When the school bell rang‚ I was so glad that the day was finally over….. Boy‚ do I have a story to tell you. Have you ever been through a series of events‚ all happening in one day that makes you wish that you just want it all to be over? Well‚ I have. It all happened on June 14th. I will never forget that day because believe me; if you ever went through a day like that‚ you are not likely to forget about it that easily. On that fateful morning‚ I woke up with a start to a loud crashing sound
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The Tell Tale heart The old man was shrieking. I was blocking his mouth with a pillow until he stopped breathing. But then I started to panic‚ because I realized only at that moment that I killed a man. He will never see the Sun again. He will never see the moon‚ humans‚ lights‚ streets‚ houses‚ etc. he will never see the earth again. I couldn’t believe I did such a thing. I was terrified. But then I suddenly heard a police alarm. I was very scared. But what could they do to me if they didn’t find
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Prologue Jared Morgan sat on the edge of his bed sharpening his knife. Only sounds of the wind were heard from outside of his door. His blond hair hung in front of his worried green eyes as he glanced every so often out his window. Suddenly‚ a thud broke the silence. He got up‚ sheathed his knife in the dark brown scabbard in his belt and walked over to the window. The woman that was once outside enjoying the night sky was not. He looked down and saw her body lying on the ground‚ her throat slit
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I couldn’t sleep at all last night. The nightmare of the past events haunted me all throughout the night. The visage of the body being laid out and defiled in the middle of the cold‚ barren road was still within my head like looking at myself in the mirror. I was near the brink of collapse‚ unable to bear what had just happened. I stayed in bed till about midday when I woke up from my slumber‚ my face dry from tears. I wanted to know if Gatsby had come back and ask what happened when he was still
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seemed to adore her. One was a big‚ handsome popular and muscular and the other was a scrawny but sweet guy that tried her hardest to win her heart. Katrina said‚ "This sounds like a situation I was in. Let me tell you a story about how I ended up with my "husband"‚ Brom. The story goes something like this…" "So I was at a party at my fathers house. At this party were two men‚ one big strong man named Brom Bones. The other was a man named Ichabod Crane. He was a tall scrawny man who was very sweet
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III honors 14 October 2011 The Short Stories Quiet‚ But Aggressive Approach Novels are superfluous while short stories strive for flawlessness‚ ensuring meticulously picked details and succinct plots. The short story utilizes the complex and vivid words the English language has to offer‚ painting pictures in the minds of the reader‚ while the novel overwhelms the reader with redundant and arbitrarily picked language. Steven Millhauser says that Short stories illustrate the message or meaning
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5 Important Elements of a Short Story A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction‚ as you know‚ is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses‚ meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation. Novels are another example of fictional prose and are much longer than short stories. Some short stories‚ however‚ can be quite long. If a a short story is a long one‚ say fifty to one hundred pages‚ we call it
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ENL407 COURSE TITLE THE SHORT STORY QUESTION ‘The short story lacks criticism and lacks form’. Justify this statement using any three stories from THE JAMBULA TREE AND OTHER STORIES. The short was said to lack both criticism and form. These are some of the many false accusations that were levelled against the short story. These allegations‚ coupled with several others‚ have been responsible for the attitude of critics towards the short story. Critics considered the short story to be an inferior kind
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Short Story Assessment Choose one activity to complete from the short stories read in class. All of these activities require that you combine information provided with creative output. Do not change the facts‚ characters‚ or themes of the stories. However‚ you may fill in blank spots with added information where necessary. You will be evaluated in the following categories: Thinking‚ Communication‚ and Application. 1. Make a mobile of five objects important in at least two short stories
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Alternate Ending to “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford finished making his Burmese tiger trap and hid behind a charred tree stump. He heard a cry and ran forward. There in the pit lay one of Zaroff’s dogs. Hanging on to the edge of the pit hung Zaroff himself. “Congratulations Rainsford. You almost killed me‚ but not quite. If you so kindly help me out of this pit I will let you live‚” cried Zaroff with almost too much exasperation. Rainsford immediately knew something bad was going to
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