First-person Narrative and Story

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE STUDIES TMA COVER FORM EL121 The Short story and Essay Writing Part (I) STUDENT INFORMATION (to be completed by student)1. Name 2. Registration No3. Section No4. Tel. 5. E- I confirm that the work presented here is my own and is not copied from any source. Students signaturePart (II) TUTORS REMARKS (to be completed by tutor)Tutor nameSignatureDate TMA receivedDate returnedTUTORS REMARKS Mark Allocated to TMASTUDENT MARK 30For content a maximum of 30 marks Marks deducted for lang. communication errors a maximum of 6 marks Earned MarkEL121 The Short Story and Essay Writing AFTER TWENTY YEARS There are 2 types of point of view in After Twenty Years. The story is about loyalty and it is indeed full of passion. It describes how important is the friendships in the human relations. In this story Bob tells us how he faithfully kept his promise to come back to see his friend after twenty years based on a promise the two had made with disregarding the choices they have made in life. Even though the author did not give us a lot of details in the story it is absolutely twisted carefully written. I believe it is important to say that the story has a very surprise ending because I did not expect that the police man would be the friend until the end. The character of the police officer jimmy remained mysterious throughout the story. Jimmy respects his friend but respects the law and understands that the law is above everybody. In my opinion as a police man I would not arrest my friend and I would ignore the fact I met him and let this job done by somebody else when am not around. The tone of After Twenty Years is sympathetic as the police officer (jimmy) is sympathetic towards his friend Bob and is unable to gather guts to arrest him himself so he end up sending a man in a civil dress to arrest his friend out of sympathy. In this story the commentary is more dominant than the