Reflection

Reading the story was very enjoyable, the story had surprising events and it was funny to hear what each character think about other character.

The story was surprising, moving and amusing.

The story surprised me when it turned out that the pearls that Mrs. Ramsay wore were real and not fake, and that Max Kelada knew about it but preferred to lie to her husband so he won't hurt her.

In the end of the story I was moved by the narrator, I was moved because he started to change his mind about Max Kelada and he started to like him.

I find amusing the way that the narrator behave to Max Kelada,I enjoyed reading how the narrator wanted to ignore him throughout the story.

Learning the thinking skills of Explaining Patterns and Uncovering Motives helped me understand the story behind each character and to understand the behavior of each character in the story. Explaining Patterns help me to understand the behavior of the narrator, it helped me to identify his personality, identify who he behave to another type of

person. In the story it is seen when he dislike Max Kelada just base of his luggage and base of his name,

with the explaining pattern we learn that he is a judgmental person and a close minded about new things.

The Uncovering Motives skill helped me understand the behavior of Max Kelada throughout the story.

Max Kelada did many things on the ship, "he managed the sweeps", "conducted the auctions",

"collected money for prizes at the sports, "he was everywhere and always".

With the Uncovering Motives skill I learn the real motives about his actions,

Max Kelada was not a typical English man, he was born in a colony of the British Empire he wanted to all the people who were on the ship to like him,

so he did all of those action so he will be accepted as a real English man.