Man from the south

Plot: The short story Man from the South Is a strange story. It's about two people betting wether a lighter would light 10 times in a row. The old man puts his Cadillac and the young American sailor puts his left pinky finger. 

Setting: The story is taken in Jamaica at a hotel. The hotel has fine garden with lawns and beds of azaleas and tall coconut trees. It was round six'o clock in the evening. 

Introduction: A man is sitting next to a poolside watching American sailors and English school girls with swimming in the pool. 

Rising action: An English girl and American sailor asked the old man if they can sit. The American sailor offers the old man a cigar and then he pulls outs a lighter and the old man says that it won't work in the wind but the American sailor said it always works. Then the old man bets that if the lighter lits up 10 times in a row he would give him his Cadillac and if he loses the old said that he would have to cut his left pinky off. 

Climax: The American sailor agrees to do the bet and then they go a hotel room. The American sailor lits up the lighter eight times.  

Falling action: Suddenly a old South American lady walks in and takes the knife out of the old mans hand and pushes the old man on the bed. 

Denouement: The lady tells the American sailor that the old man had made this bet many times before and he lost many cars and cut off forty- seven fingers. The American sailor puts the keys on the table and when the lady was picking up the keys he notices she only has two fingers on one hand. 

Characters: 

-Protagonist: The American sailor ( flat character)

-Antagonist: The old man ( round character)

- The English girl ( static character) 

Theme: A old man that likes making bets and he collects pinkys by winning the bets. He has forty seven pinkys so far. 

Point of view: The story is told in first person "I".