The story follows a father taking care of his 9-year-old son Schatz who has a fever of 102 degrees. Schatz becomes worried after hearing at school in France that a temperature over 44 will cause death. Throughout the day his fever does not rise above 102 and his father reassures him, but Schatz anxiously awaits death. Finally, the father explains to Schatz that the thermometer used is Fahrenheit not Celsius, so his temperature is actually normal. Relieved, Schatz's worries fade away.

1. By 2th Group

2. • Title
A Day’s Wait
• Author
Written by Ernest Hemingway
• Theme
Fears

3. P L O T
• Exposition
The story opens as a father discovers that his 9-
year-old boy, Schatz, has a fever. The father sends
for the doctor and he diagnoses a mild case of
influenza. As long as the fever doesn’t go above 104
degrees, the doctor says, the boy will be fine, and
he leaves three different types of medication for the
father to administer with instructions for each.
Schatz’s temperature is determined to be 102
degrees.

4. Rising Action
• It is a wintry day with sleet frozen onto the countryside, and
the father takes the family’s Irish setter out hunting along a
frozen creek bed. Both man and dog fall more than once on
the ice before they find a covey of quail and kill two. The
father, pleased with his exploits, returns to the house.
• Upon returning home, he finds that Schatz has refused to let
anyone into his room because he doesn’t want anyone else
to catch the flu. The father enters anyway and finds the boy
still staring at the foot of the bed. He takes Schatz’s
temperature and finds it 102, as before. He tells Schatz his
temperature is fine, and not to worry. Schatz says he’s not
worrying, but he is thinking. When the father gives Schatz
his medication, Schatz asks if he thinks the medication will
help, and the father answers affirmatively.

5. Climax
• After attempting to interest Schatz in the pirate
book and failing, the father pauses, whereupon
Schatz asks him when the father thinks Schatz will
die. It emerges that Schatz has heard at school in
France that no one can live with a temperature
above 44, so Schatz thinks he is sure to die with a
temperature of 102. He has been waiting to die all
day.

6. Falling Action
• Schatz’s father explained that Schatz is not going to
die, because Schatz use Fahrenheit thermometer
which is have higher degree than Celsius
thermometer. So Schatz’s degree is normal now
actually.

7. Resolution
• Schatz gaze at the foot of his bed relaxed slowly.
The hold over him relaxed too, finally, and the next
day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little
things that were of no importance.

8. Characters
• Schatz’s father : wise
• The Doctor : wise and smart
• Schatz : innocent
Setting
• Schatz House
• Frozen creek

9. • Point of View
First Person point of view, because the
author uses pronouns such as ‘I’ and
characters name.
• Language Style
Figurative language = Idioms : “I thought
perhaps he was a little light-headed and
after giving him the prescribed capsule at
eleven o'clock I went out for a while.”
little light-headed means a bit dizzy

10. • Message
'Don't believe everything what you
hear'.
• Links To Real Life
One should not blindly believe
everything he is told and must
probe the situation himself.