The Countess and the Impossible

The Countess and the Impossible

Richard Y. Thurman

Theme: "Always want to do the best job possible."

Text Evidence: "It was the five dollar job I had to do not the four dollar one."

Summary: When the Countess offers a boy a job to mow her lawn. She lets him rate himself on his job and how much he should get paid on a scale from one to five dollars. She makes  the five dollar job seem impossible. With this goal soon set the boy does the "impossible".

Characters: The boy and the Countess.

Setting: A small town in Utah.

Conflict: Character v.s. self

Figurative Language: Metaphor.

Point of View: First person

Text Evidence: "I didn't dare not come on that next Thursday."