coal, bean, thread, stream, plate, fire, tailer, lady, seamed bean, village, straw, bridge, broth/soup, needle, bean exploding, coal hissing, coal burning straw, straw laying down, tailor sewing, woman cooking, escaping/running away of the three, bridge breaks, bean laughs, coal falls in river, etc...
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Coal
formal cause: "O A of W is this coal a piece of coal?"
Answer: rock
material cause: "O A of W consists of this coal?"
Answer: dead plants, rock
efficient cause: "O A of W is this coal made?"
Answer: erosion, passage of time
final cause: "O A of W is coal used/what is it for?"
Answer: heat, cooking, fossil fuel
Coal Hissing
Material Cause: On account of what consists this coal hissing?
Answer: The coal is made of hot, burning rock, and the hissing is made of the coal touching water.
Formal Cause: On account of what is the hissing coal a coal that hisses.
Answer: The shape of the coal, the fact that it hisses when it touches the water (for all coals essentially do that), its dimensions, its heat, its ability to heat other things.
Efficient Cause: On account of what is this hissing coal made.
Answer: The source of the hissing coal is derived from the water taking on the heat of the coal and instantly boiling.
Final Cause: On account of what is this hissing coal used?
Answer: To heat the water, or on a more morbid note, to kill the coal.
... That was kind of hard... How do you determine the materials of an action? My analysis kind of changed the topic from "the coal hissing" to "the hissing coal."
PLATE
Formal cause:
On account of what is this plate a plate?
Answer:
It has a flat, typically round surface
Material cause:
On account of what consists of this plate?
Answer:
Ceramic, plastic, glass...
Efficient cause:
On account of what is this plate made?
Answer:
It can be made in the fire, through molding, and it can be made in a factory.
Final cause:
On account of what is this plate used for?
Decorative purposes and for putting food on.
Fire
Formal cause: On account of what is this fire a fire?
It gives off heat, smoke, and light; it is red, yellow, and orange; it consumes oxygen; and it burns.
Material cause: On account of what consists this fire?
Combusting oxygen in the form of a flame.
Efficient cause: On account of what is this fire made?
The hearth, spark, and straw.
Final cause: On account of what is the fire for?
To cook the beans.
broth/soup
formal cause: on a of w is this soup a soup?
A: in soup, one can add a variety of foods and spices. it takes the shape of the bowl/pan it is in.
material casue: on a of w consists this soup?
A: broth, foods, spices, and bean's family
efficient cause: on a of w is this soup made?
A:made of foods, broth, fire, spices and bean's family
final cause: on a of w is this soup used?
A: when one is hungry or thirsty, one makes soup for dinner/lunch; to fulfill hunger/thirst, kill bean's family
thread
FORMAL CAUSE: On account of what is this thread the bean's seam?
Answer: it is used to hold each side of the bean together.
MATERIAL CAUSE: On account of what consists this thread?
Answer: fibers?
EFFICIENT CAUSE: On account of what is this thread made? (actually, this is where I get confused. Do I say "On account of what is this SEAM made?") If that's true, then the answer would be:
From the need to put the bean back together, from the tailor's need to sit down and take a break.
FINAL CAUSE: On account of what is the thread for?
Answer: (more confusion) From a narrative point of view, it is meant to explain why all beans from then on have a "seam".
Eeek!
Bean Laughing
Formal Cause: On account of what is the laughing bean a bean that laughes?
Answer: The noise that come from the bean, the fact that it is laughing at something funny, and the shape of the bean.
Material Cause: On account of what consists this bean laughing?
Answer: The laughing is made from the humorous event seen by the bean, the bean is made of protein.
Efficient cause: On account of what is this laughing bean made?
Answer: the laughter of the bean comes from the event that the straw broke because of the hot coal and they both fell into the water.
Final cause: On account of what is this laughing bean used?
Answer: To get hurt and explode so an explanation can be made to explain how beans have seams.
coal burning straw
formal cause: On account of what is this coal burning straw a coal burning straw?
answer: a hot rock that burned a piece of straw
material cause: On account of what consists this coal burning straw?
Answer: The coal is a hot rock that can burn a dry piece of grass which is the straw
efficient cause" On account of what is this coal buring straw made?
answer: the source of the coal buring the straw is that the lady had heated the coal to burn straw
final cause: On account of what is coal buring straw used for?
answer: it is used to burn the straw.
the final cause is hard for this one, but i really liked golnaz's final cause
Bridge
formal: On account of what is the stream a stream?
answer: it is a thin body of running water
material: On acount of what consists this stream?
answer: water, 2 sides of land
efficient: On account of what is this stream made?
answer: erosion, time, rain
final: On account of what is the stream used for?
answer: the stream is there for the three to attempt to cross
stream**
Needle
Material Cause:On A of W is this needle a needle?
Answer: tiny, thin rodlike instrument, made of steel, has a hole at the end for thread, one end is pointy
Formal cause: On A of W consists this needle?
Answer: steel wire, metal,bone
efficient cause: On A of W is this needle made?
Answer: steel wire cut, ground into points, holes stamped into ends,head is smoothed and polished
Final Cause: On A of W is this needle made/used for?
Answer: stitch bean together
Tara i think i would have defined the materials of the hissing coal the same way you did. I don't think there is any other way to describe what makes up a "coal hissing" unless you were to just list the materials that make up coal.
Seamed Bean
Formal Cause: "On Account of what is this bean a seamed bean?"
-It is a bean that is held together by thread.
Material Cause: "On account of what consists this seamed bean?"
-Carbohydrates, thread, proteins.
Efficient Cause: "On account of what is this seamed bean made?"
-A bean stalk, nature, and the tailor
Final Cause: "On account of what is this seamed bean used?"
-To eat
some comments on the causes. please bring questions about certain ones with you to class. Here are some questions I had on aspects that need some more thinking:
On account of what is this coal a piece of coal? (formal cause) what is the essence of coal, either in the story or outside of the story?
Difficulty of the "hissing": deal with hissing separately from coal, except in formal cause, where you can ask, "on account of what is this coal hissing?"
On account of what is the fire made? answers here are good; a simple answer might also be the woman.
efficient cause of soup: good form of question. answer reconsidered--who is the maker of soup?
the thread/seam confusion: it is true that it is difficult because the seam carries all the complexity of the story, whereas the thread is just a thread. to answer for the seam, as it seems you want to do, remember that the question of the material cause is prhased with "seam" not "thread"--the questions of "thread" would not yet involve "seam" (remember the bridge/straw issue).
coal burning straw: perhaps clearer to phrase questions as--on a o w does the straw burn? and focus on the effect rather than including the cause...
i agree that golnaz's final cause is very nice.
the final cause of the stream could also be "outside" of the narrative..., but this one is also okay.
efficient cause of needle: (with reference to the "active factors" mentioned by professor schwab on the midterm study sheet) perhaps more pointedly, the sharpening and smoothing.
Ones left after me:
bean, stream, fire, tailer, lady, straw, bean exploding, straw laying down, tailor sewing, woman cooking, escaping/running away of the three, bridge breaks, coal falls in river, etc...
Village
1. Material Cause: On account of what consists this village?:
Answer: The village consists of people and buildings, animals, the people's belongings.
2. Formal Cause: On account of what is this village?:
Answer: This village is the way it is because of how its inhabitants built it. It is organized by how the villagers made it. It is also a village because it is a differentiated area from the rest of its surroundings, by a river, and perhaps woods.
3. Efficient Cause: On account of what is the village made?:
Answer: This village is made because one person started living there and a few more came and it became a village. It is deemed a village by law.
4. Final Cause: On account of what is the village used/What is it for?
The village is a community of people, so it must be used for company, for safety, for the fact that is not just the wild. The village is used as civilization opposed to the wilderness.
Woman Cooking (not sure if I did it right)
Formal Cause: On account of what is this woman cooking a woman cooking?
A:woman using fire to cook food, her method of dropping ingredients into a pan, her hunger
Material Cause: On account of what consists of this woman cooking?
A:Pan, bean, straw, coal, her hearth, fire, plate.
Efficient Cause: On account of what is cooking woman made?
A:Inspiration to cook a meal, pupil of previous chef (maybe family member)
Final Cause: On what account is this woman cooking for?
A:Her hunger and need for food.
I agree with ixchel account of the coal.
Bridge Breaks
Formal: O A of W is this bridge breaking a bridge breaking?
A: The bridge is splitting into two pieces.
Material: O A of W consists of this bridge breaking?
A: The bridge is made of flammable material that is burned, causing it to break.
Efficient: O A of W is the bridge breaking made?
A: The coal is hot and burns through the bridge made of straw.
Final: O A of W is the bridge breaking used for?
A: The bridge breaking is used to kill the coal and make the laughing bean explode.
Straw
Formal Cause: On AOW is this straw a straw?
- long, stalk or stem, from tree
Material Cause: On AOW consists of this straw?
- small parts from trees
Efficient Cause: On AOW is this straw made?
- it is made naturally from plants that are broken off or fallen from trees and picked up
Final Cause: On AOW is this straw used and what is it for?
- The straw is initially picked from the lady in handful to help start the fire on her hearth to cook beans, until one escaped and that straw was then used as a bridge as an escape passage for the other characters
Bean
For now I'm going to say it's a kidney bean so I can describe it better
Formal: "On account of what is this bean a bean?"
-oval, maroon, slight curve inwards on one side.
Material: "On account of what consists this bean?"
-proteins
Efficient: "On accont of what is this bean made?"
-growing in the ground
Final: "On account of what is this bean used?"
-for eating, running away, being split open, being sewn together
I think there is still confusion about if the efficient cause is how it's made, why it's made, etc.
Tailor
Material Cause: A tailor consists of a man, united with knowledge of tailor-ing, which makes him a tailor.
Formal Cause: A tailor is a man or woman
Efficient Cause: A tailor is created first by being born a man, and then by learning his craft
Final Cause: A tailor's purpose is to sew and craft clothing.
COAL FALLS IN RIVER
FORMAL CAUSE: On A of W is this coal that falls in the river a coal that falls in the river?
-ANSWER: Shape of the coal, the fact that it falls in the river, the fact that the coal's fall is caused by the breaking of the straw
MATERIAL CAUSE: O A of W consists this coal that falls in the river?
-ANSWER: The coal is a burning rock, and the broken bridge (straw) causes the fall of the rock into the river.
EFFICIENT CAUSE: O A of W is this coal that falls into the river made?
-ANSWER: While crossing through the bridge, the coal burns the straw, causing the bridge to break, and the coal to fall into the river.
FINAL CAUSE: O A of W is this coal that falls into the river used/what is it for?
-ANSWER: The coal that falls into the river is used to make the bean laugh so hard that it would explode.
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