, jumped, climbed, yelled, ran away.

i. Saying verbs: yelled, replied, asked, said.

j. Thinking verbs: None specified in the story.