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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1297 words (5.19 pages) in the essay titled 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 everything about anything. No one on the ship could beat him in a debate. One day, he had a bet with another passenger by the name of Ramsay. It was about the authenticity of the pearls that Ramsay・s wife was wearing. Kelada, after careful inspection,...
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Keywords: secret life of walter mitty, short story, my groups, bet, pearls, daydreams, rivers of babylon, storyline, careful inspection, different perspectives, critical criteria, ramsay, imitation, authenticity, voyager, debates, consensus, conversations
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