Short Story Analysis
Name: Rachelle Balagtas & Anne Almazora 6A
Period: 2
Short Story
Tone
Split Cherry Tree
The Tell-Tale
Heart
Characters
The characters of
the story are Colin,
Sandy, and Emily
Barnes.
The characters of
the story are,
Professor Herbert,
students and/or
children, Dave.
The characters of
the story are an
old man, an
anonymous
person, and the
police.
Setting
The setting is held
in an apartment
and a bookstore.
The setting is held
in his school and
the field trip
where they broke
the cherry tree.
The setting is held
in the house of the
old man who was
murdered.
Pictures
Short Story Analysis
Name: Rachelle Balagtas & Anne Almazora 6A
Period: 2
Tone
The tones of the
story Tone are,
romantic and
humble.
The tone of the
story Split Cherry
Tree is
seriousness.
Conflict/
The conflict was
Sandy was deaf.
The conflict is that
The conflict is
the kids they split
when a person
up the cherry tree killed an old man
when they climbed who was innocent.
it.
The theme was
The theme is to
you should be
never follow
careful for what
anyone you don’t
you do because
you may get it
know.
back.
Theme
The theme was to
always believe in
love.
The tone is of the
story the Tell-Tale
Heart is
nervousness and
guilt.
Short Story Analysis
Name: Rachelle Balagtas & Anne Almazora 6A
Period: 2
Climax
Resolution
The climax is
when Colin and
Sandy met in an
apartment party.
After a few days,
Colin and Sandy
started dating.
The climax is
The climax is
when his dad
when the police
finds out that he came inside where
and his friends
she tricked them
accidentally split into not letting her
the cherry tree,
guilty.
and he came home
late.
The resolution was The resolution is
because of Colin’s
when the father
friend, Sandy and went to the school
him ended up
and became
fighting. Then,
friends with the
when he came
principal. Then, he
back, they broke
got Dave out the
up.
hook.
The resolution is
when she
confessed to God
what she did to
the poor, old, and
innocent man.