Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. His dad heard him because he hadn’t gone up but a floor. Martin was terrified. she also stares at him, Martin moves into the apartment building and becomes scared of the elevator, Martin meets the fat lady in the elevator multiple times, The fat lady gets on the elevator and says hello to Martin and presses the stop button. So that’s all that he’s being- a coward; afraid, hopeless… Even though The Fat Lady was only a witness of his anxiety, Martin still had a right to be afraid. If you have read the story, then you know that it leaves off as a cliffhanger. He should end like the fat lady broke through the elevator and fell to her death...and tha is what you get for sitting on a couch and eating junk food.XD. ( Log Out /  After you've read multiple posts. Preview this quiz on Quizizz. I guess we’ll never know. Comment on at least one post. “I am here to get to know you!” he had to sit down all of the things in his mind were going crazy so many questions going through his brain. In class we read the short story, “The Elevator” by William Sleator. I’m not stating these thoughts because I can’t be bothered to choose a single conflict (because if I were to choose, I know what I would choose). “So you’re actually my mother? Comment. ( Log Out /  She would manipulate him with her cold eyes. Martin closed his eyes and told himself, she's not real, she's not real. He was shocked to see her and happy at the same time! He asked, “what do you want with me you fat lady,” she said. ( Log Out /  !” Martin asked. And on top of his father’s criticism, he is being bullied at school everyday. Martin, a thin twelve-year-old, felt nervous in it the since the first day he and his father moved into the apartment. Martin, a thin twelve-year-old, felt nervous in it from the first day he and his father moved into the apartment. Falling Action Martin's father needs to go to help one of his apartment neighbors with something. I have to do an assignment on how it should end. Martin yelled at the top of his lungs. 2 Favourites. Start with the last sentence of the story - "Hello, Martin," she said and laughed and pushed the Stop button. "She wore a threadbare green coat that ballooned around her; her ankles bulged above dirty sneakers. "These sentences show that the lady on the elevator has -- The idea of the elevator and The Fat Lady terrifies him, but that’s because all these people have convinced him that he is a coward and that he is worthless and afraid; these people have told him who he has to be. ( Log Out /  Perhaps it was the way mechanism shuddered in a kind of exhaustion each time it left a floor, as though it might never reach the next one. Are you going to be timid all your life?’ He managed not to cry until he got to his room- but his father probably knew he was crying anyway.”. They are all powerful conflicts on their own, but altogether they created the beautiful masterpiece that this story is. tells us how it looks and feels to be in it by saying its old, small, the fluorescent dim lights, dirty walls, shuddering room, max 3 people, she's big, scary, and piggish. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. As the elevator door came to a close, the This poor boy. The fat lady understood his fear and broadened her shoulders, “I am your mother, Martin.”. What could she possibly want from him? Of course he was always uncomfortable in … “Grow up, Martin.” The door slammed shut. also, she fills up the whole elevator and weighs it down. There is a very important question that I think we need to ask ourselves more often- why do I/we/they feel this way? After you've read multiple posts. The door sealed them in; the elevator started up. She was arrested and Martin was rushed to the hospital. how does the writer convey the atmosphere of the elevator? how does the writer convey the atmosphere of the elevator? Martin, a thin twelve-year-old, felt nervous in it from the first day he and his father moved into the apartment. I hope that I have lead you to believe that this brilliantly written story was not just about Martin and the elevator, but Martin and everything that surrounds him. If you have not read it, I recommend that you do, so that this will all make sense. The Elevatorby William Sleator It was an old building with an old elevator – a very small elevator, which could carry only three people. Fear is not a human, but it’s so powerful that it feels like a human. Of course he was always uncomfortable in elevators, afraid that they would fall, but there was something especially unpleasant about this one. “Hello Martin,” she said, and laughed, and pushed the stop button. a- noun. 5 Comments. Add to Favourites. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The Fat Lady, his father, and even the bullies. She sat down and her body took up the whole elevator. “I am not here to hurt you Martin, I am here to get to know you.” “Why would you want to get to know someone that you don’t know,” Martin said. Bare with me here. She would go into the elevator and stare at him through many floors up and down. By William Sleator It was an old building with an old elevator—a very small elevator, with a maximum capacity of three people. In the short story “The Elevator,” William Sleator uses fear and paranoia to drive his main character to a compelling resolution. Martin, a thin twelve-year-old, felt nervous in it from the first day he and his father moved into the apartment. Change ). Start with the last sentence of the story - "Hello, Martin," she said and laughed and pushed the Stop button. Something shaped Martin’s personality to be this way. “‘Afraid to be on the elevator alone?’ his father said, with a look of total scorn. STUDY. So I asked myself, why does Martin feel this way?