In the short story “Examination Day” by Henry Seslar. A 12 year old boy named Dickie is going in for an exam. This exam will tell of his intelligence‚ what he doesn’t know is that he might not make it out alive. Selser‚ uses Dialogue‚ Multiple points of view‚ and setting a tone to show Dickie’s strength of hiding how he is nervous. In the beginning of the story‚ the author is using a lot of intelligent craft moves. Seslar‚ uses craft moves such as dialogue throughout the story‚ the author use short
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Title: Examination Day Author: Henry Sleasar Text type: Short Story The short story Examination Day written by Henry Sleasar‚ is a story about young children being tested by the government to get knowledge of how smart the kids are. The government keep control of the kids and all the families. The government summon every kid that turns twelve‚ to come into their head quarters for an exam to prove how clever the kids are. The government summons a twelve year old boy in for his exam. The boy
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Read the story first‚ then carry out the tasks that follow. “Examination Day” By Henry Slesar The Jordans never spoke of the exam‚ not until their son‚ Dickie‚ was twelve years old. It was on his birthday that Mrs Jordan first mentioned the subject in his presence‚ and the anxious manner of her speech caused her husband to answer sharply. ‘Forget about it‚’ he said. ‘He’ll do all right.’ They were at breakfast table‚ and the boy looked up from his plate curiously. He was an alert-eyed
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Examination Day Essay Qs 2013 Choose a novel or a short story or a piece of non-fiction in which there is a character or a person with whom you feel sympathy. Say why you feel sympathy for the character and show how the writer makes you feel this way. Choose a novel or a short story or a piece of non-fiction which has a shocking or unexpected ending. Briefly say what happens in the story and then go on to show how the author makes the ending shocking or unexpected. 2012 Choose a novel or a short
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Sadaf Malik 10/20/14 Block 1 Compare and Contrast Paragraph The short stories "Examination Day" by Henry Seslar and "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut‚ both examine the idea of a world where governments have total control over its citizens. The main characters in the stories are Dickie Jordan and Harrison Bergeron. In "Examination Day" discrimination against intelligence is portrayed through Dickie who is eliminated because his "intelligence quotient [was] above the Government regulation."
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In the well-known short stories The Landlady by Roald Dahl and Examination Day by Henry Sleaser two surprising events occur. In The Landlady the surprising event is that we find out the landlady is a murderer and in Examination Day a surprising event is when Dickie is killed by the government because he has a high intelligence quotient. One event that surprises the reader in the short story The Landlady is when the landlady is suspected of killing her previous guests and probably planning on killing
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Examinations Certain forms of rhetoric may seem like they are set in concrete‚ but this is not true. The 75 Readings essays “The Plague‚” “Once More to the Lake‚” and “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” are labeled as a narrative‚ a description and an exposition respectively. The essays are much like human beings in that‚ labels are no more than mere words that help divide them into certain categories that they only kind of fit into. The lines that divide essays into their categories
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are inalienable. This means that no matter what law or rule is set‚ those are rights that should never be taken away from the people. A dystopian society will deny these rights‚ one of them being life. The stories Harrison Bergeron‚ Shades‚ and Examination Day‚ are all ones that have a common theme of the denial of life. A dystopian society denies individual rights such as life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. In Shades‚ by AJ Said‚ the Government hides colors‚ in order to prevent people from
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When people are more intelligent or more gifted‚ it is often perceived as a threat. Henry Slesar’s “Examination Day” is an extreme example of this‚ because the government is so threatened by intelligence‚ that they will do anything to keep people from being superior to others‚ including killing preteens. Dickie is a newly turned 12-year- old who must take an official government intelligence test‚ which little does he know will lead to his demise. In contrast‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is
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placed on testing these days. The need to prepare for tests and examinations is a restriction on teachers and also exerts unnecessary pressure on young learners. To what extent do you agree or disagree. Students nowadays are getting more stressed. We have to sit for lots of examination since we are small. Some of us even have their first examination at the age of four‚ when they are supposed to enjoy the beauty of the world without having the fear of failing an examination. It sounds crazy and ridiculous
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