CHEAT!

(ALLAN BAILLIE)

NURUL AIN SAZWANI BINTI

MATLEE
23

SITI KHATARINA BINTI

MAYER
2.3

HENDRIYAN BIN YUSOF

2.3

LOLEN OLEN TONGAI

2.3

Elements of short story :

Setting
Place:Australia
Time:20th century
Social:modern,
educated society

Theme
Creative writing
is not always
totally original
The cost of being
judgemental

Point of view

Third person
limited

Moral values

Honesty and
courage
Diligence and
perseverance

Messages
Do not be too
hasty to juidge
and conemn
others
Honesty will set
you free

Characters:
Main characters:
Lynne Webbings
Geoff bolder
Minor characters:
Mr velos
Mr matheson
Marge

Language and style

realistic,direct and
fast-paced
narrative
Use of interior
Literary devices:
methapor,imagery
interior monologue

SYNOPSIS..
Cheat! by Allan Baillie is a thought-provorking tale of lynne
webbing,who has an internal conflict after losing the HolmesWatkins Medal for short story writing to Geoff
Bolder.Initially,she is tense and impatient while waiting for
Mr.Velos to announce the result.Her interior monologue betrays
her secret thought and the fact that she really wants to win.geoff
realise that Lynne is very dissapointed and jokes about how the
winner was chosen.Lynne temporarily feels better,but then
discovers that Geoff had stolen the plot and main character of his
short story from a tale by William Bradburie ,a famous author.She
consider telling Mr Velos,the principal,that Geoff has
cheated.Then,she is called into the principals office.Mr Velos tells
her that Geoff wants to be disqualified even though he technically
did not cheat,.Geoff even apologises to Lynne after their meeting
with that principal.In the end,Lynne gets the medal she wanted so
much,but she does not feel very good about it.

ALLAN BAILLIE
Allan baillie born 28 January 1943 is an
Australian writer.he was born in Scotland ,but
moved with his family to australia when he was
seven.his first job was working as a Cadet
Journalist then he began to work as a journalist
working as the Melbourne Sun,The Telegraph and
The Australian Womens Weekly having studied
journalism at Melbourn University.Turning to
literature his books include Adrift,Little Brother
and The China Coin .He lives in Sydney,Australia
with his wife and two children.

SETTING
PLACE:

School (hall, library,

classroom, corridor,
principals office). We
can guess that the
story is set in
Australia from the
mention kelpie. a
kelpie is an Australian
dog breed which is
used for herding
livestock in a hot ,dry
country

TIME:
20th century

SOCIAL:

Modern,
educated
society where
people are wellread and
appreciate
talent in writing

PLOT
Exposition

-lynne is upset after hearing the results of the short

story competition.Geoff wins the medal which she
covets.Lynne feels that she rightly diserve to win
because of the effort and pain she put into crafting a
touching tale of a sheep dog in a flood
Rising

action

-Lynne thinks that Geoff had stolen the idea for his
story by a famous author,Williamn Bradburie.In her
mind,Geoff has cheat and therefore should be
disqualified and stripped of the Holmes-Watkins
Medal.She stuggles to decide whether she should tell
Mr Velos

PLOT
Climax

Lynnes classmates gather around Geoff after class one

day.They are having discussion about a career in writing
nversus a career in law. Lynne explodes and hints to
Geoff that she knows he has cheated
Falling action
Lynne is summoned into the principals office.Mr Velos
tells her that Geoff wants to be a disqualified for
cheating although his story is original.Mr Velos reveses
the positions and Lynne wins the Holmes-Watkins Medal.
Resolution
Despite the decition,Lynne is bitter and unhappy.She
mentally asks herself if she,too,had stolen the idea of a
sheepdog in a flood from another source.

CHARACTERS AND
CHARACTER TRAITS

Main Characters :

L
Y
N
N
E

W
E
B
B
I
N
G
S

A high school student,classmate of Geoff Bolder

Tense
anxious
high-strung person
Ambitious
very comparative
Persevering
imaginative creative
Observant
Intelligent
Sensitive
Insincere
self-righteous
judgemental
Jealous
vengeful

MR VELOS
Principal of the school Lynne and Geoff are studying
in
Reasonable, logical, perceptive-compares the story
by Geoff and Bradburie; can see that their stories
are not the same even though they mention an
elephant escaping in a park
Diplomatic and cautiious-talks to Lynne carefully
(he seem to be picking the word the words as they
lay on his tounge; apologies to both Geoff and Lynne
Desive- immadiately decides to reverse the positions
of Geoff and Lynne in the short story competition.

Minor characters :
R
E
D
L
O
B
F
F
O
E
G

Relaxed and cool

Has a good sense of humour
Observant,perceptive,sensitive and
understanding
Realistic and practical
Honest
Generous

MR.
MAT
HES
O
- From

master of lynnes class (a

teacher incharge of a from in an
English secondary school)
- Observant know about geoff
winning the short story
competition even though he has so
many students under his care
- Attentive asks lynne what she
wants to say because he qucikly
notices he half-standing

- Classmate

and friend of geoff

and lynne
- Outsoken- Marge was abusing
geoff for being so diveroted to
money

MARGE

LANGUAGE AND
STYLE

- The

is realestic,direct and fast

pased,which draws in the reader
- There is a lot of chalogue ,which
moves the action forward rapidaly

LITERARY DEVICE
A way of comparing two or more things
withouth using the words as or like lynne
meaning
-Walked slowlya away from her
disappoitment is like a physical thing which
she thurns away from
-The tips of her ears prickled with anger
meaning:it is as if the anger within her is
pricking her ears with needles
-tried to swallow the bitter teste from her
mouth

IMAGERY
Vivid desapoited to create a picture in the
mind usallyappeals to the five senses visual
image
-fidding with a pena
meaning:playing with a penal,an indicton of
discomford,nervousness
- she tried to shuffle away
Meaning:the word shuffle means to walk
slowly while dragging the feed on the floor ,
people usually shuffle when they are feeling
awkward or embarrased

TATILE IMAGE
(TOUCH)

-Lynne opened her eyes and gripped her

seat
Meaning:lynne is so tense thet she holds
on tigth to her GUSTATORY
seat
IMAGE
(TASTE)
-.everything tasted of cardboard that
night
Meaning:lynne`s disappointment is so great
that it even affects her tastee buds; any
food she eats is tasteless like cradboard

INTERIOR
MONOLOGUE
A character`s inner thoughts-the character
istalking to himself or herself in the story
withouth saying the though aloud
- Intertory monolougue is sometimes
presented in a disconnect way. In the
story,the interior monolouge of lynne is
presented in italies
For example:
-shut up,just stop it,shut up so we can all go
home.Please!
-

THEME

The cost of being judgmenental

-after the result of the short story
competition are relaesed, lnnye reads a short
story by Willam Bradburie about an elephant
running loose in a park.
-she teels bitter ,jealous and angry.these
estion are revealed when Mr Matheson
paraises Geoffs writing skils
-in mr voles office, Lnnye learns that geoff
has only used the idea of an escaped eireus
elephant but creted his own story.

-although she now reciven the covereted

medal,lnnye feels very bad.this incident makes
her wander if she herself had stolen the idea of
a sheepdog in a flood from somewhere
Creative writing is not always totally original
-writers get thear inspiration and ideas from
various soures
-personal expenionce ,people aroundthem, the
environment around them,world events

-Sometimes works by other writers inspirated

us.
For example :
Many of shokespenres works originated from
classical greele and roman migths and
legends.
Chares dickens novel were based on personal
experiences and observationg during the
industrial revolution.
-geoff got the idea of a ciccus elephant
running loose for his short story from william
bradburies book.later on ,lynne realises that
her own story may have been from another

messages

Do not be too hasty to judge and eandemn

others
- When lynne discovery that the idea for this
tale from bradburie,she judge and condemns
him for cheating whitout reading his story
first.
-her negative atitude makes her
angry,bitterand rengeful
-eventually,she realises that her self
judgemental attitude is wrong
Honestly will set you free
-lynne is dishonest.she hides her
disappointement and anger as resulit or

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