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1. Compare and contrast the elements found in the short stories using a graphic organizer. Analysis of the elements are done occording to the criteria listed below: * Plot * Characters * Theme(s) * Setting * Moral values
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Short storyElements | BEQUESTS OF LOVE | THE MONKEY’S PAW | Exposition | At the beginning of the story the writer tells the audience about Karim, that bornhandicapped. He also tells us about the happiness of the family. They also havetwins, Fariq and Faroq. | Beginning of the story is at small parlour of Laburnum villa (“the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly”). The father (Mr. White) and the son (Herbert) are playing, while the mother (Mrs. White) sits knitting by the fire. Mr. White loses the chess game to his son. | Conflict | The story continued with Karim that always ask his mother an answerable questions.He likes to ask about death. Fariq, brother of Karim found that his brother wereobsessed of death by read the books about death.Faroq, brother of Karim, feels angry when her mother just let Karim wear the shoesthat was very specialto him | Major Marris tells them the tale of the Monkey Paw which can grant three wishes to three men.He then chucks the monkey paw on the fire and Mr. White, horrified, picks it up and keeps it.Mr. White wishes for two hundred pounds.Herbert goes off to the machinery at ‘Meg and Maws’ and doesn’t come back.A man comes the house and tells Mr. and Mrs. White that there son is dead and that Meg and Maws are providing a sum of two hundred pounds as compensation for their son’s loss.The son is buried. Then one night Mrs. White realizes that they can use the second wish to bring back their son.After Mr. White makes the wish there is a knocking at the door. | climax | The climax in the story is when Karim suddenly collapse in his bedroom. Then, hisfamily took him to the Dr. Tan’s clinic and he was placed at the observation wards.Not long time be passed, Karim lets

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