A Good Short Story
What Elements Makes Up A Short Story? What is a short story? What are the criteria necessary for a short story? What makes a good short story? After lengthy debates between many groups we've decided that it can not be decided by consensus, but by what we feel a short story must contain; different people may have different perspectives of this. This essay is devoted to portraying my group's conclusion to what a short story is. With reference to our critical criteria: plot, suspense, object and timeline; I will discuss whether the stories: Mr. Know All, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and By the Rivers of Babylon meets them. The plot is a series of events combined together to form a short story. The events are limited due to the length of a short story. A short story is also viewed as the "storyline" of the story. Each event occurs according to its order in the storyline. The three stories that I chose to analyze all contain the element of plot.In the story Mr. Know All, Max Kelada, a voyager on the ship traveling from San Francisco annoys all the passengers by entering their conversations uninvitingly. He frequently takes over the discussion due to his vast knowledge. Max was credited to knowing almost everythi
The people now live in tribes and have reverted to a superstitious religion. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the story begins with Walter Mitty daydreaming about being a commander in a hydroplane, he is guiding the plane away from a hurricane. They were arguing about the authenticity of the pearls Mrs. Understanding that in doing so would mean death, he continues only to satisfy his curiousity. This brought up some questions to the readers, is it real? When Kelada discovered that the pearls were genuine, the reader would have expected (suspense) that he would reveal the truth. ) He first dreams about being the commander of a hydroplane who has to get his crew out of danger from the hurricane. The ending point takes place with Mitty daydreaming. This shows us that Kelada knew that the pearl necklace was real and ends the story with Kelada really knowing everything. A technical glitch occurs in the operating equipment and he repairs it with a regular pen. Suspense is the substance in the story that brings up questions to its readers. An object can be any thing that is present in a story. In the story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, suspense is also present. It was about the authenticity of the pearls that Ramsay's wife was wearing.
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