Genre
Children's literature
Setting and Context
On a random day inside a narrator's house.
Narrator and Point of View
The narrator is in the first person perspective.
Tone and Mood
The tone of the story is cautious and chaotic. Meanwhile, the mood of the story is exhilarating, overwhelming, and sympathetic.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist of the story is the narrator. The antagonists, on the other hand, are all of the hunches.
Major Conflict
The main character was overwhelmed by the number of hunches that were trying to get his attention. He couldn't decide on what he was going to do.
Climax
After all the trouble he had gone through, he finally found a solution. If they were more of him, he could do more things simultaneously; but, he did not realize that the more copies of him there were, the more chaotic it would be.
Foreshadowing
"Only you can make up your mind. You're the one and only one!"
"One of me could never do it."x
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Imagery
The author used drawing to accentuate the chaos created by the various hunches.
Paradox
The story sounds chaotic because of all the hunches but in reality, they boy and his puppy stayed put in his chair throughout the entire story. That is because the chaotic story unfolded only in his mind. He was so busy thinking of what to do that he ended up doing nothing.
Parallelism
"Even me and even you."
"..we'll trot to some real coo spot and we'll play a few video games!"
"...loud and clear,"
"It took a lot of shoving and hot bargaining and selling."
Metonymy and Synecdoche
In the story, the word "pants" refers to the narrator/boy.
Personification
The author uses personification by making the boy's thoughts/hunches into human-like characters. This is done to emphasize his disorganized thoughts and to portray the persuasiveness of every hunch.
