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    Cuauhtemoc: A Short Story

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    Cuauhtemoc the cat sprinted alongside the Spirit of the forest‚ and his tail flapped behind him like a flag. Occasionally he would stumble--not just because the ground was uneven but because things kept erupting out of it. A fleet of deer‚ a flight of squirrels‚ mounds of loamy soil‚ mazes of dewy grass‚ a kitten crying out at the first light of the sun‚ a lion exulting over a meal. All the while‚ a chorus of golden birds followed them and sang a dizzy tune to the beat of their Mother. The Spirit

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    Short Story Ambush

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    unknown‚ according to the author of Ambush he said “I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy” he didn’t see the young man who was coming out of the fog as an enemy and did not hate him but went ahead to kill him with a grenade. If somebody is not an enemy then he should be a friend‚ if it was not a matter of life and death why kill him? We are forced by the laws we obey to disobey our own will. The story “Ambush” tells us about a soldier in war who never wanted to kill but did it

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    Hemingway Santiago shows an astonishing amount of perseverance. The Old Man and the Sea takes place in Cuba in the 1940s. Santiago‚ often referred to as the old man‚ is an old fisherman who has ran out of luck. He hasn’t caught a fish in 84 days when he decides to go out a little farther than usual. On this three day fishing expedition Santiago hunts down a huge fish in an attempt to break his 84 day hiatus. While on his adventure‚ the old man has several struggles he has to persevere through‚ and while

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    SHORT STORY AND ITS ELEMENTS A short story is a kind of prose fiction which has grown up besides the novel and which has its own important and recognised place in literature. It may be defined as a prose narrative‚ “requiring from half an hour to one hour for its perusal.” In other words‚ brevity is the key-note of a short story. It is a story which it is physically possible to read at one sitting. But its must not be supposed that the short story is a novel on a reduced scale. It has a definite

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    a gothic short story

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    memories with her husband that she cannot forget causing her to be really sad. It is later revealed in the play that her husband was with another man. He killed himself due her revulsion towards him. She states “by coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty – which wasn’t empty‚ but had two people in it...the boy I had married and an older man who had been friends for years...” (p. 95) and “I’d suddenly - said I saw you disgust me...” (p. 96). She loved her husband but he was

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    Short Story: Beowulf

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    As Nevaeh Williams flies above a town she overhears and old man‚ ”I know it’s so sad that they don’t get to eat much in that town especially the children but‚ hey what can we do.” As Nevaeh thinks oh my goodness the children! She flies down to ask the man‚ ”hello l think I overheard you saying something about people don’t get to eat and l was wondering if you could clarify that for me.” “Well of course‚ ”said the old man. ”There is an island on the Fouthwood Gulf were the people there are getting

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    | | |“Old Man at the Bridge”: A Symbolic and a Hybrid Text | |[Type the document subtitle] | |Ines Belkahla | |12/8/2012

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    Dominoe: A Short Story

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    Dominoe was in shock after hearing the story Liz just told her . The lady that died on the steps was not just a force by spirits ‚ it was the cause of pure drunkness and childness . Dominoe was in rage at her cousin and friends for doing that ‚ bringing a curse to the school and to themselves. Liz got up from her seat busting out in tears ‚ she explained how she had been watching herself and hoping the curse does not bring anything bad upon her. Alton apparently was claimed to have gotten more

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    Old man on the bridge by Ernest Hemingway Victoria Akers 1.B A. Comprehension questions: 1. Where was the old man sitting and why? The old man was sitting on a bench on the bridge. He has been evacuated from his home in San Carlos because of the Spanish civil war and because of the artillery. He has been walking a 12 kilometres‚ so he is tired. 2. What task did the narrator have to carry out? He had to explore the bridgehead and find out what point the enemy had advanced. 3. Why was the old man

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    Despereaux: A Short Story

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    you just focus?”. The thousand-eyed monster shifts and shows it’s eyes white‚ restless‚ ready to strike with the laughter of 25 tiny voices. I fight alone through switching numbers as 21’s turn to 12’s. I fight alone‚ slogging through the muck of short passages‚ while others soar above on Nimbus 2000 broom sticks with Harry. I fight alone until I meet a little mouse named Despereaux.

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