THE END OF THE PARTY BY GRAHAM GREENE

Analyze that story based on instrinstic elements:

•   Setting : At the Peter and Francis house and Mrs. Henne Falcon’s House.

•     Characterization:

1. Peter Morton :  Peter is the stronger person and always protect his anxious brother.
2. Francis Morton :  Francis has phobia, afraid of the dark, anxious person.
3. Nurse : She is the twins’s nurse and she is not good and not bad person.
4.  Mrs. Henne Falcon : An elegant woman and she is kind too.
5. Joyce : An arrogant person because he likes to mock Francis if Francis was scared about the darkness.
6.  Mabel Warren : An extra cast in this story, bad child. 

• Plot:

The plot of this story is foreshadowing.

•    Conflict:

The night January the fifth, when Mrs Henne-Falcon was giving her children’s party, Francis had a nightmare, anticipating the horrors he would have to go through later that day when he was to play hide and seek in the dark. Just before the party Francis “felt ill, a sick empty sensation in his stomach and a rapidly beating heart, but he knew the cause was only fear, fear of the party, fear of being made to hide by himself in the dark, unaccompanied by Peter and with no night-light to make a blessed breach.”

•  Climax:

At the party, Francis tried to be strong, he faced this game. Then, when the lights are turned out for this game, Francis is literally scared to death. His brother tries to comfort Francis by touching his arm, only to find that was the final unendurable anguish for his petrified sibling. When the lights are turned back on, the adults find Francis dead.

•    Resolution:

Peter tried to make him calm down then he bombarded the drooping form with thoughts of safety, but he was conscious that the fear continued. “They are beginning to whisper together. They are tired of looking for us. The lights will go on soon. We shall have won. Don’t be afraid. That was someone on the stairs. I believe it’s Mrs Henne- Falcon. Listen. They are feeling for the lights.” Peter said. In the case above their heads a loose book shifted under a touch. “Only Joyce, only Mabel Warren, only Mrs Henne- Falcon,” a crescendo of reassuring thought before the chandelier burst, like a fruit-tree, into bloom.

Peter continued to hold the clenched fingers in an arid and puzzled grief. It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox.

•       Theme:

The theme of this story is the fear of the dark.

The central message of this story is Don’t be silly. You know there’s nothing to be afraid of in the dark. This story also tells us about the fear will disturb and scar our childhood, it can even kill you.

•   Point of view:

The writer as a third person in his story. He wanted tell us that there are parallels between his personal history and the story of Francis. In the story, Francis feels different and alone, and he is bullied by other children at the party because of his fear of the dark. The writer was also bullied during his childhood, and attempted suicide several times as a teenager.

 Make a summarize of that story :

The End of the Party tells the story of  the eleven-year-old twin brothers Francis and Peter who are invited to the birthday party of a school friend, the climax of which is always a game of hide-and-seek in the dark. Francis, however, has a fear of the dark, and will do anything not to attend. He pretends to have a cold, tells his parents and his nurse that he does not want to go, but is forced to attend anyway. When he came to the party, they started a game then the lights are turned out for this game, Francis is literally scared to death. His brother, Peter, tried to comfort Francis by touching his arm, and Francis tried to be strong and fight his fear, but he lost the hope and he thought that he can do it. Then,when the lights are turned back on, they find that Francis dead.