Character. Describe the protagonist's central preoccupation, and both explain how he or she tries to achieve it, and why he or she can or cannot achieve it. What stands in the protagonist's way? Does the protagonist change his or her attitude toward this preoccupation? How does the protagonist's attitude toward this central preoccupation reflect an essential quality about him or her?
Plot. Describe the climax of your book and explain how it relates to the central conflict. Be sure to mention where in your book the climax takes place (close to the beginning? toward the end? in the middle?), and whether that gives sufficient space for the conflict to develop and to be resolved.
Conflict. Explain how the central conflict in your book both advances the plot and contributes to the protagonist's development as a character. Be sure to identify the force or character that opposes the protagonist.
Narrative tone and point of view. Analyze the ways the narrative voice and point of view of your book are appropriate for one of its themes. For example, if your book's narrator is ironic, how does that tone reinforce one of its themes? Or, if the narrative tone is nostalgic, how does that sense of nostalgia help you understand one of the book's themes?
The whole text. Does your book, as a whole, work? Address this question by explaining how three of the elements of fiction come together, or fail to come together, in your book. It may be helpful to take apart your selected elements of fiction and put them back together again.
