The narrator tells us about her name-what it means in Spanish and English, its history in her family and whether it suits her. It's late but they can't go to bed until they play the key game-the mother imitates the doorbell, the boy delays answering while pretending he is looking for the keys, and the father hides. "The Key Game" | Ida FinkĪ family is living in their third apartment since the beginning of WWII. She doesn't like the idea of her daughter going to "a rich people's party." Rosaura's mother works as a maid for Luciana's mother. Rosaura has been invited to Luciana's birthday party. As she starts to head home she makes a shocking discovery. Myop is a ten-year-old girl who is out exploring the woods behind her family's sharecropper cabin on a beautiful summer day. He can't blend in because he's driving a Mercedes. Moved by childhood memories, a man leaves his own affluent neighborhood and goes exploring.
One night he is challenged to cross the cemetery. When he walks home at night he goes the long way around the cemetery, even though it's cold. Ivan is known in his village as a timid, fearful man. Read "The Appointment in Samarra"(200 words) 35. This parable shows it’s impossible to avoid death.
Somerset MaughamĪ servant meets Death in a Baghdad marketplace and flees from him. Inside, a man smiled grimly as he turned from the bathroom cabinet, entered the primitive living room of his mountain camp, and crossed to a closet set in the pine wall.
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Outside, the woods lay in clear October sunlight: the autumn air was full of the sharp, exciting smell of moist, leaf-covered earth. You may see my books standing straight up on the shelves of libraries. I have told how states were formed and battles fought. Already I have written three histories of peoples. I worked my way through college and became an historian. He did not rise in the world as I have done. My father was a workman, a house painter. I came here to this town from another town in the state of Iowa. Read "The Man in the Brown Coat"(1,025 words) The man is comfortable with books and writing, but there is distance between him and his wife. "The Man in the Brown Coat" | Sherwood AndersonĪ historian writes while his wife works around the house and goes about her daily routine. His daughter gets left behind, but is rescued at the last minute by a young sailor. They are great to use as an introduction to different styles of writing.Ī rich Englishman and his daughter are sailing in pursuit of his hobby, collecting ancient blue china, when the ship catches fire and sinks.
These stories deal with a variety of themes and are easy to read. Here are some short stories that are appropriate for middle school students. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. The Chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. The narrator focuses on a painting of a young woman and looks up the story of when she modeled for the portrait.
There are many paintings with an accompanying book that describes them. The injured narrator seeks shelter in an abandoned mansion. The narrator is educated, weak, and Jewish he knows he won't be readily accepted by the soldiers. The narrator reports for duty to Commander Savitsky, leader of a Cossack Division of the Red Army.
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