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A Pre-Reading Activities

Personal Connection
Have you taken care of a very sick person? How was it like? Describe your
experience.

Genre Connection
Short story is a form of literature that is written in narrative form. Short
story came into existence in the 17th century, although its origins are in
ancient story telling tradition. Short stories focus on a small number of
characters with a self-contained incident that focuses on evoking a single
effect. Short stories have all the elements, but to a lesser degree of a novel.
Short stories can be funny, dramatic, romantic, tragicomedic or satiric.
There is no set length for short stories. Some of the examples of famous
short stories are:
The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant
Diamond as Big as Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

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