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."