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Great American Short Stories II
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more!
80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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June 6, 2011
This story I became quite involved in. It is almost like a melodrama. The good man and woman, Mr. and Mrs. Council, are too good; the stars, Mr Haskins, his wife and children are too pathetic: and the villain, Mr Butler, is too mean. But those very factors are what makes this a good story.
Each of these people have been given exaggerated characters and conditions. This exaggeration got me caught up in their lives and the outcome. I wanted Mr. and Mrs. Council to stay as they were and as stated by Mr. Haskins, "There are people in this world who are good enough t'be angels, an' only hall t' die to be angels." Mr Haskins and his wife worked hard and a made a success of the farm so I wanted them to own the farm. Jim Butler didn't appear to ba a villain when the story began, but at the end when he charged more than double the original asking price of the farm, he was a dyed in the wool, snake in the grass villain.
This could make a good melodrama. I could cheer for the Councils and the Haskins and could boo and hiss Jim Butler.
Each of these people have been given exaggerated characters and conditions. This exaggeration got me caught up in their lives and the outcome. I wanted Mr. and Mrs. Council to stay as they were and as stated by Mr. Haskins, "There are people in this world who are good enough t'be angels, an' only hall t' die to be angels." Mr Haskins and his wife worked hard and a made a success of the farm so I wanted them to own the farm. Jim Butler didn't appear to ba a villain when the story began, but at the end when he charged more than double the original asking price of the farm, he was a dyed in the wool, snake in the grass villain.
This could make a good melodrama. I could cheer for the Councils and the Haskins and could boo and hiss Jim Butler.
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