Story Elements Analysis Worksheet
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Story Elements Analysis Worksheet
After the Last Feed
At 4.42 pm, the rain began to drum on the roof of the kiwi house. Talia was helping her uncle Arjun, a keeper at Kōwhai Coast Zoo, check the paths before closing. Most visitors had hurried towards the gates. Only a few remained, including a boy in a yellow jacket who stood beside the viewing window, watching the kiwi enclosure. “Time to go,” called Arjun. Then the lights flickered and went out. Emergency lamps glowed along the path. From inside the enclosure came a sharp tapping sound. Arjun checked the control panel. “The outer gate is secure, but the keeper’s latch may not have caught. We need to check without disturbing the kiwi.” He reached for the radio, but it crackled and fell silent. Talia remembered the small service window behind the fern screen. She and Arjun could look through it without entering the enclosure. As they moved towards it, the boy in the yellow jacket appeared at the end of the path. “I saw a loose branch fall near the gate,” he said. “It might be blocking it.” Arjun asked him to wait by the visitor shelter, then used his torch to inspect the latch. The branch had landed across the outside path, not the gate. The tapping came from a loose sign swinging in the wind. The kiwi was safe, but the fallen branch had blocked the path to the staff exit. Talia noticed that the shelter’s rainwater barrel had been moved beside a low fence during recent repairs. She and Arjun carefully rolled it aside, clearing a safe route around the branch. Arjun radioed another keeper once they reached the main building. By the time the power returned, the rain had softened to a mist. The boy was waiting with his family at the gates. “I thought the tapping was the kiwi,” he said. “So did I, for a moment,” Talia replied. She looked back at the quiet enclosure. The problem had not been a dangerous animal at all, but a series of small surprises—and the choice to stay calm long enough to understand them.
Identify the elements
Use the story to identify how its main elements work together.
- A zoo in New Zealand during a rainy evening near closing time
- A family home on a sunny morning
- A forest campsite in the middle of the night
- A city street during a summer festival
- Protagonist
- Conflict
- Resolution
- The blackout, uncertain latch, and blocked staff path
- Talia and Arjun clear a safe route and contact another keeper
- Talia
- The narrator refers to Talia as “she” rather than telling the story as “I”
- The story includes dialogue between characters
- The events happen at a zoo
- The story ends after the power returns
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